Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr plans to impose an investigation into the alleged one -sided editing with “60 minutes” in high clothing after CBS news on the full transcript of his controversial interview with Kamala Harris has learned.
Carr pledged to launch an investigation after a complaint from the Center for American Rights, a conservative activist, who argued that the long show favorably reduced October reduction with the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential nominee.
In an exclusive interview with The Post on Monday, Carr said: “FCC has had a prohibition against news distortion in our books for 50 years. It applies to broadcasters but not cable. A group brought a non-frivolous complaint, so FCC is taking the next step in judging the case.
Carr, who was appointed by Trump to lead the agency, did not exclude testimony from “60 -minute” manufacturers and correspondent Bill Whitaker, who conducted Harris interview, told people close to the post.
“No decision has been made for extra steps,” Carr added.
CBS News fraudulently agreed to submit the transcript over the weekend following the first clash of the Trump’s request, which has sued the Paramount Global network for $ 10 billion for the deceptive editing of Harris interview.
Carr has not received the document yet, but expects to have it in hand before finishing business on Monday, he said.
CBS said in a statement that Carr announced the network last week in connection with the investigation and requested “full, paladic transcription and camera sources from our interview with Vice President Harris, who broadcast on October 7, 2024. We are working to ‘He agreed with that investigation as we are legally obliged to do.’
While the transcript’s request specifically refers to the complaint filed by the car, the result of Carr’s investigation has wider consequences for Paramount, people close to FCC told the post.
FCC is in the midst of the reunification of merging $ 8 billion Paramount with independent studio Skydance, and Carr is said to be weighing if CBS News general coverage was politically unilaterally against Trump and Republicans in general during the 2024 election cycle , as it is claimed.
FCC rules prohibit clear political prejudices, and networks of entities in equal time provisions, when they transmit news of public air waves compared to cable, which do not enter such guidelines.
If Carr finds that there was a fraudulent editing, he could not only rule in favor of the American Rights Center, but also kill the Paramount-Skydance agreement, which is set to close until March.
Among the possible remedies: Carr may require concessions to ensure future justice as a condition for final approval, the post has learned.
A Skydance representative had no comment.
Trump can use any evidence to come from Carr’s investigation to advance his lawsuit against the network.
CBS News and Trump are in what is described in the post as “very preliminary talks” on the lawsuit, filed in October at the Federal Court in North Texas.
The Tiffany Network has denied that there was any prejudice, but may want to escape the legal clash with the president, similar to Disney’s decision to resolve a trump defamation lawsuit against ABC News after “this week” George Stephanopoulos He claimed that he was “responsible for rape,” when no such judgment was given with a special civil lawsuit. Disney agreed to pay $ 15 million to the Trump presidential library and another $ 1 million in legal fees.
In a statement at the time of Trump’s lawsuit, CBS News said: “When we edit an interview, be it a politician, an athlete or film star, we try to be clear, accurate and at the point.”
Carr is a long Telecom activist and FCC commissioner before Trump appointed him to head the agency. He made a name for himself by raising questions about the Chinese short video app and if the CCP is using the Spycraft service.
Harris, Joe Biden and Running Mate’s VP until the former president left the race last summer, has long been known for providing incomprehensible answers, so-called salads with words when addressing simple questions about policy issues.
Criticism for the interview appeared after “60 minutes” aired a promotion for the segment where Harris appeared more coherent in answering a question that included the Middle East than when the final edited interview took place.
Examination of complete bias compared to clumsy editing will not be easy. And despite the FCC rules on justice, all news shows have significant protection of the first change, especially against government censorship.
But network critics say that “60 minutes” and CBS have generally been moved by reporting impartial news on public air waves that should respect FCC justice guidelines.
The network was once considered the golden standard of impartial journalism, but conservative media critics say in recent years it has been more and more leaning to the left.
This prejudice was on the show, they claim, during the 2024 election cycle. They point to the continuous control of the facts of Trump’s spouse JD Vance during the vice president organized by the network.
Critics also mentioned the internal pressure imposed on the “CBS Mornings” anchor Tony Dokoupil after his left-handing of leftist writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, who scored a screen that attacked Israel for his response to the brutal massacre of October 7.
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