FCC Dismisses News Bias Complaint Over Harris 60 Minutes Clip

Jan. 16, 2025, 3:51 PM UTC

US Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel dismissed a complaint over CBS’s alleged editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

The complaint, filed in October by the Center for American Rights, said that in two versions of the same interview, Harris can be heard giving “two conflicting responses” to a question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The group had asked the FCC to compel CBS to release the full interview transcript.

“The Commission does not — and cannot and will not — act as a self-appointed, free-roving arbiter of truth in journalism,” Rosenworcel ...

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