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The FCC rejected CBS’s attempt to get a compliant over their 60 minutes interview with Kamala Harris dismissed.
Trump has sued CBS for $20 billion.
The FCC on Tuesday shot down CBS’s bid to immediately dismiss a complaint from a conservative group over the controversial “60 Minutes” interview with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris just weeks before the election.
The show drew criticism from the Center for American Rights and then-presidential candidate Donald Trump over CBS’s broadcast of a portion of Harris’ answer to a question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on “60 Minutes” and a different portion of her answer to the same question on “Face the Nation.”
Trump has sued CBS for $20 billion, alleging that “60 Minutes” deceptively edited the interview in order to interfere with the election, which he easily won over the vice president.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr said, “We’re not close in my view to the position of dismissing that complaint at this point.”
FCC Chair Brendan Carr rejected the idea, telling Reuters on Tuesday that there is still an ongoing investigation. “We’re not close in my view to the position of dismissing that complaint at this point,” he said.
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The FCC is reviewing whether the broadcast violates “news distortion” rules. Though the agency is prohibited from censorship or infringing the First Amendment rights of media, broadcasters cannot intentionally distort the news.
Bad news for CBS.