FCC President CBS News’ Spend ‘hard to explain’ after posting a transcript interview with Kamala Harris
The Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Brendan Carr knocked CBS News’ behavior after the publishing of a network unregulated transcript interview with “60 minutes” with then President Vice Kamala Harris.
FCC posted a raw transcript and the recordings he received from CBS News about his October 2024. Seating with Harris, which was at the center of controversy.
“CBS behavior is hard to explain,” Carr said Fox News Digital. “On the one hand, CBS immediately published a mess of an active transcript of a recent interview with Vice -President Vance. They still refused to release the one with Vice President Harrris for months.”
Carr referred to CBS News’ Release of transcript From the anchorage “Face the Nation” Margaret Brennan’s Interview with Vice President JD Vance last month.
FCC posts CBS News ‘Raw ’60 minutes’ Transcript from Kamal Harris Interview
The Federal Communications Chairman of the Brendan Carr Communications said that the behavior of the CBS News “is difficult to explain” after the publication of the RAW transcript and recording of the interview network “60 minutes” with then President Kamal Harris. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“FCC has now opened the procedure and is looking for a public comment on the complaint for news distortion. Transparency is important here. The FCC review will continue and look forward to the public feedback,” Carr added.
CBS News did not immediately respond to the Fox News Digital request for comment.
Raw transcript Showed that CBS News broadcast only the first half of her response to “60 minutes” by Bill Whitaker about Israeli premiere Benjamin Netanyahu not to “listen” to the biden administration in a review clip that was broadcast on “Face the Nation” but aired only the other half her response during Primhethrima SPECIAL.
“But Prime Minister Netanyahu does not seem to listen,” Whitaker said in an exchange. “Wall Street Journal said he was – that your administration had repeatedly blinded Netanyahu, and in things, he rejected almost all the pleas of your administration.”
“Well, Bill, the job we did resulted in numerous movements in that region of Israel, which has greatly encouraged or the result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. And we will not stop doing it.
CBS news has been released separately by raw transcripts and unregistered shots from the interview on your website.
“We publish the same transcripts and videos of our interview with Vice -President Kamal Harris we have provided to FCC. They show – in accordance with 60 minutes of” repeated public beliefs – that a 60 -minute broadcast was not a PhD or deceive “,” CBS News wrote. In reporting news, journalists regularly regulate interviews – during, space or clarity. In the production of these changes, 60 minutes is always guided by the truth and what we believe will be most informed to watch the public – as long as they work in the constraints of television with broadcasting. ”
The net continued to say that she aired “a longer part of” Harris’s response to “Face the Nation”, while broadcasting “shorter excerpts” during Primethime Special, without acknowledging that no one that was broadcast in a review clip was presented on “60 minutes of 60 minutes .
“As the whole transcript shows, we have arranged an interview to ensure that most of the Vice President’s answers to 60 minutes, many questions included in our original show, while quite represented that answers. , added CBS News.
The raw transcript showed that CBS broadcast two different parts of the same answer that then President Kamal Harris gave to the letter “60 minutes” Bill Whitaker. (Screen shots/CBS News)
Carr ordered CBS News to surrender to an unregistered transcript as part of an investigation whether the network violated the FCC policy “Distribution of News” after the appeal filed.
“Policy says you can’t replace the answers to look like someone said something else entirely,” Carr told Fox News’ Dana Perino on Monday, adding that it would be “okay” if it was arranged in length and clarity .
In a review that was aired on “Face the Nation”, Whitaker set Harris about his issue of him about not “listening” to now
“Well, Bill, the job we did resulted in numerous movements in that region by Israel that have greatly encouraged or the result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region,” Harris answered in the clip ” Face the nation. ”
Harris was mocked by the conservatives because he offered Whitaker a long “word salad”. But when the same question was broadcast next night in temporary elections, A shorter, focused answer The Vice President followed.
“We will not stop following what it takes for the United States to be clear about where we stand about the need to end this war,” Harris said.
Critics have accused CBS News about editing Harris’s “word salad” answer In order to protect the vice president from a further return strike, and there were invitation to publish the network of the entire transcript after only shared transcripts of what was aired. CBS News refused to post a raw transcript at the time.
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against CBS News, which states that the election interference is due to broadcast two answers that have been broadcast from the “60 minutes” interview with Harris. (Left: (Photo Spencer Platt/Getty Images), Center: Shotshot/60Minutes, Right: (Photo Andy Manis/Getty Images)))
In October, Trump filed a lawsuit of $ 10 billion against CBS News, stating that he was an optional interview for his interview “60 minutes”, accusing the net of helping his democratic rival with a deceptive editing just a few days before the election.
“For the paper over Kamal’s weakness of the word salad, CBS used its national platform for 60 minutes to cross the line from executing judgment in reporting fake, deceptive news manipulations,” the lawsuit said.
Trump’s lawyers claimed that the changes made in an effort to “attempt to turn the ladder in favor of the Democratic Party, as the presidential elections of 2024 were heated – which President Trump leads – closer to his conclusion.”
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“The CBS of partisan and illegal works of choice and interference of voters through malicious, deceptive and significant distortion of news calculated to confuse, deceive and delve the public,” the lawsuit writes.
CBS parent company Paramount Global is reportedly considering resolving the lawsuit ahead of the planned merger with Skydance Media in the hope that it will prevent the potential retaliation of Trump’s FCC, which has the authority to stop multi-million dollar transactions. Shari Redstone, Paramount’s control shareholder, is allegedly advocating to deal with the president.
