FCC vs. CBS

 Newsmax:

The Federal Communications Commission pulled a 60 Minutes on 60 Minutes.

In a complaint filed against CBS, the FCC charged that 60 Minutes and Face the Nation last year engaged in "news distortion" that involves "significant and substantial news alteration made in the middle of a heated presidential campaign." The FCC released transcripts of unedited CBS interviews with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.

I should note, the FCC move followed Trump's lawsuits against CBS News.

President Donald Trump declined to appear on 60 Minutes in 2024. But in 2020, he sat down with the show's Lesley Stahl, who began asking him if he was ready for "tough questions."

Forget tough. The 60 Minutes Harris interview, which aired in October, skipped the obvious question. The show's Bill Whitaker failed to ask Harris about then-President Joe Biden's declining mental faculties.

The FCC complaint stems from the editing by CBS's signature newsmagazine of remarks made by Harris, then the Democratic nominee for president. The edits made Harris appear more articulate and focused in the heat of the 2024 presidential campaign, even as critics were ridiculing her notorious "word salads."

Truth be told, most of the changes made by the show were minor and involved style choices. None of them altered her overall message, although they were, as the brief noted, "two completely different answers."

Problem is, a show once known for hard-hitting journalism has been exposed for selecting a quote by the Democratic nominee for president that made her sound better, not worse. It was the opposite of the 2020 Trump interview.

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CBS has often leaned to the left as they did in this instance.  Trying to clean up Kamala Harris's word salads is probably a real challenge even for the most adept. 

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