{"id":5000,"date":"2026-08-19T09:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:09:32","slug":"the-last-wall-why-jon-stewart-is-untouchable-at-maga-coded-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5000","title":{"rendered":"The last wall: Why Jon Stewart is untouchable at MAGA-coded Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump has long made it clear that he wants Paramount to purchase Warner Brothers because its CEO, David Ellision has indicated that he will make CNN more sympathetic to Trump\u2019s MAGA movement. Yet apparently one anti-Trump fixture of Paramount is so popular, Ellison isn\u2019t going to touch him.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4998\">Judge smashes Trump\u2019s \u2018unlawful\u2019 $1 billion FBI headquarters scheme<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLateNighter reports that Paramount wants to keep Stewart on board, as his presence has renewed interest in the program both on television and online,\u201d reported The Daily Beast\u2019s Vic Verbalaitis on Monday. \u201cCompany executives consider South Park and The Daily Show two Comedy Central assets that keep the cable channel relevant in the age of streaming, Semafor reports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verbalaitis added, \u201cThe lack of confirmation on whether Stewart will extend his contract at this point in the year is nothing new. The outlet emphasized that the late-night host\u2019s last two contract extensions weren\u2019t announced until even later in the year: early November 2025 and late October 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, for his part, has made it clear that he will continue criticizing Trump even if doing so means Ellison eventually fires him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t compromise on what you do, and you do it until they tell you to leave,\u201d Stewart told The New Yorker\u2019s David Remnick in 2025 shortly before extending his Paramount contract.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4996\">This nightmare only ends one way for Trump\u2019s inner circle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThey\u2019ve already done things that I\u2019m upset about. If I had integrity, maybe I would stand up and go, \u2018I\u2019m out.\u2019 Or maybe the integrity thing to do would be to stay in it and keep fighting in the foxhole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Atlantic\u2019s David A. Graham reported earlier in August, Ellison is leveraging the friendship between Trump and his father, Oracle CEO David Ellison, to create a media empire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Ellison, who, along with his father, Larry, is a friend of Trump\u2019s, decided to use the new Trump administration as an opportunity to build a huge media conglomerate,\u201d Graham said. \u201cFirst, his company Skydance merged with Paramount. Taking control of CBS News, he installed Bari Weiss as editor in chief, seeking a leader who would appeal more to both the White House and to conservative viewers. But Weiss\u2019s makeover has so far looked like a flop: 60 Minutes has hemorrhaged staffers, and the Evening News has hemorrhaged viewers. Her proposition was that a slightly more conservative version of the mainstream media would bring the audience back to a struggling network, but that doesn\u2019t appear to actually be appealing to either MAGA viewers or legacy CBS watchers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cEllison has already moved on to an attempted merger with Warner Bros., reportedly promising administration officials deep political changes at CNN if the deal was approved by federal regulators. Ellison got approval, but now that deal is in trouble anyway. Facing an antitrust lawsuit led by the attorney general of California, Paramount agreed to pause the merger until a trial next year. Experts are divided on how likely Paramount is to prevail, but if the merger doesn\u2019t close by September 30, the company will owe Warner Bros. shareholders $7 million every day until it does. In a New York Times column last week, Ellison complained that people are drawing incorrect inferences about his politics, but his private views are beside the point: What is public is Ellison\u2019s willingness to play to the Trump administration\u2019s politics to build an empire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4995\">The surreal reason Trump doesn\u2019t care about the USS Lincoln<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ratings giant is too relevant to ruin, even as David Ellison reshapes CBS and pursues Warner Bros. to please the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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