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July 25, 2025 15 mins

Loren talks Paramount/Skydance merger and Colbert Show cancellation. The media and journalism landscape is changing rapidly and it’s kinda scary…

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
George.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren
came in, Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Lauren L. Rosa
and this is the Latest with Lauren L. Rosa. Now,
this is your daily dig on.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
All things pop culture, news, entertainment, and all of the
conversations that shake the room. Now hopping on into the latest,
it's a lot going on today, guys. Now, first of all,
we've been hearing a lot about this whole Paramount Sky
Dance merger and Donald Trump and you know, his.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Warm and not so warm.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Feeling towards some media outlets and media personalities. And we've
been hearing about it because our president himself, his kids,
they let you know when they don't like something, they
don't care what outlet it is, what platform it is,
who's a talking head, They call it out. And this
comes a week after the Stephen Colbert Show. The Late
Show with Stephen Colbert was canceled. Mind you, ratings are

(01:01):
flying out the roof, like there's no issues with that
show that would prompt any cancelation. For the most like
the most common person who doesn't understand TV ratings, doesn't
watch the show, just understands how big the platform is
and who Stephen Colbert is. And the fact that the
ratings are doing well can tell you that one plus
one does not equal to here. So people have been

(01:24):
having a conversation about this merger because people feel like
the fact that this merger that yesterday was announced, so
people were talking about it today.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
This merger has actually been approved.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
It's an eight billion dollar merger between paramount S Guidance
and this basically means that CBS broadcast television network, Paramount Pictures,
and the Nickelodeon channel will be included in the deal. Now,
Brendan Carr, who is a chairman of the FCC. So,
the FCC is the Federal Communications Commission. They are the

(01:54):
governing body over all things communication and media. So they
set the rules, tell you what you canna can't do,
where you can and can't do it, what you can say,
what you can't say, you know all of the things.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
So the chairman of the FCC made or released a
statement after this, and he said his name is Brenda Carr.
He said, Americas no longer trust legacy national news media
to report fully, accurately, and fairly.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
It is time for a change.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
That is why I welcome sky Dance's commitment to make
significant change at the once storied CBS broadcast network. He
then went on to say sky Dance has made written
commitments to ensure that the new company's programming will have
a diversity of viewpoints across the political and the ideological spectrum.
So basically, according to the FCC right, which is a

(02:45):
Trump administration FCC, they feel like the people, we the
people believe that you can't trust media anymore, that at
this point things are fake news, things are being distorted
to you know, have one certain narrative, particularly when it
comes to Donald Trump, right. I know there's always a
conversation about does the media depict to what he is

(03:05):
doing fairly? And I you know, to that, I say,
most of the time, with the media, I mean with anybody,
not just Trump. It depends on what outlet you go
to to you know, see how he will be depicted.
I you know, as a journalist, sometimes I feel like
it's not the most fair.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
And I'm not talking about Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm talking about just anybody in media and news in general.
I think that if you are a news outlet, you
should try your best to be as neutral as you can.
But I do think that in twenty twenty five in
reporting in because of the topics that we're dealing with,
the harsh realities. You know that the decisions of politicians
and entertainers and all these people, all these all these

(03:48):
people are making all these decisions that are affecting real
people in real time and are trickling down to people's
lives and making it where people can't eat, They can't,
you know, feed their kids, they can't clothe their kids,
they ain't got jobs. People are grasping toward places that
do have strong opinion and that are telling the truth
outside of just presenting what is fact is saying neutral,

(04:09):
And I'm not mad at that. I think people need
something that they can believe in. They want to hear truth.
They want to hear straight to you. They don't just
want to hear the facts, of course, they want to
hear the facts. They definitely do. And I think that
that is a big thing that's beensing and I think
that that is what the FCC is trying to get at.
That people don't believe that anything in the media anymore.
Is something that is actually well sourced, well vetted things

(04:32):
of that nature. But what I think is happening is
I think that with social media. Number one, I don't
believe that people are leaning into cable network as much
as they were anyway, But I think when they do,
people go to places where they can hear sharp takes
because they want to get the truth and they want
to get it honest, and they want to hear from
people that they believe feel like they do.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
So it's create a division. It's created.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
You know, you got the Fox News is on one side,
you got the CNNs on the other side. And they
do do the same thing, but in different ways and
on different sides. And I do think sometimes that that's unfair. Like,
for instance, when I'm trying to figure out something about
like what's going on in the world, let's take that
scene files. I do this thing where like I'll watch
Fox News for a bit, like an hour or two,

