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The presenter of CBS News, John Dickerson, lamented the billionaire agreement of the parent company Paramount with President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
“Paramount Global, the CBS News parent company, established a lawsuit with President Trump today,” Dickerson said in CBS Evening News Plus, a news program in its transmission service. “Journalists do not like to inform themselves. Sometimes it is a false humility. It is mostly a practical limitation. Journalists try to find order in chaos.”
Dickerson said that the agreement and the similar ones hinder the capacity of the press to “retain the power to account.”
“Paramount's settlement raises a new obstacle,” said Dickerson. “Can you take responsibility for power after paying millions? Can an audience trust you when you think you have changed that trust? The audience will decide that our work is to appear to honor what we witness.”
CBS agreement with Trump criticized by journalists, commentators as a “terrible” surrender
John Dickerson hits Paramount's settlement. (Screen capture/cbs News)
Fox News Digital has learned that the sum paid to Trump could reach the north of $ 30 million with $ 16 million paid in advance by its future presidential library, in addition to another allocation in the eight figures reserved for advertisements, advertisements of public services or other similar transmissions, in support of the conservative causes by the network in the future.
The current management of Paramount disputes the additional assignment, and a source familiar with the current Paramount leadership told Fox New Digital only $ 16 million were sanctioned by the official mediator, and they have no knowledge of any agreement that Trump has made with the incoming property, since Paramount will merge with the parachute means of David Ellison. However, Fox News Digital has learned that incoming property will be responsible for the additional assignment.
During the “CBS Evening News” program, which is broadcast on television broadcast to a much broader audience, Dickerson had less to say about the agreement.
“In the end, Paramount decided to resolve a lawsuit that said it has no basis on the law and the fact and an affront to the first amendment,” said Dickerson, citing a previous presentation of Paramount.
The '60 minutes' correspondent, Scott Pelley, warns that a CBS settlement with Trump would be 'very harmful' ''
President Donald Trump will receive $ 16 million from the demand for “electoral interference” against CBS for the management of an “60 minutes” interview last year with the then Vice President Kamala Harris. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, INC)
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Initially, Trump sought $ 20 billion in his lawsuit against CBS for the management of an “60 minutes” interview last year with the then Vice President Kamala Harris, accusing the electoral interference network that led to the 2024 contest. CBS does not recognize any journalistic irregularity with the agreement.
