Long -term 60 minutes Correspondent Leslie Stall fully expects the settlement of Donald Trump’s “frivolous” case of $ 20 billion, but she is afraid of what will follow the case.
“I’m starting to think about mourning, grieving,” Stall said in an interview with a podcast with New York Editor David Remnik. “I know there will be an agreement,” she added, “I know there will be money exchanged,” given that Shari Redstone, controlling the shareholder of Party Paramount Global, needs the government’s approval for the Skydance pending merger. (Deadline announced on Wednesday that Paramount has made an eight -digit settlement offer that has been rejected by Trump.)
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Following the agreement, he stood speculates: “We hope we will still be around, turn a new page and understand what this new page will look like.”
Trump has filed a pre -election episode case of 60 minutes Even after defeating Kamala Harris and winning a re -election last November. He claims that CBS News was wrong by serving various interviews with Harris at various CBS retail outlets during the promotion of the segment, something that is a standard practice in television news. Legal experts universally agree that there is no credit for the request, but recently a number of news newspapers have made their corporate parents pay settlements or otherwise capitulate Trump after he puts pressure.
Stall’s comments about Radio hours in New York Come as uncertain about the highest rated CBS Newsmagazine continues to be installed. The longtime executive producer Bill Owens left in April, citing pressure from Redstone and other corporate executives concerned about the Trump show. CBS News Wendy McMahon’s chief also came out recently.
Stal defined the leaving of Owens as “stomach stroke…. One of those strokes you can hardly breathe.” Owens urged employees not to give up and instead continue to advocate for difficult -to -reflect, despite Trump’s deliberate efforts. His requests came as employees openly discussed the “mass” exit of the program, according to Stahl.
Asked if she would expect 60 minutes To change “radically” under the control of Skydance, Stal said he hoped Skydance CEO David Ellison and his executive team “keep the press freedom as a beacon that they understand that they will allow us to be independent and to do the job.
Remnik asked if there was a “very optimism … in 60 minutes This will be the result, “and Stall replied,” No. But there is no very dark thinking. “
During the interview, Stal mourns the constant decline in public confidence in the media, which is intensified by Trump’s tactics. When she once asked him about his intense combat position with reporters, he told her that he was operating this way so that when the negative reports about him, “no one will believe you.” The explanation “Send a cold through me because I thought,” Aunt, he thought it, “she said. “This is not something that is careless, angry mood, because” the press said something yesterday for me. ” It was considered, it was a strategy. “
Stal described that there was “pain in my heart” about the state of her profession for more than five decades after joining CBS News to cover Watergate. (After joining CBS in 1972, she affected 60 minutes In 1991) the average citizen “did not appreciate the importance of a free and strong and difficult press in our democracy,” she said. They do not understand “that we have the function of fulfilling,” she added. “Society does not seem to want what we do to be part of our social life.”
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