A series of major personal and political victories for President Donald Trump includes a multimillion-dollar settlement with Paramount, which owns CBS News.
The network will be shelling out $16 million in response to a lawsuit related to an edited interview with then-presidential hopeful Kamala Harris.
CBS has also agreed to implement new policies aimed at presenting unabridged interviews with presidential contenders going forward.
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For Dan Rather, a long-time CBS news anchor, the settlement amounts to a major corporation giving into a White House extortion attempt, as Fox News reported:
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“What really gets me about this is that Paramount didn’t have to settle,” he told Variety. “You settle a lawsuit when you’ve done something wrong. ’60 Minutes’ did nothing wrong. It followed accepted journalistic
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