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Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge - Media Transparency
Last year, I called for more transparency @60Minutes about its October 2023 interview with President Biden.
Now we learn via @nytimes even the owner Shari Redstone had concerns.
Releasing the raw video and transcripts from the Biden interview would address the larger question of whether there is a pattern and practice @CBSNews of heavy-handed editing to make some politicians look better and other politicians look worse. In this case, did editing conceal President Biden’s cognitive decline?
As the senior investigative correspondent at CBS News, I was assigned to the Hunter Biden story.
I was told by George Cheeks the reporting was a high priority for the network and for his boss, Redstone, who wanted more balanced coverage on CBS.
I was stunned by the obstruction and bias of some senior CBS News executives who resisted the balanced coverage Redstone had called for.
Via @nytimes
Redstone: “We needed more balance.”
"Ms. Redstone said CBS personnel had told her that in October 2023, when Scott Pelley of “60 Minutes” interviewed President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the president had seemed drowsy and had to be prodded to answer. She and Tyler worried that CBS might be accused of editing the interview to conceal Mr. Biden’s failings.
“This case was never as black-and-white as people assumed,” Ms. Redstone said.
One person who witnessed the interview in person, and another who recently reviewed the raw footage, said the Redstones’ concerns about the Biden interview were overblown. Mr. Biden gave some typically circuitous answers, but he never had to be prodded, they said. On air, Mr. Pelley characterized Mr. Biden as seeming “tired.”
A spokesman for CBS declined to comment."
https://nytimes.com/2025/08/19/business/media/shari-redstone-paramount-trump-settlement.html
https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/1957868313696248203