Pre -east CBS News Langer Dan rather Expressed disappointment on Wednesday Paramount global‘S decision To pay $ 16 million to the Trump administration and to its trial “60 minutes“Report.
“This is a sad day for journalism, rather told Diversity“This is a sad day for ’60 minutes” and CBS News. I hope that people will read the details about this and understand what it was. It was deformation by the President and a kneeling by the President and saying,’ Yes, sir, ‘by billionaire corporate owners. ”
Most of the legal scholars agreed to the suit-in which Trump accused of “60 minutes”, who was accused of editing an interview with the then presidential candidate Kamla Harris-it was trivial and not under the first modification.
“What do I really get about what paramount was not to be organized,” but said. “When you do something wrong, you solve a lawsuit.” 60 minutes “did nothing wrong. It accepted journalism practices. The lawyers almost unanimously said that the matter would not stand in court.”
Instead, CBS News and “60 minutes” expressed full support of his former colleagues: “My support for them is total, absolute,” he said. “I really think that they fought a good fight over it, and they will continue to fight. On ’60 minutes’ people and people in CBS News did not lie down it. They tried their best to stop it.”
However, he said that he was not surprised by the disposal of Paramount Global. The decision to attack a deal was widely seen as an important step to obtain approval from the tripped-controlled FCC for the acquisition of $ 8 billion of the media group.
“I was disappointed, but I was not surprised,” he said. “The people of the big billionaire business decide about the money. We could always hope that they would make an exception when it came to the freedom of the press, but it was not to happen.
He said, “Trump knew that if he pressures and threatens and simply believes that he would turn, because there is a lot of money on the table,” he said. “Trump is now forcing a whole news organization to pay millions of dollars to do something protected by the Constitution-that, of course, independent and independent reporting. Now, you take today’s sales-out. And this was the same: It was: It was a sell-out for forcible recovery by the President. Now where does all this end?”
Rather, what it means to the United States as democracy then pointed to its major issue. “This is not only to do with journalism, but more importantly, as a whole with the country,” he said. “What kind of country are we going to, what kind of country are we going to become. If the major news organizations continue to kneel before power and stop trying to be powerful accountable, then we all lose.
“And then the Big Time Law firms are in the same way while kneeling right and left,” he said. “Big universities are also doing this. Trump is taking out what he wants. Now what is he doing what he wants out of news organizations. So when I say, ‘Where does it go?” What is the effect on journalism as a whole? ,
Asked what he can give advice to people in CBS News and “60 minutes”, rather said politely that it is not their place – but they are already “in their hearts, in their hearts, the best things, I would say that, I would say that, I hope to double what they are allowed to do.”
As a journalist in more than 60 years, but said that he never saw that the profession has to face such challenges. He said, “Journalism has previously done its tests and tribulations, and it just takes courage on the soldier,” he said. “Keep trying, fight. It takes courage to do so. And I know people in CBS News, and especially in ’60 minutes,’ they will do their dead levels best in these circumstances. But the question is what this development and message sends to us. And that is I trying to focus.”
