CBS News plans to follow a request to the Federal Communications Commission for united Transport of “60 Minute” interview with Kamla Harris that broadcast last year and the subject of the case brought by President Donald Trump against the network against the network became.
The network’s news division received an inquiry letter from the FCC, which was led by the Trump appointeer Brendon car on Wednesday evening. The Commission requested the interview with Harris to “Full, United Transport and Camera Feed”, aired in October at “60 minutes”.
The CBS News spokesperson said on Friday, “We are working to follow that investigation because we are forced to do legally.”
An FCC spokesperson did not respond to the immediate remarks request.
An agency’s Democratic Commissioner Anna Gomez criticized the request in a statement. “Come on,” he wrote. “It is an anti -retaliation move by the government against broadcasters, whose content or coverage is considered unfavorable. This broadcast stations are designed to create fear and influence the editorial decisions of the network. ,
Trump filed a case of $ 10 billion on the CBS last year and accused the network of misleading the interview with Harris, which benefited his candidature. Many media law experts rejected litigation as an unknown attempt to punish a news outlet, and the CBS called the case “completely without qualification”.
But in view of Trump’s election, the CBS’s original company, Paramount, has started discussing disposal with representatives of Trump, according to many people with knowledge of talks. Several Paramount officials believe that the suit disposing of the suit can help in approve the merger of Paramount’s Paramount Multibilion-Dollar for FCC with another company.
Sherry Redstone, a controlled shareholder of paramount, strongly supports the company’s effort to settle the trial, people said.
FCC is an independent agency, although Carr, its chair, has echoed many policy objectives of Trump. He has also promised to examine questions about the alleged political bias of some news outlets.
The “60 minutes” established in 1968, the country’s most popular news program and the CBS ‘is a foundation stone of the’ News Division. Network journalists have expressed concern over the possibility of their corporate parents to settle the litigation that they believe that the courts are easily winning.
CBS News last year refused several requests by Trump to release a complete transcript of Harris interview, which was aired on 7 October during a special choice episode of “60 minutes”. (The manufacturers also invited Trump to sit for an interview; the campaign eventually refused to participate, and objected to CBS plans to check their comments.)
The CBS performed a preview of the Harris interview, in which Harris responded to a question of reporter Bill Whitekar about the Middle East. The next night, in a long version of the interview to be aired in prime-time, Harris appeared to give a separate, more brief response.
The CBS stated that Harris had given a long reply to Whitekar, and its producers chose to broadcast a separate part in prime-time due to lack of time. This type of editing in the television news industry is specific. CBS has said that the interview was “not medical.”