Palamount Global faces the cool heat of Capitol Hill about his conversations to resolve a $ 20 billion slander demand filed by President Trump against CBS News, with three American senators who warn that an agreement could violate the United States anti-Bressol laws.
In a letter sent Tuesday night to the President of Paramount, Shari Redstone, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ear.) And Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) He warned that Paramount “can participate in undue behaviors that involve the Trump administration in exchange of approval of its merger with the Skydance media.”
The letter and its content were first informed by the Wall Street Journal.
The legislators are looking for detailed information on the concessions discussed with Trump, as well as any internal decision to alter the programming of CBS, especially related to the “60 minutes”, the network research research program.
The demand comes from an interview of “60 minutes” of 2024 with the then Vice President Kamala Harris, which Trump states that he was deceptively edited to favor it during the campaign.
CBS has strongly denied the accusation, calling the demand “completely without merit”.
“The North -American people deserves to know if media companies are negotiating with public officials in a way that compromises journalistic independence,” the senators wrote.
“These actions could be a violation of federal law.”
The calendar of demand is essential.
Paramount is looking for a regulatory authorization for his merger proposal of $ 8 billion with Skydance Media.
Redstone, President of Paramount Global, the CBS matrix company, is that he wins $ 2 billion personally if the fusion proposed with Skydance Media passes.
The Federal Communications Commission, which must approve the agreement, is currently chaired by the appointment of Trump Brendan Carr, proposing concerns within the company that the demand could jeopardize the merger unless resolved.
Paramount has denied any link between the litigation and the process of approval of the merger.
When he arrived at the publication, a spokesman for Paramount stated that the company would “fulfill the legal process to defend our case” and rejected more comments on the senators’ letter.
The publication has sought comments from Skydance, FCC and Trump.
CBS News President and CEO, Wendy McMahon, resigned on Monday after what inmates describe as weeks of internal tension on how to manage Trump’s demand and his fall.
According to the site, McMahon had opposed solving the case and was alarmed by what he saw as a growing pressure from Paramount to soften CBS Trump’s coverage.
Sources said in the publication that McMahon requested that he resign at the weekend, CBS’s CEO George Cheeks after months of tense relationships.
In a note to the staff, he wrote: “It is clear that the company and I do not agree on the way to forward.”
McMahon’s departure follows the “60 -minute” executive producer of a long time ago, Bill Owens, who also resigned from concern about editorial independence.
An Insider CBS said in the publication: “Wendy’s departure means that the mediation of Trump’s demand must be quickly moved and an agreement will be made.”
McMahon’s mandate to CBS had already been Rocky. He oversaw a controversial revision of the night news line, eliminating the anchor Norah O’Donnell in favor of the lesser-known journalists John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois-Decisions that coincide with a fall in valuations.
According to reports, night news program has an average less than 4 million viewers.
From 2025, around 20 to 22 million people see the evening news in the three major broadcasting networks, with the “World Night News” of ABC about 9 million spectators, followed by NBC “night news” with 6 to 7 million and “News” of CBS with about 4 million.
McMahon also faced Backlash after suppressing the anchor Tony Dokoupil for an interview with the author Ta-Pehisi Coates on the Israel-Hamas conflict, an incident that supposedly led to the disapproval of Redstone.
Adrienne Roark, a highest publishing executive and the closure of McMahon Ally, also resigned shortly before McMahon’s departure and is expected to play a role in Tegna.
CBS’s CEO George Cheek announced that McMahon’s functions would be divided between CBS News President, Tom Cibrowski and CBS President Jennifer Mitchell.
In his farewell note, McMahon described his time in CBS as “one of the most significant chapters of my career”, and praised “commitment to truth, equity and highest standards”.
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