2024 Election

CBS Faces ‘News Distortion’ Complaint– thefederalist.com
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… The Center for American Rights, a Chicago-based public interest law firm, has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission demanding CBS release the unedited 60 Minutes transcript “to set the record straight.”

“This isn’t just about one interview or one network,” Daniel Suhr, president of the Center for American Rights, said in a statement. “This is about the public’s trust in the media on critical issues of national security and international relations during one of the most consequential elections of our time.”

“When broadcasters manipulate interviews and distort reality, it undermines democracy itself. The FCC must act swiftly to restore public confidence in our news media,” Suhr added.

The complaint faces some tough sledding. Earlier this week FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel blasted Trump’s call for CBS to lose its license, asserting the commission “does not and will not revoke licenses for broadcast stations simply because a political candidate disagrees with or dislikes content or coverage.”

“While repeated attacks against broadcast stations by the former President may now be familiar, these threats against free speech are serious and should not be ignored,” Rosenworcel said. “As I’ve said before, the First Amendment is a cornerstone of our democracy.”

9 in 10 Voters Say CBS Should Release Full Kamala Harris Transcript– www.newsbusters.org
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Nine in ten voters say CBS should release the full transcript of its October 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris which the network edited before airing in an apparent attempt to present Harris’s comments in an unrealistically favorable manner.

CBS issued a statement this week denying allegations that it deceitfully edited Harris’ answers to questions – but, it obdurately continues to refuse to release the full video and transcript of the interview.

By releasing the full transcript of the October 7, 2024 interview, CBS would enable the public to judge whether or not the edits made before airing were biased and made to dishonestly portray Democrat Presidential Candidate Harris’s remarks.

And, Americans overwhelmingly do want to see for themselves what actually took place in the CBS interview, a CAPS/Harris survey finds. (The Harris poll, which has been around since the Sixties, is in no way related to Kamala Harris.)

A national survey of registered voters, conducted October 11-13 by The Harris Poll and HarrisX, asked the following question:

“Should CBS release the full transcript of its interview with Kamala Harris or not release the full transcript?”

Fully 85% of voters – including 87% of Democrats, 88% of Republicans, and 80% of Independents/Others say that, yes, CBS should release the full transcript.

CBS Still Resisting Release of Full ‘60 Minutes’ Harris Interview– www.dailysignal.com
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Former President Donald Trump’s criticism of CBS’ “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris has triggered the predictable legacy media meltdown. It’s unfortunate.

Trump and Harris supporters should demand CBS come clean about why the network significantly altered Harris’ responses on the Biden-Harris administration’s relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

The network has disingenuously claimed that the editing was a standard exercise of its authority to trim interviews for time considerations. That rationale might work for the first answer, where CBS trimmed Harris’ four-paragraph answer down to a single sentence, but it completely ignores the second answer substitution, where “60 Minutes” egregiously swapped one single-sentence answer for another.

Either way, CBS News would typically post the full interview on its website, as many of its news programs often do. But it didn’t do that here.

Since CBS has declined to fully explain the editing controversy, viewers must speculate why the network substituted a different answer to the same prompt. An obvious possibility is that anti-Israel politics are the real driver here.

As a result of its selective editing, CBS removed Harris’ statements about Israeli aid and self-defense and replaced another answer with a statement calling for a cease-fire, which Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders oppose.