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’60 Minutes’ Staffers Urged to Keep Show Ticking as Paramount Tangles With Trump
Staffers at CBS News' '60 Minutes' were urged Monday to keep the show on course even as Paramount Global considers settling a lawsuit tied to its work
Staffers at “ 60 Minutes ” urged one another to keep the venerable CBS newsmagazine going even as corporate parent Paramount Global investigates the possibility of settling what is seen as a flimsy defamation lawsuit tied to a report that ran on the show. Speaking during a meeting held Monday, both correspondents Scott Pelley and Anderson Cooper cautioned an assemblage of employees who work for the Sunday-night mainstay against letting the lawsuit tear the show apart and distract people from the journalism is presents each week, according to a person familiar with the matter. Filed in federal court in the Northern District of Texas in November, the suit alleges “60 Minutes” tried to mislead voters by airing two different edits of remarks made in an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris, then Trump’s rival for the White House.
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