Before the resignation of their top boss this week, CBS News staffers had already been bracing themselves for their network to settle the $20 billion lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over the network’s editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris.
In April, CBS’s parent company, Paramount, began mediation with Trump’s representatives, even as some of the network’s leaders internally opposed a deal, which controlling shareholder Shari Redstone had urged. Paramount is seeking government approval to merge with another entertainment conglomerate, Skydance Media, and a settlement is seen internally as a way to ease that process.
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