Not everyone believes that CBS journalists should celebrate the controversial "60 Minutes" interview at President Donald Trump's high-risk litigation center for Emmy nominations.
Announced this week the 46th News and Documentary Emmy Award nomination, "60 Minutes" landed in a few nods, most notably in its interview category for outstanding editors, its prime-time special featured then-chair of consultants Kamala Harris and her campaign partner, Minnesota State Government Tim Walz.
Trump is seeking $20 billion from CBS News and its parent company Paramount Global, what he calls a interview with Harris in how the network edited its interview with Harris in the days before the presidential election.
"CBS Evening News" executive producer Guy Campanile visited social media and announced the nomination as "microphone", but an insider didn't think the nomination would help things from a legal standpoint.
'60 Minutes' Kamala Harris accepts Emmy nomination at Trump CBS Litigation Center
The controversial "60 Minutes" interview by then-VP Kamala Harris was nominated for the Emmy Award for outstanding interviews. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images; Screenshot/CBS News)
“Ironically, some people who are '60 Minutes' are popping up champagne after the Emmy nomination – in the same interviews they were trapped in legal hot water. This reminds people that these awards are voted for by other journalists (not the public, not their bosses) instead of their bosses – not their lawyers, of course,” a source familiar with CBS News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News News
When both parties enter mediation to reach a settlement, many law and news enthusiasts have shown that the lawsuit is false if Paramount global controlling shareholder Shari Redstone doesn’t want to be in the planned multi-billion dollar plan with Skydance Media.
It is widely believed that Redstone wants to prevent potential retribution from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which has the power to stop trading. The ordeal CBS news staff is "on the edge" and sources believe the company has brought it to itself.
"When there are bigger, more important issues and forces that come into play, the threat to free and independent media is real, and this lawsuit is just one aspect of that. But the reality of the situation is that it's not a good interview, and that's how they put themselves in this predicament in the first place."
"This opens a vacancy for Trump, and he accepts it." "It's to make the wrench scratch a wrench and make the '60-minute' clock tick."
Insiders say
President Trump and others were unhappy with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” because it was controversial with the interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. (Left: (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images), Center: Screenshot/60 minutes, Correct: (Photo by Andy Manis/Getty Images))
The lawsuit stems from Harris's exchange with "60 Minutes" correspondent Bill Whitaker when he asked her why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not "listen" to the Biden administration.
Harris is widely ridiculed The answer to the "Word Salad" aired in the preview clip of "Facing the Country". But when Whitaker asked the same question on the Primetime Special the next night, Harris had a different, more concise response.
Critics at the time accused CBS news editor Harris of the “word salad” answer to protect the presidential candidate from further opposition until Election Day.
Earlier this year, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr CBS News ordered CBS News to hand over unedited interview transcripts to part of its investigation to see if the network violated the FCC’s “News Distortion” policy after filing a complaint. When the controversy first began, CBS refused to release unedited transcripts.
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President Trump is seeking $20 billion in a lawsuit against CBS and accusing him of intervening in a "60-minute" interview with Vice President Kamala Harris last year. (Left: (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images), yes: (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images), yes: Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg by Getty Images)
The RAW transcript and video released showed that both groups of Harris' comments came from the same response, but CBS News only aired her preview clip on the first half of “Face the Nation” and the second half in the Primetime special.
"60 Minutes" executive producer Bill Owens refused to apologize for the Harris interview at the time, resigning last week on the grounds that company pressure prevented him from maintaining editorial independence.
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung scoffed at the interview with the Emmy nominated Ordeal Center.
Zhang told Fox News that it was of course nominated for the best editor because it needed some serious talent to edit Kamala's answers to be coherent and understandable, and ultimately they still didn't do it. ”
According to Deadline, the Emmy nominee’s judgment is “a library of over 980 peer professionals on TV and a streaming/digital media news and documentary industry.”
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