US EditionFreedom of the Press Foundation Threatens Legal Action if Paramount Settles With Trump Over '60 Minutes' Interview
- Donald Trump has filed a $20 billion lawsuit against the company that owns CBS News over a 60 Minutes interview broadcast just before the 2024 election.
- Trump alleges CBS deceptively edited an interview with Kamala Harris, while Paramount’s controlling shareholder Shari Redstone seeks settlement to ease federal approval of a merger with Skydance.
- A press freedom organization that holds shares in Paramount cautioned Shari Redstone that reaching a settlement could constitute illegal bribery and a violation of fiduciary responsibilities, and called for the preservation of related documents.
- FPF director Seth Stern warned that resolving Trump's baseless lawsuit could serve as a disguised method to funnel bribes through the judicial process, potentially damaging CBS’s reputation and exposing company executives to legal risks.
- FPF plans a shareholder derivative lawsuit if settlement occurs, aiming to protect First Amendment rights and signaling potential shareholder and legal challenges against Paramount’s executives.
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The Independent
The Independent (US)FPF says it will sue Paramount if it settles with Trump over 60 Minutes lawsuit
FPF said corporations that own news outlets ‘should not be in the busines”s of settling “baseless lawsuits that clearly violate the First Amendment and put other media outlets at risk’
Freedom of the Press Foundation Threatens Legal Action if Paramount Settles With Trump Over '60 Minutes' Interview - Overpasses For America
Media advocacy group Freedom of the Press Foundation has sent a warning letter to Paramount mogul Shari Redstone, outlining plans to file a lawsuit if the media company settles a suit brought by President Donald Trump against its subsidiary, CBS. “Corporations that own news outlets should not be in the business of settling baseless lawsuits that clearly violate the First Amendment,” Freedom of the Press Foundation director of advocacy Seth Stern…
Freedom of the Press Foundation Threatens Legal Action if Paramount Settles With Trump Over '60 Minutes' Interview
As Paramount considers settling a lawsuit with Donald Trump over a "60 Minutes" interview, the Freedom of the Press Foundation warns that it will sue over a deal that allegedly “could amount to a bribe.”
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President Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS News for manipulating Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes interview continues to shed light on the distrust of legacy media. (READ MORE: Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes Interview, for Real) The Spectacle Podcast hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss how major media’s decline in value and credibility has led them to face a massive overhaul for misleading the American people. They discuss the implicati…
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