Overview
- Paramount Global’s board approved financial terms for a potential settlement during an April 18 meeting, clearing the way for mediation to begin on April 30, 2025.
- President Trump alleges that CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ deceptively edited Kamala Harris’s interview to favor her 2024 presidential campaign, seeking $20 billion in damages.
- CBS News has maintained the edits were standard practice and denies any wrongdoing, with legal experts widely calling the lawsuit frivolous and unlikely to succeed.
- Bill Owens, the executive producer of ‘60 Minutes,’ resigned last week, citing corporate interference and a loss of editorial independence amid settlement discussions.
- The Federal Communications Commission continues its investigation into CBS under the rarely used ‘news distortion’ policy, which could impact Paramount’s pending $8 billion merger with Skydance Media.