The President of CBS News and the executive producer of 60 Minutes have have quit their jobs following the lawsuit filed against CBS for deceptively editing a 2024 Kamala Harris interview.
CBS is expected to settle the lawsuit soon.
https://thehill.com/media/5312467-cbs-executives-resign-trump-lawsuit/
Trump-related crisis deepens at CBS News

The departure of two top executives at CBS News in recent weeks has shaken journalists at the outlet and fueled speculation the network’s corporate parent will soon settle a high-profile lawsuit brought against the company by President Trump.

The resignation this week of CBS President Wendy McMahon came just weeks after that of “60 Minutes” executive producer Bill Owens.

The back-to-back resignations served as the latest sign that a brooding crisis for one of the country’s largest and oldest broadcast news networks is reaching an inflection point.

Though they did not mention Trump’s lawsuit explicitly as they announced plans to leave, McMahon and Owens made clear they were convinced they could no longer independently lead CBS, which has come under increased legal and regulatory threat from Trump’s administration.

“In some ways, it feels like Trump has already won this fight,” one Republican political operative told The Hill this week. “He wants to be covered positively by all of these networks, and this is a pretty clear sign his plan to intimidate is working.”

Trump sued CBS News and “60 Minutes” last fall over an interview the program aired with former Vice President Kamala Harris just days before she faced off with Trump in the November election.

As part of his $10 billion suit, the president’s attorneys argued producers for the program intentionally edited portions of the interview with Harris to cast her in a more positive, coherent light.

Paramount has indicated in public statements and legal filings it is prepared to defend itself from the president’s claims in court despite widespread rumors of a settlement.

Complicating matters for the massive media conglomerate, however, is pending business the company has before the Trump administration.

Paramount, which has taken massive Wall Street losses on linear broadcast assets in recent quarters, is working to secure a mega-merger with fellow entertainment giant Skydance.

The Paramount/Skydance deal is a transaction worth nearly $30 billion that will need approval from federal regulators who report to Trump.

After Owens left, “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley took the extraordinary step of alluding to the proposed merger on air and told the program’s viewers the following Sunday that Paramount had begun to “supervise” their coverage of the administration “in new ways.”

Shari Redstone, the longtime chair of Paramount and an executive who stands to make tens of millions of dollars personally on the Skydance deal, has been unhappy for weeks with CBS’s coverage of the administration and other issues, The New York Times reported earlier this month.

Inside CBS News, there has been a growing sense of dread and frustration that a settlement with Trump could be coming, at what many observers see as the expense of “60 Minutes,” the network’s premier news program.

Several staffers at the network declined to speak with The Hill on the record about the situation, though several reports have emerged in recent days laying out frustration at the network over the saga.

The resignation of McMahon and Owens are seen as important, too, in sending a signal.

“People in high positions in media have a unique ability to take a moral stand more than your average everyday journalist,” said Ben Bogardus, an associate professor of journalism at Quinnipiac University.

“Other CBS journalists could follow them, if they feel the pressure to cover news a certain way isn’t pulled back by CBS executives.”

A spokesperson for Paramount told The Hill on Wednesday the Trump lawsuit “is completely separate from, and unrelated to, the Skydance transaction and the FCC approval process.”

“We will abide by the legal process to defend our case,” the spokesperson said.

The two sides began mediation talks this month, with at least one report suggesting a potential settlement could reach upwards of $50 million and include a formal apology.

Meanwhile, Paramount’s apparent nudging toward an out-of-court agreement with the president is gaining attention on Capitol Hill.

A trio of senators wrote a letter to Redstone this week expressing “serious concern” about the possibility her media company “may be engaging in improper conduct involving the Trump administration.”

“Under the federal bribery statute, it is illegal to corruptly give anything of value to public officials to influence an official act,” the Democratic lawmakers wrote. “If Paramount officials make these concessions in a quid pro quo arrangement to influence President Trump or other Administration

>>1407538
CBS is not the first network to find itself in Trump’s legal crosshairs since he won reelection.

In December, ABC News agreed to pay $15 million and issued an apology for a broadcast during which anchor George Stephanopoulos falsely claimed Trump had been convicted of rape.

CBS has been through its fair share of controversies in recent years, from the firings of top executives and journalists like Les Moonves and Charlie Rose over sexual misconduct allegations, to the resignation of anchors like Lara Logan and Sharyl Attkisson who accused the network of liberal bias.

“I think Trump’s team really senses it’s been rough at CBS, and all of these networks, for a while now,” the Republican operative added. “If this goes where it looks like it’s headed, it could really be one of the final nails in the coffin.”

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https://decider.com/2025/05/22/the-view-tone-down-anti-trump-rhetoric/
>‘The View’ Hosts Were Asked To “Tone Down” Their Anti-Trump Rhetoric By ABC Execs, Disney CEO Bob Iger – But They Refused: Report

I love it when media works for the president. Truly we are the land of the free and the home of the brave.

>>1407554
>I love it when media works for the president
Exactly! The media is in trumps pocket! They deceptively edited the great Harris interview into a deceptive and misleading cheap fake carefully engineered by Republican billionaires to cause her to lose the election

>>1407554
Is there no middle ground here?

