Posted on 02/02/2025 2:11:57 AM PST by Libloather
CBS News staffers are reportedly furious over parent company Paramount Global’s intent to reach a settlement of a $10 billion lawsuit filed by President Trump over a controversial “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Journalists at the Tiffany Network’s news division are up in arms as Paramount chairwoman Shari Redstone green-lighted talks with the president’s representatives over a payout, the Status newsletter reported on Friday.
Then-candidate Trump filed a lawsuit in October in which he accused the long-running investigative program “60 Minutes” of manipulating an interview with Harris in a way that was unfavorable to him.
Insiders told Status that both CBS News president Wendy McMahon and “60 Minutes” executive producer Bill Owens are strongly opposed to settling as staffers fumed that a payout could have negative ramifications for press freedom.
Legal experts also have dismissed the lawsuit as meritless.
“There is absolutely no reason, from a legal perspective, for CBS to settle — this is a ridiculous case,” First Amendment attorney Theodore Boutrous Jr. told Status.
Nevertheless, Redstone, the 70-year-old daughter of the late media mogul Sumner Redstone, is believed to be eager to put the legal saga behind her in order to boost the odds that Trump administration regulators will rubber-stamp a merger between her company and Skydance Media, according to the New York Times.
The Post has sought comment from CBS News and Paramount Global.
The heiress to the Redstone family media empire, who is the controlling shareholder of Paramount Global and its parent company, National Amusements, also stands to profit handsomely from the merger.
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In the digital age video editing is non destructive. The original digital file is never actually cut. Making a copy of it is mere seconds and because of the clock that necessarily is on the file any diddling will be evident.
If I were Trump I would take half a billion of this money and put it in a suitcase in $1000 bills. With a phalanx of reporters in tow, take it to Tish James and ask her to keep an eye on it while her case goes through appeals. Then when Trump wins appeal, come back and ask for the suitcase back.
Oh, and, the suitcase has a MAGA sticker on it.
Hey, if the CBS staffers are so damn upset they should quit and find a job at some other liberal @$$ kissing media outlet..........if they could find any that were hiring instead of firing. I bet if all of the fuming staffers quit, the management at CBS would have very big smiles at the reduction in payroll.
$10 billion would build several presidential libraries for President Trump.
I’m surprised that the NY Attorney General isn’t charging CBS with violating federal campaign laws. This looks like a slam dunk compared to the Trump non-disclosure case brought for similar reasons. CBS obviously edited the tape to boost Camela’s election campaign.
Yep. Walter Cronkite was one of the largest purveyors of propaganda. He had the absolute trust of most of the American public and fed them lie after lie.
Where did you find that? It’s magnificent!
Ronald Reagan should be on there beforehand
There is “free press” and there is libel.
As a publisher, be sure as to what you print or air.
I saw the one that said Obama Head planter; OOOPS I thought it was a URINAL and I had to get rid of that 6 pack.
Cronkite was just another COMMUNIST, glad he’s DEAD!
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