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CBS News Says It Will Provide Unedited Transcript Of ‘60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris Interview To FCC
CBS said that it will comply with an FCC letter of inquiry that it provide an unedited transcript of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. The interview, which aired in the final weeks of the presidential election in October, did not involve Donald Trump. But in the segment, Harris gave a different answer to […]
But in the segment, Harris gave a different answer to a question than the one that aired during a promo on Face The Nation, leading to Trump to call for the network to lose its broadcast licenses and for him to file a $10 billion lawsuit. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, appointed by Trump, has given credence to the complaint under the agency’s “news distortion” policy, a rarely enforced policy designed to sanction stations who have been proven to have “deliberately distorted a factual news report.” But the agency also notes in its guidelines that its authority is narrow and that it is “prohibited by law from engaging in censorship or infringing on First Amendment rights of the press.” As Skydance seeks FCC approval for its acquisition of Paramount Global, sources say that there have been talks with the Trump team about settling the case.
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