(05:17):
and then I'll go watch CNN for about an hour
or two, and then from there I take both sides
of it put it together to then create an opinion
or to educate myself on something. Because it's like they're
talking about the same thing, but it is a very
stark contrast and how they talk about it. But again,
a lot of this stuff is affecting people in their
real lives in a real way, so you know, it's
hard to remove opinion sometimes. But basically the FCC is

(05:42):
saying because of that, outlets are not trusted and we
want to come back in with this merger and take
over and really restore the trust in the media and
the headlines and you know, the news that you're getting
through your cable news channels and all of these things. Now,
a lot of people are really really scared of this merger,
especially because, like I said in the beginning of this
comes after Stephen Colbert's show, The Late Show being canceled

(06:04):
after he had you know, he's been very critical of
Donald Trump, and he had some remarks more recently about
CBS settling with Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
So people are scared.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
People felt like, you know, this is another way that
we are basically witnessing everything being taken over in control,
that this is going to turn into basically the media
like in more of like a cable network version of
Trump's truth Social.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Now, let me tell you guys this, right, like when.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Stephen Corbert like I had already knew or felt like,
when Donald Trump got back in office, there would of
course be you know, an attack on whatever didn't blend
or mesh well with his personal thoughts and feelings.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
We already knew that.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
But to be a person in the media and just
see how this whole thing is going, I asked at
my job every day, what y'all think gonna happen?

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Ya?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think you're gonna come this way because it seems
like he's been able to kind of railroad again anything
that opposes to be honest with you. And it is
scary to see because it's as simple as him like
and again, I think it's more of you have these
corporations that need certain resources to be able to run

(07:21):
and do business at a level in which they do it.
And when you know federal funding might be happening, or
you know, just certain things might be happening, you have
to stay in the graces with certain people. And I
really think that when it comes to joy Reads firing,
like you know, they talked about ratings with her as well,
but because they try to people try to talk about
ratings with the Late Show, and I'm like, the Lay

(07:42):
Show is like Huge, it's doing very well with joy Read.
There rare reports about her ratings not doing as well
around the cancelation of her show, which she refutes. She
feels like, you know, it was a subject matter in
what she decided to talk about. When it comes to,
you know, Donald Trump and some of the things that
his administration are making decisions on, it's just scary. It's
scary to see, regardless if you can prove or disprove

(08:05):
something with ratings or.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Not, there is a pattern here that we're seeing.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
And it's scary because although I do not believe, I
don't believe everything that I hear, nor do I agree
with everything I hear, I do think that it is
important to have a very start contrast and opinion in
the media as well as I think it's important to
have facts being presented by all people from all different
sides of things in media as well. For example, last night,

(08:30):
I was listening to Candace Owens. I don't listen to
her often, but every now and then I tune in
to listen to her because I'm a person that even
if I don't agree with your personal takes and how
you live your life or you're not even personal takes,
but how you report. I want to know what's happening,
and I want to know from all different sides because
I just want to be able to see a full
scope of some sort. I was listening to her talk

(08:51):
about Brigitte Macrone, who is the French president's wife who
is currently suing Candace Owens, because Candace Owens came out
and did a full multi part series about Brigitte.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Allegedly not being a real woman.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
And you know, she claimed or allegedly Candice Owen claimed
that there's incense happening between the French president and Brigitte.
But I'm listening to her, and you know, I'm like,
I don't necessarily believe what she's saying or not believe
or you know what I mean. I'm just listening with
very neutral, open ears, just wanting to understand her why

(09:29):
for doing the series, her wife, for continuing to stand
her ground even after this lawsuit. She's on there, she's calling,
you know, the French president's wife, but he and baby,
she's standing tin toes down. But after I got through
her response of her segment, she was responding to their
attorney being on CNN talking about the defamition lawsuit. One
of the things I was thinking about is how different

(09:51):
things are now with the fact.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
That people will just get.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
On a platform and say what they want, how they want.
I think years ago, it's like you knew who the
players were like, and that's who you listened to. You
knew who was to be listened to at which network.
It's so different now with social media. And I'm not
throwing Candace Owens in there.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
I listen.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
According to the Macarons, what she did was not true
and defamed character and the reputation all these things. According
to Candace Owens, she's a legend. She is telling the truth.
She's provided all the evidence she needs to provide, and
she's looking forward to her day in court because she
wants to see the evidence that she alleges. They haven't
presented her any evidence of anything that she said being

