Posted on 05/02/2025 8:26:25 AM PDT by DFG
It got “60 Minutes” sued by the man who became president of the United States. Now it’s up for a major award — for precisely the same aspect of it that so enraged Donald Trump.
Last fall’s “60 Minutes” story on Kamala Harris — the subject of Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS — was nominated for an Emmy Award Thursday for “outstanding edited interview.” Trump, in his lawsuit, complained that the interview was deceptively edited to make his Democratic election opponent look good.
The annual News & Documentary Emmys will be awarded in late June. “60 Minutes” is competing against interviews with singer Celine Dion, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Pope Francis and WNBA star Brittney Griner.
The fallout over the Harris interview still hangs over CBS News. The news division claims to have done nothing wrong, but its parent company, Paramount Global, is reportedly negotiating a settlement with Trump.
Many CBS News journalists oppose a settlement. Former “60 Minutes” executive producer Bill Owens, who has fought against such a deal, resigned last month. Owens cited in his resignation the corporate restrictions placed on him in the wake of the Harris story, which is also the subject of an investigation by President Trump’s FCC chairman.
Trump complained about the interview again on Wednesday in a Truth Social post. This time, his anger spread to The New York Times, which in a story on Tuesday said that “legal experts have called the suit baseless and an easy victory for CBS.”
“They don’t mean that, they just have a non curable case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,” the president wrote, saying he’s looking into potential legal action against the newspaper.
“The New York Times will not be deterred by the administration’s intimidation tactics,” the newspaper said in response.
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This is my shocked face.
More!
Fake News Has No Shame: “60 Minutes” Picks Up 13 Emmy Nominations Including Segment Where They Selectively Edited and Spliced their Kamala Harris Interview before Election
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/fake-news-has-no-shame-60-minutes-picks/
Best Deceptive Editing is a category of the Emmy awards?
I wonder what’s next. Maybe that 60 Minutes report will win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The "major award" speaks for itself.
Either that or The Bee bought AP.
They’ll give the judge the Nobel Peace Prize like they did Barry Sotero.
The MSM is all about poking Trump in the eye without considering their own (shrinking) credibility. Kind of like how they ignored Trump’s iconic failed-assassination pic (”fight, fight, fight”) and went with a Biden picture as the best photo of 2024.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/was-chosen-photo-2024-tds-impaired-media
“outstanding edited interview.”
LOL!
The Ministry of Truth is proud to honor Winston Smith as its 2025 recipient of its coveted golden “Greasy Weasel”.
Unfortunately he is unavailable to receive said award RIP Winston.
BTTT
Because of course it is.
They deserve an award to make Kommie sound coherent.
“Best Deceptive Editing is a category of the Emmy awards?”
You’re killing me Smalls!
The left uses awards to advance their messaging, there have been times when I correctly predicted an Oscar nominated movie just from reading the description of the movie before filming ever started.
Someone should put together a list of the extraordinary amount of writing, TV, narrating, Oscar, and Nobel awards given to democrat presidents and first ladies going back to JFK, even their children are exceptionally awarded with such.
The news media isn’t even trying to hide that they are actively a part of the communist left and are rewarded for it...
Crap begets more crap
They should call this the Leni Riefenstahl Award for Best Propaganda Program.
Why not the Nobel Peace Prize?
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