>>1407561
Shari Redstone wants her golden parachute, so probably not.

>>1407558
What do you personally feel was the most shockingly deceptive edit in the Harris interview?
Which of her answers did they drastically change that offended you the most?

>>1407566
>The defense brigade appears.

The payback against tRump will be very entertaining in 2029. I may quit fenny just to stick around to enjoy.

>>1407577
>No answer
I accept your concession. You may now have your customary trans obsessed hissy fit.

>>1407598
We might actually get a real leftist in the executive branch for the first time this century.

>>1407558
>deceptively edited
They aired the first part of her answer to the same question during a promo and the second part of her answer to the same question during the airing of the episode. That is the extent of the "scandal".

Is cutting a waffling answer down for time with zero fucking substantive changes, a thing literally every pre-recorded interview does=deceptive editing?

You willing to apply that standard to Trump's "weave"? Cause if so, the major news networks owe Dems a few hundred trillion dollars.

>>1407605
>You willing to apply that standard
Right wingers have no standards but double standards

>>1407561
There would be middle ground if the vast majority of news media in the US didn't blatantly do the bidding of Trump

The joke is that all news outlets edit everything Trump says so that he looks relatively lucid and sane. Even Fox News cuts away from his babbling and only shows tightly edited cuts of his speeches.

But it's okay when MAGA does it.

>>1407627
Yeah cuz no news organizations have ever edited anything Trump said to make him sound worse amirite?
>Good people on both sides.

>>1407629
The thing you don't get which exonerates the media in that example is how there are not good people on both sides

>>1407631
Yeah except there were you stupid faggot. But I hear this bullshit all the time from you thoughtless lefties, so I'm pretty much numb to it at this point. Also it helps that you identify everyone who disagrees with you as a nazi.

>>1407636
If by 'lefties' you mean anyone to the left of Nick Fuentes then sure.

>>1407636
You seem pretty upset about it to me

>>1407636
If right-wingers don’t want to be called nazis then they should stop acting like nazis.

>>1407657
being*

>>1407657
>>If you call someone a nazi enough they become a nazi
ok dipshit logic, maybe you should stop being a regressive bigot and trying to gaslight people into believing your delusions.

>>1407627
This.
The Republicans at CBS got what was coming to them for this, and it's only right that they quit their jobs. They deceptively edited the Kamala Harris interview into another one of their cheap fake smear campaigns and once again, successfully got away with election interference by helping Donald Trump win

>>1407664
Project harder, anon.

>>1407666
>They deceptively edited the Kamala Harris interview into another one of their cheap fake smear campaigns
What were the edits? I've not heard this story.

>>1407671
>why don't people agree with me when i call them nazis reeeee
>i'm not projecting YOU"RE projecting I am god, Every word i speak becomes reality and truth.
egotistic much guess it comes with being a demshit

>>1407676
Exactly like that, yes.

>>1407604
I pray that never happens. If losing the last 3 federal elections means anything, maybe leftism and the Democrat party will die and be gone forever.

>>1407675
>I've not heard this story
Take your head out of the sand, this entire article is about news executives interfering with an election by creating cheap fakes of their own interviews with Kamala Harris to throw the election in favor of trump

>>1407680
>it's a "chud doesn't accept the results of the 2020 election" thread

>>1407686
>Take your head out of the sand, this entire article is about news executives interfering with an election by creating cheap fakes of their own interviews with Kamala Harris to throw the election in favor of trump
I dunno. It seems like if it were such a simple story you could explain it to me. What specifically did they do? I don't know what a cheap fake is. Is this AI bullshit or something?

>>1407701
He's not being serious.

Didn't CBS just get an Emmy nomination for their fantastic editing on the Harris interview?

>>1407554
America media has been working for the democratic party for many years

>>1407745
This is a Fox News advertising slogan.

>>1407536 (OP)
lying whore missinformation spreading media you dont hate them enough

>>1407721
Kek.

>>1407763
Please tell us a single source you dont consider mainstream media. Can you name a single source you trust? Where does your information come from?

>>1407745
>>1407767
>>1407721
>>1407686
Same question to these posters. Can any of you name a single source your trust and don’t consider main stream media?

>>1407773
I only trust the mainstream media, but only to a point. There are certain topics they purposely never report on unless they can help it, such as the companies which advertise the most on their networks/websites.

>>1407773
youll never get a straight answer out of them. anything that puts trump or the gop in a bad light, even if its just literally playing him talking or j6 footage, is liberal extreme fake news. they wont admit to watching hannity and gutfield on the only fake news channel of them all.

the real answer should be c-span and any main stream media outside of the US, but cspan is over their head and like going to a library or something, and if its outside of the US they aren't white people or have an accent so it's dismissed.

>>1407773
Nta but I don't trust any single source.
Or more specifically, I assume that among any mainstream US media organization, that what they report is true when read literally, however it's the information they don't report on is how they effectively lie or control narrative.

It's important to synthesize from multiple sources to get a whole story. I do strongly believe that lying by omission is the most common way mainstream news organizations in the US mislead the reader.