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‘ CBS 60 Minutes’ publicly releases transcripts of interview to the FCC

We're not talking about a sports team. The executive producer isn't a player. The issue isn't the staff. It's what they do. They know what they want to do. But if the government is pressuring their company to stifle what they do, that's a bad thing. It's as if the government passed an executive order that says Miller Huggins can't play anymore. That's a whole different thing, don't you think? The government should not be using its power to interfere in journalism.
Miller Huggins was the Yankees' manager. He is in Cooperstown as a manager. You over-rate the importance of air talent.
 
I know you can't have a bunch of prima donas going off on their own without somebody hold their leashes.

The show is built around segment producers who keep the talent in line. It's a pretty big team.

Owens' official replacement has yet to be determined, but 60 Minutes executive editor Tanya Simon will take over the program on an interim basis in the meantime, per Variety. In his memo, Owens described Simon as an "amazing partner" and said he was "grateful" for her and others.

Tanya is the daughter of longtime CBS correspondent Bob Simon. So she knows what she's doing. No amateurs on that staff.

 
The NY Times and several other sources are reporting that Paramount is close to settling its lawsuit with the president:


This comes just days after the Exec Producer of 60 Minutes left the show. Coincidence? Maybe.
 
Pressuring CBS/Paramount, and threatening other networks over their media coverage. Defunding public media. Lining up a softball interview on ABC. Banning wire services from the White House. Weaponizing the FCC against broadcasters that don't fall in line...

What's left for a dictator to do but start up his own taxpayer-funded State Media propaganda outlet?

 
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Pressuring CBS/Paramount, and threatening other networks over their media coverage. Defunding public media. Lining up a softball interview on ABC. Banning wire services from the White House. Weaponizing the FCC against broadcasters that don't fall in line...

What's left for a dictator to do but start up his own taxpayer-funded State Media propaganda outlet?



Even Fox News gets targeted for a Trump rant over approval ratings and polls.


Then again nobody in the Trump Administration knows how AP operates and the polls have some of its origins from them.


Also if there are stories Trump does not like we have to dig the wires at the latest Drama in either in the White House or in the Putin Administration.


 
No, networks are not licensed But they have owned and operated stations and that is where they make most of their money.
I heard something on NPR yesterday about the networks getting their licenses taken away. I'm surprised whoever was reporting didn't say that only the stations have licenses, and that whoever was saying what was said was wrong.
 
I heard something on NPR yesterday about the networks getting their licenses taken away. I'm surprised whoever was reporting didn't say that only the stations have licenses, and that whoever was saying what was said was wrong.
True but it's Trump own rants or the FCC Chairman's own statements that ended up looking like networks are licensed but it's the local affiliates as we mentioned here.
 
No, networks are not licensed But they have owned and operated stations and that is where they make most of their money.
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If you look at all the data, the networks make much more from the net than from the operation of a few local stations. And that was true when local TV was more significant and much more now when OTA tv is in descent.
 
If you look at all the data, the networks make much more from the net than from the operation of a few local stations. And that was true when local TV was more significant and much more now when OTA tv is in descent.

Yet the chairman of the FCC is directing his investigations at the three networks, while using the stations as his justification.

For public radio & TV, his investigations have to do with the network sponsorship announcements that air on those stations. Not station sponsorships.
 
Yet the chairman of the FCC is directing his investigations at the three networks, while using the stations as his justification.
That does not change the fact that O&O’s are less and less of a revenue source fore the whole enterprise.
For public radio & TV, his investigations have to do with the network sponsorship announcements that air on those stations. Not station sponsorships.
However, the Republican intent is obviously to make the “public” think that they have regulatory control of the networks.
 



Note this is a business managed by Geoff Tracy and whatever stuff that lead to the investigation to take place by ICE Agents. But the headlines tie it back to CBS News Correspondent Norah O Donnell.
 
Doesn't the 4th amendment say something about unreasonable searches? Did they have probable cause or was this merely a fishing expedition?
 
Doesn't the 4th amendment say something about unreasonable searches? Did they have probable cause or was this merely a fishing expedition?
True too but that's not how this goes with this administration. Apparently this search warrant didn't even go through the courts it went through a higher ranking ICE agent instead.
 


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