“In a widly expectioned But Still Still Stunning Decision, Paramount Global Has Agreed to Pay $ 16 Million to Settle A Lawsuit from President Trump, Who Sued Over An Overview of Interview that 60 mintes 60 mins Under the Deal, AnnounCed Tuesday Evening, The Money Will Go to Trump’s Presidential Library. IT INVOLVES An AGREMENT FROM”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Under the Deal, AnnounCed Tuesday Evening, The Money Will Go to Trump’s Presidential Library. It Involves An Agreement from Paramount, Will Not Apologize As Part of the Settlement, to Release 60 minutes Transcripts of Interviews with Presidential Candidates after they’ve aired, accounting to a statement from the company.
By most Legal Observers’ Thinking, The Lawsuit Was Destined for Dismissal Because of Industry-Wide Norms Related to Editing Interviews. But The Deal Provides A Pathway to Regulatory Approval of Paramount’s Sink-Or-Swim Merger with Skydance.
Trump’s Suit, FILED IN OCTOVER, ALLEGED THAT THERE WAS “Deceptive Doctoring” in the Interview, with Clips of Harris Being Asked Buting Deliver Different Answers in a Preview Clip. Inclusion of a Longer Section of Her Response to ABOSTATION About the Conflict in the Middle East. CBS, Consistent with Practices in Other NewsRooms, Maintained that It Merely Edited Down Harris’ Reply for the Final Broadcast, and that She Was Answering the Same Question in Both Cases.
Accorging to Sources, Paramount Believes That Suit Passed a Threat to Skydance’s Deal to Acquire the Company, WHICH REQUIRS REGLATORY APROVAL, INCLUDING The TRANSFER OF OF OFFER OFFER. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Has SAID THAT 60 minutes Interview would come up in the commission’s review of the deal. The FCC Has Since Requested The Full Transcript and Urdeded Footage of the Interview.
And Clearly Executives Believ that the Settlement Boosts of the Chances of the Government Greenlighting the Merger, Thought It’s Always Posible That FCC Still Takes A CLOSE LOOK.
Inside CBS News, Rumors of the Settlement Sparked Anger and Resignation, Given Hown Common It Is In The News Business to Edit Down Long Interviews for Time Constraints. On April 22, Longtime 60 minutes Executive Producer Bill Owens Abruptly AnnounCed His Resignation, Citing An Inability To “Make Independent Decisions Based On What Was Right” for the Show.
“Our Parent Company, Paramount, is Trying to Complete a Merger,” SAID CORRESPONDENT Scott Pelley in the First Episode of the Newsmagazine After Owens’ Exit. “The Trump Administration Must Approve It.
And on May 19, CBS News and Stations Chief Wendy McMahon Also Resign, Telling Staff that “The Company and I Do Not Agree On a Path Forward.”
The Decisions from Owens and McMahon Sent Sent Shock Waves Throughout CBS News Amid Industry-Wide Concerns of the Government’s Campaign Against Media Over Acusations of Liberal Bias. In December, ABC News Settled for $ 16 Million A Defamation Lawyght by Trump in What Wat Was Viewed As A Major Consion for The Network.
60 minutes Correspondent Lesley Stahl Told David Remnick on The New Yorker Radio Hour that Team of Correspondents is Already Thinking About What Coms Next.
“I’M already beginning to think about mourning, GRIEVING. But I’M HOLDING OUT HOPE,“ STAHL SAID. “I KNOW There’s Going to be A Settlement. I KNOW There’s Going to be Some Money Exchanged. I KNOW that. And THEN WILL HOPEFULLY STILL BE AROUND, TURNING A NEW PAGE, AND FINING OUTING Like. ”
Stahl and Her Colleagues have already asked CBS leadership to make tanya simon Owen’s successor, Thought no formal Decision have been Made as of Now.
The Arguments Outlined in Trump’s Lawsuit, Which Didn’t Allege Defamation and Also Named Rep. Ronny Jackson as a Planetifif, Marked A New Roadmap for the President and His Legal Team to Chill Free Speech by Weaponizing the Courts. The compl of Advanced a Claim Over An Alleged Violation of Texas’ Consumer Protection Law Covering Decepive Advertising Ground in the Premise of the Network’s Segrim. IT’s A Way to Bypass The Legal Barriers to Asserting Defamation. HE BROUGHT A SIMILAR CLAIM IN DECEMBER IN A LAWSUIT AGAINST Pollster J. Ann Selzer, The Des moines register And Gannett, The Newspaper’s Parent Company for “Brazen Election Interference” Over Releasing A Poll Showing Harris Leading in Iowa, Which Trump Won.
CBS argued that it Editorial Judgments are “non-commercial speech that leies what kind of texas consumer Protection Laws. IT ALSO SAID THAT TRUMP SHOULD’VE BROUGHT The LAWSUIT IN A FEDALERAL CURT IN NEW YORK AND NOT Texas, WHERE JUDGES Are More Receptive to Conservative Legal Causees.
Trump’s Picks at Various Regulatory Agencies Have Emerged As Another Tool in His Arsenal to Steer Networks Away from Coverage Critical of Him and His Administration. Carr Has Threated to Revoke Broadcast Licenses for Stations Owned by Networks that’ve Drawn Trump’s Ire Under the Agency’s Authority to Enseure Public Airwaves. IT’s A Longhot Considering There Ansn’t Any TV Station Licenses Up for Renewal Untnewal UNTIL 2028 by Toning Down Adversarial Coverage Persist.