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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Bill Owens, 60 Minutes producer, has resigned
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:19:10 -0000 (UTC)
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On Apr 25, 2025 at 1:30:46 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

> In article <vue5v2$2asog$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:
>>  On Apr 24, 2025 at 4:28:46 AM PDT, "NoBody" <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>  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.
>>>>  
>>>>  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?
> 
> Election interference?

That's such a legal stretch that there's no way it overcomes CBS's 1st
Amendment rights.