Céline Dion, Spike Lee, Alfonso Cuarón, Lilly Wachowski or John Waters are among the 2,500 members of the Writers Guild of America, a guild that groups writers and writers of film, radio, television and digital media, who sign an open letter denouncing what they consider an “authoritarian assault” of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, against the media. independent. They directly mention the fusion of Paramount and Skydance and the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as part of that pattern.
The text accuses the White House of restricting “the stories that are counted and the jokes that are made” and of “trying to silence criticism” through millionaire demands, citing as an example the fusion of 8,000 million dollars between Paramount and Skydance, the dismissal of Colbert – one of Trump’s greatest critics – and their attacks on the NPR stations. Cancel news and television entertainment programs that criticize it in the Late Night, as has recently happened with The View. ”
The letter maintains that Trump’s “authoritarian attacks” violate freedom of expression and press and that contravene the first amendment of the United States Constitution, which guarantees these rights. “We are a scriptwriter union, television writers and journalists who have been built on the firm belief that the bold story of stories, brave comedy and unwavering reporterism are indispensable in a free and democratic society,” defends the writing.
