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CBS News in 'Widespread Distress' After Trump Settlement
Newsmax ^ | July 3, 2025 | Rooters Sewer Service

Posted on 07/03/2025 9:41:45 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

Trump’s lawsuit alleged CBS edited Harris’s response to the Israel question "to make her look better" and that the action amounted to "election interference."

The lawsuit said CBS deceptively aired the edited, more polished version on "60 Minutes" and a different, rambling one on "Face the Nation."

Trump's lawsuit framed this as not just political bias, but as a form of commercial deception under Texas’s Deceptive Trade Practices‑Consumer Protection Act, arguing that CBS's editing gave Harris an unfair advantage.

"With this record settlement, President Donald J. Trump delivers another win for the American people as he, once again, holds the Fake News media accountable for their wrongdoing and deceit," said a spokesperson for Trump's legal team, the New York Post reported.

"CBS and Paramount Global realized the strength of this historic case and had no choice but to settle," the spokesperson continued. "President Trump will always ensure that no one gets away with lying to the American People as he continues on his singular mission to Make America Great Again."

One of the most important impacts on U.S. presidential elections of the Trump vs. Paramount lawsuit is the so-called "Trump Rule." CBS News and its affiliates agreed to make unedited interview transcripts, or, if necessary, full recordings, of presidential candidates, public.

One current "60 Minutes" employee who spoke with Reuters said that during a call Wednesday, newsroom staff expressed "widespread distress" about the settlement and concerns about the future of the CBS News prime time news magazine and its brand of journalism.

The staffer, who requested anonymity to speak publicly about his employer, said that while CBS News avoided the worst outcome in its settlement with Trump — an apology — the agreement nonetheless sets a "horrible precedent" in agreeing to make public transcripts of future interviews with presidential candidates.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbs; lawsuit; media; msm

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Rooters Sewer Service is distraught that they have been caught publishing CBS Disinformation and Lies.
1 posted on 07/03/2025 9:41:45 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Sorry for the settlement. I’d take full evidence disclosure and $1 to settle the case myself


2 posted on 07/03/2025 9:44:39 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: Navy Patriot

They are soooo lucky that Trump kinda let them off the hook with a relatively light settlement.


3 posted on 07/03/2025 9:48:46 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: griswold3

Well, the whining of the Media is music to my ears.


4 posted on 07/03/2025 9:48:59 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Navy Patriot
Let's set one thing straight: airtime (or space in printed publications) is precious. It's not uncommon for a news organization to select excerpts from interviews or actualities. The show 60 minutes stepped over the line by extensively micro editing the excerpts.
5 posted on 07/03/2025 9:49:08 AM PDT by asinclair (Indict DNC for RICO?)
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To: Navy Patriot

The so-called “news” media seems to think their job is not just to tell the people what to think (as the gal on MSNBC said) but to actually fool the people.


6 posted on 07/03/2025 9:50:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Suh-weeeeet!


7 posted on 07/03/2025 9:51:19 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Navy Patriot
the agreement nonetheless sets a "horrible precedent" in agreeing to make public transcripts of future interviews with presidential candidates

God forbid we should actually hear what they said.

8 posted on 07/03/2025 9:54:36 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Navy Patriot

To be fair to CBS, they need to edit some interviews to keep the segment from being boring or too long. However, if they had not abused that concept with Harris, they could still do that.

Now they have to be extremely careful how they edit ALL interviews. And rightly so. They are infamous for releasing edited interviews that give a completely opposite viewpoint than the one actually being made in the interview. That is, they usually edit the interview to make the interviewee look WORSE, to match the narrative, as far as I can see it, at least.

IOW, for SeeBS, this goes way further than just Trump. The lawsuit floodgates are opened - as they should be.


9 posted on 07/03/2025 9:55:00 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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...airtime (or space in printed publications) is precious.

Sounds like a personal problem.

Or it might be expressed as:

F*** them.

10 posted on 07/03/2025 9:55:17 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: asinclair

“by extensively micro editing the excerpts”

No, that’s not the issue.

They fabricated responses to feed a political narrative of their choosing. They didn’t report the truth, or the facts.

It wasn’t a hard “News” show, it was an opinion or infotainment broadcast, but the impact was the same.


11 posted on 07/03/2025 9:55:58 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: Navy Patriot

12 posted on 07/03/2025 9:56:44 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Macoozie
It wasn’t a hard “News” show, it was an opinion or infotainment broadcast, but the impact was the same.

Worse. It was free electioneering for the candidate of their choice.

13 posted on 07/03/2025 9:58:37 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: cuban leaf
...this goes way further than just Trump. The lawsuit floodgates are opened - as they should be.

There ya go, that should have been your first sentence.

Screw CBS, ... and their friends.

14 posted on 07/03/2025 9:58:59 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: cuban leaf

“ To be fair to CBS” ??


15 posted on 07/03/2025 10:02:05 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Navy Patriot
”…the agreement nonetheless sets a "horrible precedent" in agreeing to make public transcripts of future interviews with presidential candidates...”

How horrible. They won’t be able to lie, cheat, and deceive as easily.

Here’s a concept that would probably be new to them: why not just be honest?

16 posted on 07/03/2025 10:03:12 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: griswold3

Disclosure was the issue....it would have completely ruined their reputation as an honest purveyor of news. Lies, deceit, etc. ...all would have been laid bare.

Could not let that happen. It would hasten the end of CBS News, once the Tiffany Network.


17 posted on 07/03/2025 10:03:49 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead". (We'll go ahead))
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To: johniegrad

This was nothing compared to the four prime time all network addresses they gave traitor joe in the six months leading up to the election. Four all network addresses in prime time.


18 posted on 07/03/2025 10:07:22 AM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: Navy Patriot
CBS News prime time news magazine and its brand of journalism. = Democrat Propaganda 24/7
19 posted on 07/03/2025 10:07:38 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Macoozie

Just like Dan Rather et. al. fabricated the story about G.W. Bush and the National Guard. I use the word fabricate rather than forged. Forgery implied the existence of a real original document, painting etc. There was never such a document in the National Guard story.


20 posted on 07/03/2025 10:07:58 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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