The Emmy nominations for “news” were announced this week, raising serious questions about the state of journalism in America. CBS earned a nomination in the Outstanding Edited Interview category for its controversial 60 Minutes segment with Kamala Harris in October 2024, which was widely criticized for its deceptive editing. CNN racked up several nominations, including one in the Outstanding Continuing News Coverage category for Donie O’Sullivan’s report on so-called misinformation, which featured an interview with the deranged journalist Taylor Lorenz.
Both nominations were immediately panned by critics. The 60 Minutes interview with Harris is the subject of a $20 billion lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CBS. The two sides began mediation this week in an attempt to settle the case. The Federal Communications Commission is also investigating whether CBS violated its “news distortion” policy by deceptively editing portions of the interview in order to truncate one of Harris’s signature word salads in response to a question about Israel. “Of course it’s nominated for best editing because it takes some serious talent to edit Kamala’s answer into something that’s coherent and understandable, which in the end they still failed to do,” White House communications director Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital.
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O’Sullivan’s nomination is also raising eyebrows on account of Lorenz’s appearance in the three-part series, MisinfoNation: Extreme America. Opponents of murder and other normal Americans slammed Lorenz for suggesting that Luigi Mangione, the alleged assassin who gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was a “handsome [and] morally good man, which is hard to find.” She also bragged about the “audience growth” she experienced after writing and speaking out in defense of murder. For example, she described feeling “joy” after learning of Thompson’s death because, in her view, the health care executive had “murdered … tens of thousands of Americans.” O’Sullivan was criticized for nodding along and giggling like a leprechaun while Lorenz spewed nonsense. He went on to claim that political violence in America was “mostly” the product of “right-wing extremism.”
Lorenz, 40, has a long history of attention-seeking behavior. She got her big break in 2018, when she complained on social media about the quality of the $22 avocado toast she got delivered to her apartment. She enjoys hanging out with children, and was reportedly forced out at the New York Times for antagonizing star reporter Maggie Haberman, who had urged Lorenz to stop her obsessive coverage of Claudia Conway, the 15-year-old daughter of then-White House adviser Kellyanne Conway. She joined the Washington Post in 2022, but was forced out last year after calling Joe Biden a “war criminal” and then lying about it.
Emmy winners will be announced in late June. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and its international affiliates have a history of making dumb decisions based on partisan ideology. Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor of New York, won an international Emmy award in 2020 for his combative anti-Trump press conferences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The prize was revoked the following year after Cuomo resigned amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment. Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic is now generally regarded as an abject failure.
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