Donald Trump once again slams CBS and “60 Minutes” and urges FCC Chairman to “impose maximum fines and punishments”
Donald Trump slams again 60 minutesthis time angry at two parts of the news magazine running on Ukraine and Greenland.
The president’s attacks in the media and 60 minutes are nothing new. What’s different about this semester is that he tries to assert authority over independent institutions that regulate media business.
Deadlines More
In a post about the Truth Society, Trump called on the network to lose its license and asked its FCC chairman Brendan Carr to “impose the biggest fine and punishment for their illegal and illegal acts, which is big, it is big.”
two 60 minutes For news magazines, the segment is very standard. One of them was interviewed by Ukrainian President Vodimir Zelensky. Scott Pelley noted in the section that Trump “rewrites history, wrongly saying that Ukraine started the war” and then ran a clip that the president called Zelensky a “dictator.”
“I believe, sadly, in the United States, Russian narratives are prevalent, how do we witness our losses and sufferings, understand what the Russians are doing, and still believe that they are not invaders, they are not launching this war? This shows the huge impact of Russia’s information policy on American politics, American politics and American politicians.”
Zelensky then invited Trump to visit Ukraine to see what Putin did to the country.
In the Greenland segment, Jon Wertheim spoke with residents who spoke about opposition to the U.S. annexation of the country. “Greenland is Greenland, not anyone else,” said its Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
Trump’s latest comments were selected in reported reports, trying to settle in his $20 billion lawsuit against CBS. 60 minutes Edited an interview with Kamala Harris. The president claims that the network intentionally makes Harris look better to help her campaign, which the network denies.
The lawsuit filed in the Texas federal court claims that the network violates the Texas Deceptive Practice Act, but many legal observers consider the lawsuit to be frivolous. Trump claimed his media company had truth social, and was hurt because 60 minutes The segment shifted traffic from his platform.
Nevertheless, CBS’s parent Paramount Global is seeking regulatory approval for the merger with Skydance, and seeing the deal get the green light from the Trump administration is the fundamentals of a litigation solution.
Meanwhile, Carr is on 60 minutes Kamala Harris breaks down after complaining that the network violated the FCC’s “News Distortion” policy. However, the authority of the FCC is narrow, and the agency recognizes that “the law prohibits censorship or violates First Amendment rights in the press.”
CBS provided the FCC with unedited transcripts for Harris interviews and stated that 60 minutes “The broadcast has not been tampered with or deceived,” the news magazine said in a statement in February.
“When reporting news, journalists regularly edit interviews – time, space or clarity. When making these editors, 60 minutes Always guided by truth, the way we think is most useful to the public – all of which work under the limitations of radio and television,” 60 minutes said in a statement.
That being said, Trump’s latest statement appears to be an attempt to put further pressure on Paramount as he seeks merger approval. This also puts pressure on Carl to impose some sort of punishment on CBS, even if in ordinary cases the network may challenge any action in the court in the First Amendment. Trump has tried to convey the message that the commissioner who did not support the risk of the administration’s agenda was fired, as he removed two Democratic commissioners on the FTC last month.
During his first term, Trump suggested that the FCC slam the NBC’s license in online news reports. But at the time his FCC chairman Ajit Pai defended the First Amendment and said: “Under the law, the FCC has no right to revoke the permission of the broadcast station based on the content of a specific news broadcast.”
60 minutesMeanwhile, since he took office, the Trump administration has been broadcasting hard work almost every week.
Best deadline
Newsletter for registration deadline. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
