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A longtime journalist CBS Leslie Stel confessed The lawsuit of Donald Trump against the network on Friday.
The 60 minutes reporter discussed the current lawsuit and its impact on her program on Podcast New Yorker Radio Hour. She was reflecting on the top producer Bill Owens, who left the post in what she called “painful” experience after he stated that he was holding back the network about what stories needed.
After the CBS News President Sharp resignation Wendy McMuhonShe called the situation on the “firm” network and partly accused Redstone of pressure on them of what it seems, reassuring the Trump administration.
“For the news organization to get under the corporate pressure – to tell the corporation news:” Do it, do it with your story, change it, change it, do not start this work. “This is walking with what we stand for. It makes me doubt whether any corporation should have a news operation. It is very unpleasant.”
“60 minutes” Leslie Stel described her feelings about the resignation of the long -standing producer Bill Owns from “New Yarker”. (Screenshot/CBS News)
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However, she refused to use the word “shock” to describe the situation Owance’s resignation. Stel added that the press has a sense of “fragility”, thanks to such things as the “frivolous lawsuit” of Trump and the lack of trust in the media.
“The pain in my heart is that the public does not assess the importance of the free and strong and rigid press in our democracy,” Steel said. “Even parents -the founders acknowledged that we need to have a strong fourth estate to prosecute our elected officials and continue to clear the system. The public does not want what we do to become part of our public life.”
She predicted Paramount Global, a parent company CBS, eventually agree with Trump to complete the merger with Skydance Media. When that happened, she hoped that the new owners would “accept the freedom of the press as a beacon.”
The interview was recorded before the news passed on Friday Trump rejects $ 15 million For his lawsuit for $ 20 billion. Fox News Digital has confirmed that the president’s team requires at least $ 25 million and apologies from CBS News.
Trump is currently sue for CBS News and Paramount for $ 20 billion for election charges related to the “60 minutes” of Kamala President Harris Vice, which appeared a few weeks before the presidential election. (Screenshots/CBS News; Reuters/Kent Nishimura/Photo)
Last October, Trump sued CBS News and Paramount for $ 10 billion for allegations of election interference related to “60 minutes” by President-Vice-President Kamala Harris, who aired a few weeks before the presidential election (the amount has jumped up to $ 20 billion).
The lawsuit claims that CBS News fraudedly edited the exchange, which Harris had with a 60 -minute correspondent Bill Witzer, who asked her why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not “listen” to Biden’s administration. Harris was widely made with the answer “Salad with the Word”, which aired in the previous video interview on “Face The Nation”.
However, when the same question came on the air during a special Print on the net, Harris had a different, more brief answer. Critics at the time accused CBS News of the deceitful editing of Harris salad to protect the democratic nominee from the further retreat leading to the election day.
Stel denied that there was some effort to make Harris look better and that the network just aired two different halves. She claimed that the lawsuit was only launched to intimidate them.
Stel expressed concern about the state of the free press during this trial against the CBS. .
“The fact that, in a nutshell, is (efforts) to cool us. There are no losses. I mean, he accused us of editing Kamal Harris in a way to help her win the election. But he won the election,” Stel said.
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Fox News’ Joseph Woolfson contributed to this report.
