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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CBS is under a court order to turn over the unedited tape of the Kamala Harris 60 Minute interview they doctored for her benefit which should take all of 10 seconds to do. They are stalling saying they have to prepare it and it will take some time.This is not about winning or losing the suit. This is about destroying the entire Democrat aligned MSM should it be released showing excactly how they lie and their duplicity stacking the deck in favor of the MSM Dem Party complex.Preventing its release is why they are willing to settle at this point.
Exactly right. If they are so reluctant to turn over the unedited tape, one has to wonder why. Maybe it is much worse than we now believe.
Trump will have the biggest, grandest, most beautiful presidential library... and the fake-news media is going to pay for it.
This is not about winning or losing the $10B suit. This is about
<><>destroying ***-kissing Democrat MSM buttboys
<><>showing exactly how they lie
<><>and their duplicity stacking the deck in favor of the Dems.
They are willing to settle at this point hoping
against hope to cover up their obsequiousness to Dems.
A settlement without a release should add a zero or two at the end of the number. A very interesting calculation for the two sets of attorneys to try to make.
I suspect DJT would rather see the full release...
Staffers don’t care about the money. It’s the behind the scenes communications amongst themselves and the Harris campaign on how they schemed to make something out of that abortion of an interview. Outing that would show them for what they really are - paid leftist word whores.
Perhaps they’re worried about criminal prosecution for making an in-kind campaign contributions. Trump was indicted (and convicted) for the ridiculous Stormy Daniels “Hush Money” matter. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Hopefully we get some clawbacks to Treasury from the Obama Foundation once DOGE digs into the mess at Treasury and the Nigerian “prince” Obama and Biden installed there.
always include “camera feeds” are also requested.
- The FCC, led by Trump appointee Brendan Carr, sent a letter of inquiry to the news company on Wednesday, requesting the “full, unedited transcript and camera feeds.” -
see Fox text at following:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4294170/posts
there is no telling what else might be extremely damaging to CBS in the video evidence!
And the Obama library gets struck by a lightning bolt and burns to the ground leaving nothing but ashes.
“ The Walt Disney Company reached a settlement over a defamation lawsuit related to comments made by ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, who incorrectly stated that Trump had been found liable for rape in the E. Jean Carroll case, rather than sexual assault.”
Is THIS where all that ‘Trump’ is a racist crap comes from?
That ‘sexual assault’ is probably bunk, too.
Hopefully we get clawbacks from the Obama Foundation once DOGE digs into the
Treasury mess connived by the Nigerian “prince” placed there by gullible Obama and Biden.
Outing their collusion w/ Harris would show them up
for what they really are - “paid leftist word whores.”
Love that.
Whatever happens in this case, isn’t it wonderful to have an administration that holds the lying leftwing media to account? What a difference from the last 4 woeful years.
The Eye of Sauron.
So there really was a famous and wealthy Nigerian "prince.";-)
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