CBS didn't commit 'news distortion'
I have been covering the CBS matter closely, so I can tell you, it's flummoxing. The matter is newsworthy because it's the subject of an active FCC investigation and a pending Trump lawsuit that CBS parent Paramount Global is trying to settle. But it's all based on a faulty premise. There is no "there" there.
Yesterday the FCC released the raw tapes and transcript at issue, which proved that CBS engaged in normal editing, not "news distortion." As FCC chair Brendan Carr himself has said in interviews, the bar for proving "news distortion" is very high – it would apply if someone said "no" in an interview, but a TV station edited the segment to appear like the person said "yes." That's not what CBS did.
Facts be damned, Trump said this morning that "they 100% removed Kamala's horrible election changing answers to questions, and replaced them with completely different, and far better, answers, taken from another part of the interview."
From:
reliablesources@newsletters.cnn.com
Do something positive.
| 