CBS News employees are reportedly increasingly disturbed by the drama that took place during the interview “60 minutes” Kamal Harris at the center of a great legal controversy.
Puck News reported on Wednesday about “mixed emotions” from staff after commenting on “60 minutes” of executive producer Bill Owens, who told his colleagues on Monday that editing was “perfectly fine”.
” ‘Is Editing fine?? ‘One CBS News Insider asked rhetorically. “Obviously this is an unbridled mistake.” ” Puck News wrote. “Several sources said the deviation could be prevented and they claimed to be Owens and ’60 minutes’ It should be better worried to ensure a consistency between two interview clips, especially given the high roles of presidential elections and surveillance at that time at Harris’s appearance in interviews. “
Many in the net show their fingers on Owens “because he first left them vulnerable to this situation,” Puck News Readers said.
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)
According to a report, employees at a meeting on Monday considered issuing public statements “or even resigned”, some correspondents of Scott Pelley and Anderson Cooper ran. Cooper allegedly warned rebel employees that in the current weakened media landscape there is a small alternative in which they could produce such work.
There is also increasing anxiety because of the chances that CBS News is resolved by the lawsuit of President Trump in the amount of $ 10 billion, something that is the parent company Paramount, a shareholder who has controlled Shari Redstone and the employees “quietly rebelled”.
“All In the network, until the CBS News Wendy McMahon director, it opposes the settlement and considers it a rough impact of print, “Puck News wrote.
CBS News did not immediately respond Fox News DigitalRequest for comment.
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Insiders CBS News reportedly show their fingers at the “60 minute” executive producer Bill Owens for the green illuminating “reckless mistake” with an interview with Harris. (Piaras ó Mídheach/Sportsfile for collision via Getty Images)
On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission posted an unregistered transcript and the recordings that CBS News took over as part of an investigation into the agency on whether the network violated the “FCC” distortion policy after the appeal was filed.
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.
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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)
CBS News also posted a transcript and shots, defending how Harris’s interview was presented.
“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. , CBS News wrote on her website.
In a review aired on “Face the Nation”, Whitaker asked his question to Harris about Netanyahu not to “listen” 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.
President Trump filed a lawsuit of $ 10 billion against the news of CBS, who claimed to be an election interference with the broadcast of two answers that were broadcast from the interview “60 minutes” with Harris. (Left: (Photo Spencer Platt/Getty Images), Center: Shotshot/60Minutes, Right: (Photo Andy Manis/Getty Images)))
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.
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.
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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.”
