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Longtime journalist CBS CBA Lesley Stahl admitted that she was “angry” at Paramount Global President Shari Redstone on how things are being addressed over the president Donald Trump lawsuit against the network on Friday.
The “60 minutes” journalist discussed a lawsuit that is underway and its effects on her program on Podcast New Yorker Radio Hour. She was thinking about the top producer Bill Owens, who stepped down in what he called “painful” experience after claiming that the network of refraining about what the story should be produced.
After the CBS News President Abrupt resignation Wendy McMahonShe called the situation in the “hard” network and partially blamed Redstone, which puts pressure on them in what seems to be the calm of Trump’s administration.
“That the newspaper organization is under corporate pressure – to tell the corporation a journalistic organization:” Do it, do it with your story, change this, change that, don’t run that piece. “I mean, he steps on the first amendment, stepping at the press,” Stahl said. “It walks on what we are advocating. This questions me whether any corporation should have news. It’s very uncomfortable.”
Lesley Stahl “60 minutes” described her feelings because of long -standing producer Bill Owens with New Yorker. (Screen shots/CBS News)
Still, she refused to use the word “restlessness” to describe the situation, although she revealed that there was a consideration for journalists to leave “massively” after Owens resignation. Stahl added that there is a sense of “fragility” in the press thanks to things like Trump’s “frivolous lawsuit” and a lack of confidence in the media.
“The pain in my heart is that the public does not appreciate the importance of free and strong and firm printing in our democracy,” Stahl said. “Even fathers have recognized that we have to have a strong fourth estate in order to believe that our chosen officials have been responsible and continued to clean the system. It seems that the public does not want what we do as part of our public life.”
She predicted that Paramount Global, the CBS parent company, would eventually be resolved with Trump to complete the merger with Skydance Media. If that happens, she hoped that the new owners would “keep the freedom printing as a lighthouse”.
The interview was recorded before the news of Trump rejected a $ 15 million settlement for his $ 20 billion lawsuit. Fox News Digital confirmed that the president’s team requires at least $ 25 million and an apology from CBS News.
Trump is currently suing CBS News and Paramount for $ 20 billion on charges of interviewing the “60 -minute” interview with then -President Kamal Harris, who aired several weeks before the presidential election. (Showshots/CBS News; Reuters/Kent Nishimura/File Photo)
Last October Trump sued CBS News and Paramount for $ 10 billion on charges of interviewing the “60 -minute” interview with then -President Kamala Harris, which broadcast a few weeks before the presidential election (the amount since then jumped to $ 20 billion).
The lawsuit states that CBS News gently edited the exchange that Harris had with the “60 minute” of Bill Whitaker, who asked her why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not “listen to” Biden administration. Harris was widespread for the answer “Salad from the Word” aired in a review clip of an interview on “Face the Nation”.
However, when the same question was broadcast during the Primeral SPECIAL on the network, Harris had a different, summary answer. At the time, critics accused CBS News of the deception of Harris’s “Salad Word” to protect the democratic candidate from further return hit by the day of the election.
Stahl denied that there were efforts for Harris to look better and that the network simply broadcast two different halves of the answer. She claimed that a lawsuit was just driven to intimidate them.
Stahl expressed concern about the condition of the free press during this lawsuit against CBS. .
“What actually is behind it, in short, is [an effort] to cool us down. No harm. I mean, he accused us of arranging Kamal Harris by helping her win the election. But he won the election, “Stahl said.
Fox News Digital He reached for CBS and Paramount Global for the comment.
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Fox News’ Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
