Scott Billy said that the settlement of Donald Trump's suit will be “very harmful” for the reputation of CBS and Paramount, while a 60 -minute reporter also defended the last start speech as he warned of the threats of freedom of expression.
It appears in the CNN show after the live broadcast of Good night, and we wish you successBilly, his colleague, sat 60 minutes Reporter and CNN Anderson Cooper.
“If there is a settlement, and as part of the settlement, there is an apology, how damaged CBS?”
“It will be very harmful to CBS, to some extent, to the reputation of those companies,” said Billy. “I think many law firms that concluded offers with the White House at this moment are the same. This does not seem like its best hours.”
Since CBS-Parent Paramount Global seeks to obtain the approval of the Trump administration to integrate it with Skydance, the company's lawyers have had talks to settle the president's lawsuit against the network. Trump sued CBS for $ 20 billion on the road 60 minutes An interview with Kamala Harris was edited. The lawsuit, which was filed under the deceptive trade practices law in Texas, a law that was usually called for false advertising claims, is considered underestimated by a number of legal observers.
Cooper described the situation as “very strange.”
“Do you really wish the company be 100 % behind you, right?” Pelly said. “You really wish the company's early stages to come out publicly and say: '60 minutes, for example, is the jewel of the crown for the American press, and we stand with it by 100 %. I haven't heard it.”
“On the other hand, my work is on the air, and no one had a 60 -minute out of his thumb on a large scale and I say:” You cannot say that. You should say this. You have to edit the story in this way. You must meet this person. Nothing happened. “So, while I want to get this general support, the most important thing is that the work is still on the air.”
However, the executive product 60 minutesBill Owens resigned in April, and concluded that he no longer had the ability to make independent decisions on the offer, as in the past, he was taken from the companies' intervention.
“Bell's decision to resign was not a great decision for him, because he was always the first person to defend 60 minutes. Bell was not working for Paramount.
During CNN coverage after performing Good night, and we wish you successCooper also spoke to a committee that included Kara Swisscher, Koni Chung, Abe Philip and Brett Stevens, with comparisons with the situation that Moro faced while he took over Joe McCarthy to this day, when journalists are attacked by Donald Trump and his allies.
In their interview, Cooper Billy asked how Moro would have been dealing with the current situation in the network.
Billy noted that Moro's producer, Farid Wadoud, became head of CBS News and ultimately resigned in principle due to a dispute over the cover of the Vietnam War.
“I wonder if Ed did the same, given our current situation. Perhaps he was waiting to see how this lawsuit works with the president, and how Paramount deals with that and whether it is fighting. I think this means everything to Ed, and I also know where it will be this question. That will be to fight.”
Pelly also addressed a letter starting at Wake Forest University last month, “in his talk to Wake Forest graduates, Billy said,” Our holy law is being attacked. The press is being attacked. Universities are attacked. Freedom of expression is attacked. The malicious fear is to reach our schools, businesses, homes, and in our own ideas. Fear of speech. in America? “
Maga Pelly commentators criticized the comment.
Nevertheless, Pelly said that he “felt strongly that this is something that should be said. He didn't hit me that this would affect the idea of people as a journalist, because part of this speech is a speech about freedom of expression. This should be controversial.”
He said, “There was a little hysteria among some about this speech. I simply ask you, what does he say about our country when there is a hysteria about a discourse related to freedom of expression?”
Pelly said that what surprised him more than his approach to the administration was “the extent of fear.” He said it is difficult to make people talk about Trump on the camera.
“They do not want to stick to their head over the fox,” said Billy. “This is part of what is going on around the Wake Forest's speech, and we should not be fearful. This is exactly what Ed Moro was saying in this editorial at the end of the McCartic broadcast. We are not going in fear of each other. We do not descend from the fearful people.”
Pelly said he believed the United States is moving in a “similar direction” as a McCarthy era. “People make themselves for fear that the government will enjoy them, and this is not America that we all love.”
