CBS -Message boss announces when Paramount is supposed to conclude the lawsuit with Trump: NPR

Wendy McMahon, President of CBS News, announced her resignation on Monday because “the company and I do not agree to the way”.

No longer left her announcement: CBS paramount Paramount Global and its controlling owner, Shari Redstone, are involved in comparative negotiations with lawyers for President Trump to pay his 20 billion US dollar lawsuit Against the characteristic show of CBS, 60 minutes.

McMahon made her announcement in the morning after the last episode of this season of this season 60 minutes and just a few weeks after the Resignation of the experienced executive producer of the showBill Owens. Owens said he no longer had the feeling that he could lead the show independently.

Both McMahon and Owens had announced that they were relentlessly against a settlement with Trump.

Last autumn, CBS broadcast different excerpts from the reaction of the then Vice President Kamala Harris on a question about the Israel/Gaza War on two different shows. 60 minutes And Put on the nation. Trump accused the network of election fraud and claimed that it hid her incoherency.

CBS described the differences as a journalistic decision. Legal observers and media lawyers say uniformly to NPR that the network should prevail on the first change due to the protection of speech and that Trump has no legal reasons for a case.

In January before Trump's inauguration, a long -time CBS news manager, Susan Zirinsky, was called to monitor standards of the most important news programs in the network. Journalists at 60 minutes Believed that the appointment was primarily aimed at it. Zirinksy, a much celebrated producer, is closely with Redstone, who also criticized the reporting on CBS about Israel.

Since the circular licenses for the local stations of CBS would be transferred if the sale goes through, the Federal Communications Commission must first approve the business. FCC chair Brendan Carr has opened a formal examination of CBS for the Harris interview and invited public comments. Carr has signaled his support for Trump's lawsuit.

The managers of Redstone and Paramount said privately that they have to solve Trump's lawsuit – regardless of the merits – before the Federal Supervisory Authorities decide whether they want to approve the sale of the company to Skydance media, according to several people with knowledge of events. (They were granted anonymity so that they can talk about confidential transactions and negotiations.)

Paramount Global Manager was inspired by the Walt Disney Co.'s decision to pay a defamation for ABC News, which included a multi-million dollar payment to a future Trump Foundation and an apology. Owens told his employees that he would not apologize and McMahon made it clear that she fully supported him.

Skydance belongs to David Ellison, the son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, a Trump supporter who ultimately finances the deal. David Ellison has the former CEO of NBC Universal, Jeff Shell, to lead Paramount Global, and suspects that the acquisition takes place.

It was unlikely that McMahon's term would survive such a deal.

In her farewell notification, McMahon thanked the CBS viewers and wrote: “Thank you for your trust. You keep us accountable and remind us of why this work is important.”

McMahon came through local news and was appointed co-president of the CBS news department and the stations in 2021. She took over the job alone two years ago when her co-president Neraj Khemlani. calmly. It also supervised the syndicated programming.

In a statement to employees published by the network, George Cheeks, the co-CEO of Paramount Global and head of CBS, praised their term mainly in terms of their work in local stations. Above all, he did not address the backdrop of her decision.

“In a rapidly changing world, Wendy and her teams have worked hard to articulate a vision and create a basis that adapts our news operations for the future,” Scheeks wrote.

The network did not comment on the status of the settlement talks.