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Subject: Re: Bill Owens, 60 Minutes producer, has resigned
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:12:19 -0000 (UTC)
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On Apr 24, 2025 at 4:28:46 AM PDT, "NoBody" <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:01:37 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/22/2025 3:01 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>  60 Minutes offended Trump for an edited interview with Kamala Harris to
>>>  show her in a less unfavorable light. In a baseless lawsuit, Trump sued
>>>  CBS for $20 billion lawsuit. The Redstone family, which privately holds
>>>  the Viacom holding company (whatever it's called this week), wants to
>>>  sell out to Skydance, owned by the son of Larry Ellison. The media has
>>>  been speculating that the Redstones are sucking up to Trump like
>>>  everybody else so that the federal government won't regulate the merger
>>>  to death.
>>>  
>>>  The lawsuit has been neither dismissed nor settled.
>>>  
>>>  Bill Owens claims he's under too much corporate pressure to produce 60
>>>  Minutes independently. He has resigned.
>>>  
>>>  I never bothered to track down the interview but if he did what he's
>>>  accused of, I'm not seeing that he was behaving like an unbiasted
>>>  journalist.
>>>  
>>> 
>>> https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5261067-bill-owens-cbs-60-minutes-resignation/
>>> 
>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/media/cbs-60-minutes-trump-bill-owens.html
>> 
>> It was yet more (successful) bullshit by Trump.
>> 
>> This Megyn Kelly clip leads with the "dishonest" video:
>> 
>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=psrZhVO6kJc
> 
> Are you trying to claim that CBS did not edit her terrible interview
> to make her sound better?

Sure, but that's not illegal so how does that give Trump any legal grounds to
sue them?

If they'd edited an interview to make *him* look bad, sure. But editing it to
make someone else look good? How does he have standing to sue over that?