A law professor quoted by CBS News called Donald Trump sued for $10 billion over editing 60 minutes Interview with Kamala Harris “…on such a false basis that it is close to being valid as trivial.” but now, wall street journal The report said executives at CBS's parent company, Paramount Global, have discussed settling the lawsuit while “considering options to minimize conflict with the incoming administration” ahead of its government review. Merge with Skydance,
The newspaper reports this Incoming FCC Chairman And major sensor Brendan Carr warned officials last year that the review would be difficult because of the president's dissatisfaction with CBS News. He has also displayed that scene publicly, Said during a Fox News interview In November, “…CBS filed a transaction before the FCC. I am confident that the complaint of news distortion on the CBS 60 Minutes transcript is something that is likely to arise in the context of the FCC's review of that transaction.
trial The claim is that in airing two different edited versions of Harris' answer to a question about the war in Gaza, “CBS used its national platform on 60 Minutes to exceed the limits of judgment in reporting misleading, deceptive manipulation of the news.” ”
But rather than pursue a lawsuit and defend free speech against Trump's allegations that the network said were false and completely without merit, Paramount is considering following the example of Disney and the tech oligarchs that inaugurated the will join like mark zuckerberg,
owner of abc news agreed to pay $15 million Trump's Presidential Foundation and Museum to settle a defamation lawsuit in December. Zuckerberg sharply redirected Meta's policies to the right during his meeting with Trump, Allegedly “To arbitrate a lawsuit brought by Trump against Facebook and Zuckerberg in 2021 over the platform suspending Trump's account following the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.”