'Irony' as Trump's $20B lawsuit goal earns Emmy nomination

[ad_1] Not everybody believes CBS Information staffers must be celebrating the controversial "60 Minutes" interview on the heart of President Donald Trump's high-stakes lawsuit touchdown an Emmy nomination.

The nominations for the forty sixth Information & Documentary Emmy Awards have been introduced this week and "60 Minutes" landed a number of nods, most notably within the Excellent Edited Interview class for its primetime particular that includes then-Vice President Kamala Harris and her operating mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Trump is in search of $20 billion from CBS Information and its father or mother firm, Paramount World, for what he alleged was election interference with how the community edited its interview with Harris within the days main as much as the presidential election.

"CBS Night Information" government producer Man Campanile took to social media to declare the nomination a "mic drop," however one insider doesn’t imagine the nomination will assist issues from a authorized standpoint.

'60 MINUTES' KAMALA HARRIS INTERVIEW AT THE CENTER OF TRUMP'S CBS LAWSUIT RECEIVES EMMY NOMINATION

The controversial "60 Minutes" interview that includes then-Vice President Kamala Harris was nominated for an Emmy for Excellent Edited Interview. (ROBYN BECK/AFP by way of Getty Photos; Screenshots/CBS Information)

"The irony is, some people at ‘60 Minutes’ are popping champagne over an Emmy nomination — for a similar interview that landed them in authorized scorching water. It’s a reminder that these awards are voted on by different journalists, not the general public, not their bosses — and definitely not legal professionals," a supply aware of the interior workings of CBS Information informed Fox Information Digital.

As the 2 sides have entered mediation in hopes of reaching a settlement, many authorized and journalism aficionados have recommended the lawsuit is bogus and could be a lot ado about nothing if Paramount World controlling shareholder Shari Redstone didn’t wish to settle the go well with forward of a deliberate multibillion-dollar merger with Skydance Media.

It's broadly believed that Redstone hopes to forestall potential retribution by the Federal Communications Fee (FCC), which has the authority to halt the transaction. The ordeal has CBS Information staffers "on edge," and the supply believes the corporate introduced this on themselves.

"We live in severe instances when there are a lot greater and extra necessary points and forces at play. The threats to a free and unbiased press are actual, and this lawsuit is only one facet of that. However the actuality of the scenario is that it wasn’t a very good interview and that’s how they bought themselves into this predicament within the first place," the supply stated.

"It gave Trump a gap, and he took it," they continued. "It was to wedge a wrench within the gears that make the ‘60 Minutes’ clock tick."

CBS NEWS IN CHAOS SINCE DEPARTURE OF ‘60 MINUTES’ PRODUCER, WAITING FOR THE NEXT SHOE TO DROP, INSIDER SAYS

<img src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/10/1200/675/trump-60-mins-harris.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" alt="The Donald Trump campaign released a scathing statement in response to a defiant "60 Minutes" comment about its controversial edit of its interview with Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this month, saying the show had essentially admitted to making her sound better and calling on the CBS show to release a full transcript of the interview." width="1200" height="675"/> President Trump and others weren't happy with CBS Information’ "60 Minutes" over controversial edit of its interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. (Left: (Picture by Spencer Platt/Getty Photos), Middle: Screenshot/60Minutes, Proper: (Picture by Andy Manis/Getty Photos))

The lawsuit stems from an change Harris had with "60 Minutes" correspondent Invoice Whitaker, when he requested her why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn't "listening" to the Biden administration.

Harris was broadly mocked for the "phrase salad" reply that aired in a preview clip of the interview on "Face the Nation." Nonetheless, when Whitaker was proven asking the identical query through the primetime particular the next evening, Harris had a special, extra concise response.

Critics on the time accused CBS Information of enhancing Harris' "phrase salad" reply to protect the presidential candidate from additional backlash main as much as Election Day.

Earlier this 12 months, FCC Chair Brendan Carr ordered CBS Information handy over the unedited transcript of the interview as a part of its investigation into whether or not the community violated the FCC's "information distortion" coverage after a criticism was filed. CBS had refused to launch the unedited transcript when the controversy first started.

‘60 MINUTES’ CALLS OUT CORPORATE OWNER PARAMOUNT ON THE AIR, SAYS PRODUCER WHO QUIT FELT INTERFERED WITH

President Trump is in search of $20 billion in a lawsuit towards CBS, alleging election interference over its dealing with of a "60 Minutes" interview final 12 months with Vice President Kamala Harris. (Left: (Picture by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos), Proper: (Picture by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Photos), Proper: Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)

The launched uncooked transcript and pictures confirmed that each units of Harris' feedback got here from the identical response, however CBS Information had aired solely the primary half of her response within the "Face the Nation" preview clip and aired the second half through the primetime particular.

"60 Minutes" government producer Invoice Owens, who on the time refused to apologize for the Harris interview, resigned final week citing company strain stopping him from sustaining editorial independence.

White Home communications director Steven Cheung mocked the interview on the heart of the ordeal receiving an Emmy nomination.

"In fact it’s nominated for finest enhancing as a result of it takes some severe expertise to edit Kamala’s reply into one thing that’s coherent and comprehensible, which in the long run they nonetheless didn't do," Cheung informed Fox Information Digital.

Emmy nominees are judged by a "pool of greater than 980 peer professionals from throughout the TV and streaming/digital media information and documentary trade," in keeping with Deadline.

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