CBS pays Trump in settlement of biased-editing lawsuit
Trump’s on a roll.
Here’s the agreement reached in his lawsuit against CBS for deceptively editing a Kamala Harris interview to make her look better:
Paramount Global and CBS agreed on Tuesday to pay President Donald Trump a sum that could reach north of $30 million to settle the president’s election interference lawsuit against the network.
Trump will receive $16 million upfront. This will cover legal fees, costs of the case, and contributions to his future presidential library or charitable causes, to be determined at Trump’s discretion.
There is an anticipation that there will be another allocation in the mid-eight figures set aside for advertisements, public service announcements, or other similar transmissions, in support of conservative causes by the network in the future, Fox News Digital has learned.
I suspect that’s nothing much to CBS. But still, it’s a victory for Trump. And apparently they are also agreeing that in the future they will post entire transcripts for interviews with presidential candidates.
More:
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and eight Democratic colleagues sent a letter to Redstone in May asking her not to settle the lawsuit against CBS News, which they called an “attack on the First Amendment.” They called the potential settlement a “grave mistake” and “a blatant attempt to intimidate the media and those who speak out against him, President Trump.”
The letter also stated “presidents do not get to punish or censor the media for criticizing them” in the United States.
Nobody censored anyone – except for CBS, which censored (that is, made editorial decisions that were somewhat deceptive) the words of Kamala Harris. Trump wanted full disclosure of her words; how is that censorship? And he used a courtroom to duke it out with CBS. Of course, Trump has a lot of power as president. But CBS has a lot of power as a major network, and it has used that power over and over to put its finger on the political scales in favor of the left.
“…how is that censorship?…”
Heh, the ONLY answer to that is…”Bernie Sanders”…along with the rest of the Democratic Party (with, alas, all too few exceptions) living in their own private, topsy-turvy, clown world, propped up by their fellow screwy degenerates in the MainStream Corrupt Media…
Remember when NBC edited what George Zimmerman said in the Trevon Martin case?
What are the chances any of the major networks or cable news (other than Fox) mention this?
@neo: I suspect that’s nothing much to CBS.
I’m sure not.
However, the producers of “60 Minutes” and their superiors at CBS may tread more carefully in the future on account of the money and the scandal.
Winning!
@ huxley > “However, the producers of “60 Minutes” and their superiors at CBS may tread more carefully in the future on account of the money and the scandal.”
Except that they didn’t tread more carefully after the Dan Rather Memo putdown, or at least not for very long.
But in that case, the exposure of their hit job on Bush II didn’t cost any money.
They even got a movie casting the network as Truth Telling Heroes.
And if the only news covering the settlement is Fox, then there is by definition no scandal (just like Saint Barack’s Administration).
You may still be right, but only because of the money.
Here is the Dan Rather “scandal” as reported by CBS in their mea culpa.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-look-back-at-the-controversy/
There is no explanation given for the pile-on of the other MSM, but perhaps it was a case of trying to make hay off of a competitor, AND/OR a time when the left-right divide was neither so big nor so fraught, to the point where now all the legacy media circle their wagons around a beleaguered comrade.
It occurs to me that the Obama years may be the major inflection point when the MSM changed from competitors to conspirators (although there was always at least a hint of coordination on coverage of political activity).
I suspect that most of Neo’s readers are aware of the events cited in this post.
https://www.heritage.org/political-process/commentary/obamas-scandal-free-administration-myth
The media’s ninja-style art of concealment was raised to the 11th degree for the Biden administration.
Ray on July 2, 2025 at 4:50 pm said:
“Remember when NBC edited what George Zimmerman said in the Trevon Martin case?”
I learned of this CBS settlement via the NBC evening news yesterday, where they also mentioned issues with ABC [i.e., George Stephanopoulos?].
I wondered if NBC also had issues in regard to their own coverage that they neglected to mention – good to see they were not “pure” back then so probably not stellar now either [Chuck Todd, etc.??].