Katie Couric , former anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News , said she was “mortified” that President Donald Trump “basically extorted CBS and was successful because they wanted a merger to go through. This is such a dangerous time for a free and independent press and I do really, really worry about that.

“I’m worried about the corporate ownership of a lot of these media companies, the fact they’re they are capitulating to the administration. They’re paying Donald Trump millions of dollars for things that they should never have agreed to. There was nothing wrong with the editing of the Kamala Harris interview on 60 Minutes ,” she said at the Gracies Leadership Awards in New York, an annual event presented by the Alliance for Women in Media .

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