The Paramount will solve the case of President Trump for $ 16 million in a “60 -minute” interview with Kamla Harris, the company announced late on Tuesday night.
The original company of CBS News worked with a mediator to resolve the case. Under the agreement, $ 16 million will be allocated to the fees and costs of Mr. Trump’s future President’s Library and Wadi. Neither Mr. Trump nor his co-Plantif, Texas rape. Ronnie Jackson will be paid as part of direct settlement.
The disposal was not involved in the disposal.
The statement stated that Paramount also agreed that “60 minutes” would release interview tapes with the presidential candidates in the future, “subject to the need to reduce the legal or national security concerns,” the statement.
Mr. Trump’s case, Filed in last October When he was still a candidate for the President, he was widely seen as an attack on the first amendment. He broadcast two different parts of Harris’s response to a question about the Middle East with CBS News, one in a “face the nation” in an early fraction and the other at a “60 -minute full broadcast.”
The trial was filed in Amarilo, Texas, which was in a part of a federal district court, where the only judge is the appointment of 2019 Trump, and was based on a State Consumer Protection Act, which aims to prevent the public from misleading the products sold to advertisers. CBS News is not headquartered in Texas, nor interviewed there.
He initially demanded $ 10 billion for losses for filing a case last October, but alleging false advertisements and unfair competition, after connecting the federal claim, brought his demand to $ 20 billion in February. A Texas Republican Jackson joined the revised complaint at Sri Trump as a plaintiff.
Paramount has stated that the lawsuit was completely without merit and “60 minutes” followed a standard editing process. The show’s executive producer, Bill Owens, stood behind the show interview and said he would not apologize. He announced in April that he would do Depart networkCiting the loss of editorial freedom.
Weeks later, Wendy McMahon, who served as Chairman and CEO of CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures, announced that it was Also departure“It is clear that the company and I do not agree on the ahead,” he has written to the employees in a note.
The first amendment scholars and constitutional experts saw a large -scale lawsuit in a wrong way of law.
A first amendment scholar at the University of Chicago and Professor of Law Jeffrey R. Stone explained, “This law is about sale – a vendor can be held responsible for telling that a product has some positive effects when he knows that it is not. But CBS is not engaged in advertising here.”
Noah Feldman, a constitutional law expert and Professor of Harvard, called the case a “derogatory violation of the first amendment principles”.
Politicians also talked about the suit, in which Paramount Global Chair Shar Redstone was not requested. The next day after McMahon’s departure, Senator Berney Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Ron Widen sent a letter to Redstone, which raised concerns that would be the amount for bribery attempts to settle with Mr. Trump. Redstone re -used itself from the disposal negotiations.
In a social post of April 1, Mr. Trump said he was “honored” to sue CBS and Paramount. He also urged Brendon Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to impose a “maximum fine and punishment” against CBS in connection with a news deformation complaint, which was filed by a conservative group in the same Harris interview. Before the end of the tenure of former President Biden, outgoing FCC president Jessica Rosenvarsel dismissed the complaint in January, but after Mr. Trump took over, the car reopened it and appointed him as a role.
Back in February, CBS compiled together with an FCC investigation to hand over the transport and video from Harris interview, as well as together Issue of those files For the public.
CBS dismisses the FCC complaint in a March filing, wrote, “The complaint filed against CBS for ‘news deformation’ is included in a low independent world in which the federal government becomes a rowing sensor – one that estimates and even punishing specific editorial decisions that is an essential part of the producing program.”
Complaints of news deformation open and remain under investigation.
FCC approval is required to proceed with Skydance Media for a $ 8.4 billion merger of paramount, and the agency did not decide on transactions from an informal 180-day deadline to review the merger, which was passed in May. Carr said on Thursday that FCC was still reviewing the transaction.
If complete, the paramount-shydance merger will discontinue a long, turbulent sales process that attracts many potential bidders. Corporate parents of Skydance and Paramount, conversation between national entertainment, conversation were briefly closed before starting and A deal in July 2024,
