The media vs. Trump

 National Review:

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Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Paramount, has expressed support for settling Trump’s unprecedented lawsuit. Bill Owens, the longtime producer of 60 Minutes, resigned from the network last month because he believed his journalistic independence was being infringed upon.

Trump has repeatedly called out CBS News for its election coverage and recently criticized the New York Times for calling his lawsuit against the network “baseless” in its reporting.

“In other words, 60 Minutes perpetrated a Giant FRAUD against the American People, the Federal Elections Commission, and the Federal Communications System,” Trump said on Truth Social last month.

“Despite all of the above, and Paramount’s/CBS’/60 Minutes’ admittance to this crime and, with other similar corrupt removals of answers to questions, the Failing New York Times, which is Fake News both in writing and polling, claims that ‘people’ said that the case is baseless.”

McMahon took over CBS News in August 2023 and oversaw numerous controversies during her brief time as head of the network. Redstone rebuked McMahon when CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil drew the ire of progressive staffers for lightly challenging author Ta-Nehisi Coates’s inflammatory claims about the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Dokoupil was subject to ritualistic humiliation internally for the Coates interview and eventually succumbed to the pressure with an emotional apology.

Former CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge has criticized the network for censoring her attempts to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story and squashing a live interview with billionaire Elon Musk. CBS laid off Herridge last year and she now runs an independent newsletter.
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I think Herridge is a first-rate journalist and that CBS should not be censoring her.  We now know that the laptop in question was that of Hunter Biden, and it exposed material that the Biden administration would rather not have disclosed.  Too many in the media apparently thought that the laptop was damaging to the Democrat nominee's prospects so they tried to denigrate the story.

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In the alternative, they believed things that turned out not to be true. 

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