CBS News President to take off the tensions of Network with Trump

CBS News was entitled to another shock wave on Monday after his President Wendy McMahon abruptly declared that she would leave her contribution, the recent development in an ongoing showdown between the news department and President Trump.

Ms. McMahon, whose full title was President of CBS News and Stations, said in a memo that “the company has become clear and I did not agree to the way.”

The tensions between Ms. McMahon and the parent company of CBS, Paramount, cooked for months, a time that Mrs. McMahon described in her memo as “challenging”.

Paramount is in conversations to pay a lawsuit submitted by Mr. Trump in the amount of $ 20 billion, which accused “60 minutes” of deceptively working on an interview with his democratic opponent Kamala Harris last year. Many legal experts described the lawsuit as unfounded, but the controlling shareholder of Paramount, Sharia Redstone, said that it favors the case. She is looking for the approval of the Trump management to sell several million dollars to a Hollywood studio, SkyDance, to a Hollywood studio.

The situation prompted the executing producer of “60 minutes”, Bill Owens, to step down last month and said he had no longer enjoyed his usual journalistic independence. At that time, Ms. McMahon had trouble signaling her support for Mr. Owens, and said that “behind the producer afterwards” was an easy decision for me.

Ms. McMahon brought her hug from Mr. Owens and “60 minutes” with the executives of Paramount, who had obtained about the reporting of the show about the Trump administration. Within CBS News, some journalists expected Ms. McMahon to disappear within months. But the timing of her announcement, less than 24 hours after the season finale of Sunday of “60 minutes”, still raised the eyebrows.

Ms. McMahon's term at CBS News, which she took over in August 2023, was sometimes rocky.

An overhaul of “CBS Evening News”, which was introduced at the beginning of this year, did not associated with the audience, and the ratings for the flagship -newscast have been severely fallen. In addition to the dispute with Mr. Trump, Ms. Redstone's news department was also suspended in internal criticism in January about the war between Israel and Hamas.

And Ms. Redstone openly criticized Mrs. McMahon's handling of an incident in October in which the “CBS-Morgen” anchor Tony Doyupil was involved, who in an interview had questioned the author Ta-Nehisi Coates about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

CBS News Management Powers stabbed Mr. Dokoupil on a news edge and said that his interview had decreased behind the editorial standards. Ms. Redstone said that the step is “a mistake” and that Mr. Dokoupil “did a great job with this interview”.