Snapshot · The Bulwark Podcast
CBS News settled a lawsuit Trump filed over a '60 Minutes' interview that CBS itself considered frivolous, fatally undermining its ability to hold the administration accountable.
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Tim Miller steers directly into the CBS discussion, and Dickerson — careful throughout to note he no longer works there and dislikes public kibitzing about current colleagues — nevertheless speaks with clarity about what the lawsuit settlement represented. The administration's project, he argues, is to make verifiable information entirely up for grabs — 'my narrative is my narrative and everybody else's is treason.' Secretary Noem's CNN appearance after the Minneapolis deaths, where she argued against what the video plainly showed, is the sharpest example of this project in action. Against that backdrop, news organizations are supposed to 'fight like hell.' When instead they pay off a meritless lawsuit — essentially keeping the president's interests in mind — they undermine the entire trust relationship with the public. You cannot tell viewers 'we're asking these questions on your behalf' after you've demonstrated you'll pay the subject to go away. The stakes, Dickerson emphasizes, are not abstract: the administration is rewriting events including January 6th, and a supine press is complicit. [1] — John Dickerson "The moment CBS settled Trump's frivolous '60 Minutes' lawsuit, it signaled it was keeping the president's interests in mind — which is inco…" 50:40
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