Former NPR CEO Vivian Shiller criticized CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s show in a Saturday interview, in which a decision of a decision that the network said that the network stated that was created due to financial obstacles.
“It has not been a great week to speak the truth for free speech and power, without a doubt,” Shilar said on MSNBC.
CBS has criticized for this step, which many To settle the case brought by President Trump for $ 16 million, in terms of his decision earlier this month. CBS’s original company, Paramount, is currently demanding federal approval for a deal of merger with entertainment group’s skydance.
Colbert Cheese Later after CBS, the disposal in its monopoly calling the “Big Fat bribe” and indicating the attempt to merge paramount. Paramount lawyers gave first specialty trialWhich raised the issue with “without base in law or fact” with an interview editing an interview with former CBS Vice President Harris.
Shilar on Saturday admitted that the evidence about the cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Collbert” was “circumstantial”, but the move is still called “curious”. The network has said that the decision was inspired by financial concerns.
Former NPR Executive Officer said, “We also have to pay attention that Stephen Colbert again speaks the truth for power again.” “He has done it in a very bipartite manner for years, and Comedy and Parodi are an important part of a democratic ecosystem.”
Shilar’s comments come after a difficult week for NPR, the media organization that she used for three years. Republican voted zero out Funding for the corporation for public broadcasting, a non -profit organization that offers a small piece of funds to the National Headquarters of NPR and a significant part of revenue for Broadcasters member stations.
Shiller told This week NPR media reporter that he felt that the loss of federal money was unavoidable, and that the network should have prepared themselves better before the vote by the Congress.
“Any evidence-based news organization that reports seriously is being accused of leftist prejudice,” he Said“Journalism and government money in the United States – they are inconsistent.”
Shilar pulled out of NPR on her own controversy in 2011 Surrounding Federal money. The Republican broadcaster was threatening to cut the funding of Broadcasters when the video came to light a major NPR fundriser to attack the party workers.
The comments of a funderizer made for two conservative activists presented as potential donors inspired displeasure with the Republican of the Congress, and the NPR’s board eventually excluded the Schiller.
