CBS News in 'Widespread Distress' After Trump Settlement

Newsmax ^ | July 3, 2025 | Rooters Sewer Service

[Navy Patriot]

Rooters Sewer Service is distraught that they have been caught publishing CBS Disinformation and Lies.

[griswold3]

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

[alancarp]

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

[Navy Patriot]

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

[asinclair]

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.

[BenLurkin]

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.

[rktman]

Suh-weeeeet!

[johniegrad]

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.

[cuban leaf]

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.

[Navy Patriot]

...airtime (or space in printed publications) is precious.

Sounds like a personal problem.

Or it might be expressed as:

F*** them.

[Macoozie]

“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.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

[johniegrad]

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.

[Navy Patriot]

...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.

[stanne]

“ To be fair to CBS” ??

[rlmorel]

”…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?

[chiller]

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.

[gibsonguy]

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.

[ClearCase_guy]

CBS News prime time news magazine and its brand of journalism. = Democrat Propaganda 24/7

[Maine Mariner]

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.