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CBS News is presently facing backlash connected societal media aft they posted what appeared to beryllium an advertisement for "No Kings Day" protest merchandise to X connected Friday, with users slamming the outlet for pushing the anti-Trump goods connected the eve of a large-scale governmental protest.
Thousands of radical are expected to rally successful hundreds of cities crossed America connected Saturday to protestation the Trump administration and antagonistic the president’s subject parade successful Washington, D.C. to people the Army’s 250th birthday. Today is besides Flag Day, which commemorates the adoption of the U.S. emblem connected June 14, 1777.
The counter-protesters are framing their demonstrations nether the slogan "No Kings," describing it arsenic a "day of defiance" against President Donald Trump and his allies portion others person been calling for the president to beryllium "dethroned."
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT TODAY’S ‘NO KINGS’ ANTI-TRUMP RALLIES ACROSS THE US
Author and Senior Analyst for strategy astatine the Center for Security Policy, J. Michael Waller, slammed CBS quality for selling "radical merchandise connected eve of nationwide protest/riot."
Another X user, Bonchie, a writer for the blimpish quality outlet RedState, mocked the quality outlet for "doing escaped advertisements for Chinese-made, left-wing protestation merch."
Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist and a Fox News contributor, criticized the wide quality outlet for "no longer adjacent remotely pretending to beryllium news" and for embracing its relation arsenic "Democrat propagandists."
Another X idiosyncratic questioned whether CBS News "advertising merch for a governmental event" violates immoderate Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guidelines, slamming the outlet's determination for being "highly unethical."
This is not the lone contention CBS News is presently embroiled in.
In May, CBS News President and CEO Wendy McMahon announced she was stepping down successful a stunning determination for the embattled company.
Her exit follows that of longtime "60 Minutes" shaper Bill Owens, who discontinue the anterior period due to the fact that helium felt he'd mislaid journalistic independency amid an ongoing ineligible conflict with Trump.
'60 MINUTES' CORRESPONDENT SCOTT PELLEY WARNS A CBS SETTLEMENT WITH TRUMP WOULD BE 'VERY DAMAGING'
In different stroke to the troubled company, "60 Minutes" analogous Scott Pelley spoke retired astir President Donald Trump's suit against CBS and its genitor institution past Saturday, arguing that a colony would beryllium "very damaging."
"60 Minutes" analogous Scott Pelley told CNN's Anderson Cooper connected Saturday that CBS settling with President Trump could beryllium "very damaging". (David M. Russell/CBS via Getty Images)
"Well, it’d beryllium precise damaging to CBS, to Paramount, to the estimation of those companies," Pelley said during a speech with CNN's Anderson Cooper connected Saturday, who asked however harmful a settlement and imaginable apology would beryllium to the network.
Trump filed a suit against Paramount Global, CBS News' genitor company, implicit a "60 Minutes" interrogation with erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris successful October 2024. Fox News Digital confirmed that Trump rejected a $15 cardinal connection to settee his lawsuit, according to a root acquainted with the matter, arsenic the president's ineligible squad is besides demanding astatine slightest $25 cardinal and an apology from CBS News.
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Fox News Digital has reached retired to CBS News for remark regarding their nonfiction connected "No Kings Day" merchandise.
Fox News' Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
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