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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by seek on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:38AM (#43531113)
> In a $10 billion lawsuit against 60 Minutes and its parent Paramount, Trump claims they selectively edited an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris prior to the 2024 election. The TV news show last month published transcripts of the interview at the heart of the dispute, but Paramount is reportedly considering a settlement to avoid potentially damaging its chances of winning the administration’s approval for a pending multibillion-dollar merger.

`Trump "claims" they selectively edited`. This is intellectually dishonest of the OP to say this. It is clear from the published original transcript, it is clear that they did in fact swap out Harris' nonsensical reply to some critical questions with something else she spoke 20-30 mins prior to make it sound like she gave a coherent answer. This is obvious for anyone looking at the original raw footage published by PBS.

Why is the OP saying "Trump claims" when it has in fact been proven to be true? He makes it sound like PBS folks did real journalistic work and Trump is trying to use his power in government to intimidate well-meaning journalists. That is not true.

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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by alsaaro on Monday March 31, 2025 @02:52AM (#43531966)
Even if true this is irrelevant, the first amendment is agnostic to truth or good propriety.
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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by croes on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:56AM (#43531220)
Because that’s the claim of the lawsuit.
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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by benmmurphy on Monday March 31, 2025 @04:52AM (#43532731)
I think these lawsuits with large damages against media companies are going in a bad direction. But this also includes the lawsuit against Alex Jones and the Covington kids lawsuit but I don't think you will find many people that have some kind of consistent principal when dealing with this. They will just have some magic rule that will mean the law suit against Alex Jones is good and Trump's law suit is bad or vice versa. There is even a similar thing going with this list of 1A violations from the current administration. Similar things went on with the last administration but I didn't see a Kreb's summary post but maybe I missed it.
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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by insane_dreamer on Monday March 31, 2025 @09:30PM (#43541921)
Unless a lawsuit is settled with either a ruling or an admission of guilt in a settlement, it is a "claim".

It's the same reason news articles always use "alleged".

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