'Face the Nation': Live Interviews Only After Noem Pushback
Face the Nation will conduct only live interviews from now on after recent complaints from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, CBS said in a statement. "In response to audience feedback over the past week, we have implemented a new policy…
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for greater transparency in our interviews," it said. Face the Nation "will now only broadcast live or live-to-tape interviews (subject to national security or legal restrictions). This extra measure means the television audience will see the full, unedited interview on CBS, and we will continue our practice of posting full transcripts and the unedited video online." Face the Nation's interview with Noem was the subject of a recent letter to the FCC from the Center of American Rights (see 2509020066).