CBS bestreitet, Stephen Colbert gezwungen zu haben, ein Interview mit einem demokratischen Kandidaten nicht auszustrahlen, und sagt, es habe „rechtliche Hinweise“ zur FCC-Equal-Time-Regel gegeben
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/cbs-denies-stephen-colbert-forced-not-air-talarico-interview-fcc-equal-time-1236665701/
38 Kommentare
Hmmm. Who do I believe….
I can smell the bullshit on this one all the way from Canada.
I trust Stephen
CBS denies the truth. More at 11.
They’re really splitting hairs. „We didn’t threaten him, we just told him there might be certain… Repercussions…. If he were to air the interview“
There is no “Equal Time Rule.” The fairness doctrine went away a long time ago, and it’s why we are cursed with Fox News.
I wish Colbert would have just defied them and aired the interview anyway.
Force them to pull the entire episode if they were so desperate to comply with something that wasn’t even yet mandatory.
Basically, their legal guidance is that if they air it, they are gonna get sued.
If they get sued, they’ll say he went rogue and that the network is not at fault.
Oh man, hard to tell which one is lying.
So he can show it now?
Has fox or Newsmax heard about this equal time rule?
Fuck CBS! I don’t even watch the local news anymore on KCBS or KCAL!
CBS are liars, I trust Colbert and his people more than the wannabe Fox News station.
CBS is obviously lying; I don’t believe Colbert would lie about this.
„OH NO CONSEQUENCES? Uh…we didn’t do it.“ -Ancient Corporate Proverb
he might want to end his show early and dont care.. im sure he already has a new job im sure and it will be even better
Since I can’t use reaction images here I’ll just type it out: Horton hears a bitch ass liar.
“If you air this you will be sued into oblivion” see, that’s not us saying that you can’t air it, it’s just us saying that we will be respond to you airing it with legal action. No one was ‘forced’ to do anything!
Pure CENSORSHIP
Now CBS wants to avoid a backlash!!!
Trump raped those girls on Trumpstein Island.
i believe, if a military commander suggests something, you should consider it an order
Berry Weiss, friend of the show
Anything that CBS says just immediately assume it’s a lie cause it almost always is.
Equal time rule?
The one that the GOP president in the 1980s got rid of so that Fox News and rush Limbaugh could say anything without giving fair equal time?
That rule?
Cool. Call their bluff by having him on again this week.
‚Legal guidance’… as in a lawyer or a team of them, calling him up and telling him how much trouble he will be in if he does something specific?
CBS openly lying to the public now. A new low for a once respectable network.
Republican censorship. Over and over story after story Republicans changing the laws so people don’t talk bad about them. It’s a sad state of affairs in America. After a bunch of idiot, Americans voted for Don the treasonous con all of the fears and worries are now coming true. Thanks again dumb ass America.
Why is this equal time rule suddenly a thing?
Land of the free amiright
Nothing stopping them from putting it up on YouTube. FCC has no say there iirc
He outed C BS now it’s all cya
And the Equal Time provision specifically excludes talk shows. It’s CBS fealty to Trump.
Either way, Colbert utilized the Streisand effect to great…effect here. More people will see the interview due to the “controversy”
CBS are a bunch of flip flops, while they love the money they don’t want the risk of showing truthful interviews. They should be bold and fight back.
I feel like there’s an email out there that would clear up the confusion
Of course they did.
Oh cool so they can air it then!