‘Irony’ as Trump’s $20B lawsuit target earns Emmy nomination

Do not believe that CBS News employees should celebrate the controversial “60 minutes” interview in the center of the President Donald TrumpA high role lawsuit is followed by Emmy nomination.

Nominations for the 46th News Awards for News and Documentary Emmy were announced this week, and “60 minutes” landed several nods, mostly in the extraordinary interview category for his Primethime Special with then President Kamal Harris and her race colleague, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Trump is looking for $ 20 billion from CBS News, Paramount Global, for what he claimed to have been choosing in mixing in the way the network edited his interview with Harris in the days that led to the presidential election.

Executive producer “CBS Evening News” Guy Campanile has taken the social media to declare the nomination a “microphone drop”, but one insider does not believe that the nomination will help things from a legal standpoint.

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“It’s an irony, some people ’60 minutes’ champagne for nomination Emmy – for the same interview that landed them in legal hot water. The reminder is that these awards were voted by other journalists, not the public, not their bosses – and certainly not lawyers,” a source known to CO’s news Fox News Digital.

Because two sides entered the mediation in the hope of a settlement, many lovers of legal and journalism suggested that the lawsuit was false and that there would be a lot of worship about nothing if Paramount Global Controlling shareholder Shari Redstone did not want to settle a lawsuit before the planned association with more billions of billions with Skydance Media.

It is generally believed that Redstone hopes to prevent the potential retaliation of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which has the authority to stop the transaction. Ordeal has CBS News staff “on the edge,” and the source believes that the company has brought it to itself.

“We live in serious times when there are much bigger and more important questions and forces in the game. Threats of free and independent press are real, and this lawsuit is just one aspect of it. But the reality of the situation is that it was not a good interview and thus came into the first place in this advantage,” the source said.

“He opened it to Trump, and he took it,” they continued. “It was to shelter the key in the gears that make up an hour 60 minutes.”

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The lawsuit stems from the exchange Harris had with “60 minutes” by Bill Whitaker, when asked why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not “listen” to Biden administration.

Harris mocked To reply “Salad Salad” aired in a review clip of an interview on “Face the Nation”. However, when the Whitaker presented the same question during the Primheth of Special Next night, Harris had a different, summary answer.

At the time, critics accused CBS News of arranging Harris’s “Salad Word”, respond to the protection of the presidential candidate from further return kick he had led to the day of the election.

Earlier this year, the FCC chair Brendan Carr He ordered CBS News to hand over an unregistered transcript interview as part of the investigation whether the network violated the FCC policy “distortion of news” after the appeal filed. CBS refused to release an unregulated transcript when the controversy first began.

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The published raw transcript and the recordings showed that both sets of Harris’ comments came from the same response, but CBS News broadcast only the first half of her answer in the “Face The Nation” review and broadcast the second half during the Primethime Special.

The executive producer “60 minutes” Bill Owens, who at the time refused to apologize for the interview with Harris, resigned last week, stating the corporate pressure preventing him to maintain his editorial independence.

White House Communication Director, Steven Cheung, made fun of the interview in the center of the Passion that received the Emmy nomination.

“Of course he was nominated for the best editing because a serious talent for the Kamala response is needed in something that is coherent and understandable, which they have not yet been able to do,” Cheung told Fox News Digital.

Emmy nominated judging by “Pool of More than 980 Peer Professionals from all over television and streaming/digital media news and documentaries,” states Deadline.

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