(10:35):
not true.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
They alleged something different.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
But I'm saying all this to say Candace Owens has
obviously branded herself in a way that puts her as
one of those people that, like, if you're on her
side of things and you believe in the ideas and
the things in which she believes, you know, she's a
go to player. But even me over here on the
other side, when I want to hear a sharp contrast

(10:57):
and opinion, I know to look for candas. I know
to turn on Fox News. I know you know what
I mean, Tucker Carlson. With social media, we have so
many different voices and opinions, it's kind of scary a
little bit because it's like, you don't know unless you
know what makes the most sense. And now you got Ai,

(11:18):
you got all these things. And then we have, you know,
the Trump administration coming in with this new merger, and
you know, people are afraid that that is going to
be controlled. And Trump is a legend that there was
a Kamala Harris sixty minute interview that was edited in
a way that was very deceptive to the sixty minute audience.
And we don't know the truth on if it was
or if it wasn't because they settled out with him.

(11:41):
We're just getting to a point in time where we
really don't have It's like, who are our allies. Who
are the people making sure that people on both sides
are doing what they're supposed to be doing, that they're
listening to the FCC is the FCC is everything fair
they as well, still like, are they still this neutral

(12:02):
governing body? The fact that I can't answer any of
these questions and I'm in media should scare y'all because
it scares me every day. I think about this every
single day, like how crazy things are getting. I don't know,
I'm a bit nervous. But the women of the View,
they're never too afraid to take any shots at Donald Trump.
And that went down yesterday online as well, which I'm

(12:24):
I'm literally, uh, you know, I'll be crossing my fingers
and closing my eyes for them for you know, all
the women of the View, because the way that they
be going at it with Trump and his administration over there. Baby,
I'd be so nervous for them. I'm like, y'all, don't
see what he out there doing to the people. I
get it, tell the truth. I'm here for the truth.
But I just be nervous for them. I completely do.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Y'all know that they've had a beef for a while.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
This week, a White House spokesperson came out and suggested
that the longtime talk showed the View could be coming
to an end. Now. This comment they made for the
person from the White House comes after CBS canceled the
late show is even Coo Bear. There's been conversations around
which shows will be next, because Trump himself said Kimmel
should be next.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Now they're talking about The View being next.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
But the women on the View responded and basically said
that Trump would.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Just be talking and that he's jealous. It's a whole thing.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
And in the midst of all of this, right you
have Donald Trump Junior who retweets because it was tweeted
out that The View was going on hiatus, that they
only had one more show after one of their shows
this week. Now, typically talk shows take hiatuses. It's a
time for the guest list to re rack up. It's
a time for the personalities on the shows to get

(13:36):
arrest because this is really a tough job, it is,
and you're there every single day. You never really can
turn off. So an outlet called The Blades had posted
that Joy had announced that The View was going on
a hiatus. During the episode, they say, we only have
one more show after this. Here comes Donald Trump Junior
reposting the tweet, saying, this seems to be a major

(13:57):
win for humanity and common sense. Come to find out,
I don't think he knew when that posted that it
was just a hiatus, but outlets had to go and
clear up, like, no, the View is not going nowhere.
It's just a hiatus that they take every year in
August and then they return. But it's scary that you
even got to clear that up because the ratings of
the view are so good because people like the opinion,

(14:18):
they like how real it is, like, they like the
affect that them girls.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Ain't scared and I ain't mad at them.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
But it's scary that you even have to clear that
up because it's like it seems like there's one common
denominator here. You say certain things, you do certain things,
then you got to answer to the people, and then
people would snatching people up air left and right, ratings
high and everything. I'm just a girl in the media
trying to make my way, build my career, and it
seems like there's an open attack on us, y'all. Let

(14:47):
me know what y'all think. I'm Laura l Rosa. This
is the latest with Laura L.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Rosa.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Lowriders. At the end of the day, there's always a
lot to talk about. If you guys could be anywhere
with anybody discussing it, but y'all choose to be right
here with me. I will see you guys in my
next episode. You know I appreciate y'all.

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