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Media representation group Freedom of the Press Foundation has sent A Warning letter To Paramount Mogul Shari Redstone, in which plans submit a lawsuit when the media company is making a lawsuit President Donald Trump against his subsidiary CBS.
“Companies that take news about themselves should not go in business, to pay unfounded complaints that clearly violate the first change,” said Seth Stern, director of the Press Foundation of the Press Foundation of Advocacy.
Stern published the warning by asking for a legal dispute on Friday afternoon and demanding that Paramount keep all documents in connection with a potential Trump deal and asked the company not to pay. The non -profit organization can request compensation because it has shares of Paramount. It is planned to act on the name of themselves and other shareholders, and claim that the agreement is violated by the company’s managers against their trust obligations and the waste of corporate assets by behaviors, of which the US sensors and others believe that there is an illegal bribery that deals with the scope of the business judgment. ” The white house and paramount did not react immediately to inquiries about comments.
Last October, President Trump Paramount Daughter Societies CBS Broadcasting and CBS Interactive and claimed an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris, which was broadcast in the long -term CBS news program 60 minutes Was deceptively edited, in a way that constitutes the election disorders. Initially, Trump applied for $ 10 billion and changed the lawsuit in February to request $ 20 billion. Paramount Global has a market capitalization of around 8.5 billion US dollars.
Although of the greatest importance previously named The complaint “An affront to the first change” in legal submissions to reject this March has reportedly tried to pay. The company has a potentially lucrative fusion that is pending with Hollywood Studio Skydance and which would require the signing of the Trump government.
Last week the democratic senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Ron Wyden sent a letter To Redstone, who is looking for information about a possible agreement and pronounces concerns that this would be bribe. “If the Paramount officials make these concessions in a strong Pro Quo agreement to influence President Trump or other administrative officials,” she wrote, “you may violate the law.”
The conversations about a possible agreement had been CBS for months. Long -term 60 minutes The executing producer Bill Owens resigned abruptly in April, and CBS News President and CEO Wendy McMahon resigned in the early this month. “It is clear that the company became clear and I do not agree on one way”, she ” wrote In a memo to the employees at that time.
Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount is not an isolated attack on the media. He sued ABC News owned by Walt Disney Company for defamation in March 2024 for comments from the Anchor George Stephanopoulos, which represented the president as “liable for rape”. (A federal jury found President Trump in a civil proceedings from 2023 for sexual assault, but not rape.) The company settled The case in December. Trump at the end of April Posted comments On his social platform truth, which the New York Times seemed to be threatened with the possibility of legal steps in the future.
