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Award winning journalist Lowell Bergman believes that the Paramount Global and CBS’s eight-in-clock settlement with President Donald Trump will proceed to “unacceptable” fear “60 min” reporters for “60 min”.
Bergman, a long manufacturer for CBS’s “60 minutes”, had a dramatic in the 1999 film, “The Insider,” The Daily “appeared on the New York Times Podcast, offering the Paramount Global and CBS to settled with Trump.
Bergman was played in the film by Al Pincho, which was based on the true story of the CBS legal lawyer, which tried to shut down his tobacco industry report to please corporate interests. Bergman said that the current CBS issues have been made even worse by Paramount’s decision to settle Trump’s “election intervention” trial.
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Al Patchino starred in “Insider” as former “60 minutes” manufacturer Lowell Bergman.
“It’s nonsense, it’s to intimidate,” Bergman said about Trump’s $ 20 billion election intervention trial against the network.
In the trial, CBS News edited the “60 minute” interview with the then Vice President Kamla Harris last year to make him look more clear before the election day. Several legal experts and their lawyers of Paramount stressed that the lawsuit was qualified, but the CBS’s original company resolved it anyway. Paramount controlled shareholder Sherry Redstone pushed to settle the way for Trump’s FCC to settle for disposal, which to approve a long -employed, attractive merger with David Alison’s Skydance Media.
Bergman said, “This is not like a tobacco -related case, and the pressure that was coming down … It is the President of the United States, it is without an example in the history of this country.”
Bergman said that settlement was explained in a way by paramount global and CBS to make it look like a “modest thing”, when they believe it could really have a major impact.
Bergman told Podcast, “Anyone working on ’60 minutes’ from now on is worried about what is going to happen in the air, at one level, how should I put it? Not acceptable,” Bergman told Podcast.
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In “The Insider”, Philip Baker Hall was played by “60 minutes” executive manufacturer Don Hewit, Al Patchino, playing the role of producer Lowell Bergman and Christopher Plmar, playing Mike Walece.
Bergmans are hopeful “60 minutes” can achieve credibility, but feel that manufacturers and journalists can hesitate to cause any dispute.
“And if the new owners who are coming, who are going to buy, is not a long tradition for living in the news business or respecting traditions that it reflects, we are really in a serious moment when the absurd lawsuits and huge amounts of money come together to damage the public interest,” said Bergman.
“So, I would say,” he continued. “You will be a little sad about the future.”
Fox News Digital has learned that the amount being paid to Trump can reach the answer of $ 30 million, with $ 16 million to pay for his future President’s library, in addition to the future network in support of advertisements, public service announcements or other similar broadcasting in support of conservative reasons by the network.
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In 2013, prize winning journalist Lowell Bergman at the 56th San Francisco International Film Festival.
The current paramount management disputes additional allocation, and a source familiar with the current leadership of Paramount reported that Fox News Digital was approved by an official mediator of only $ 16 million, and has no knowledge of any deal made by Trump.
The CBS also agreed to update its editorial standards by compulsory with the full, united tape of interviews with future presidential candidates.
Paramount has defended settlement.
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“Companies often settle litigation to avoid high and some extent of legal defense, the risk of an adverse decision that can result in significant financial or reputed damage, and disintegration for business operations that can lead to long -term legal battles. Settlement provides a dialogue resolve that allows companies to focus on their main objectives instead of uncertainty and distraction.
