CBS News has released the full interview with Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt after he publicly vowed to boycott the network over what he called politically motivated editing.
According to Just The News, the controversy erupted when Pratt accused the network of caving to pressure from his opponent, Democratic Rep. Karen Bass, after a prior debate fact-check embarrassed her over claims about the Palisades Fire. "After CBS embarrassed Karen Bass by fact-checking her debate lies about the Palisades Fire, they clearly got the call. CBS filmed with me on my burned out lot for over an hour, and they turned it over to Karen Bass PR team to edit it into a comical 5 minute hit piece with clips from 'The Hills,'" Pratt wrote on social media.
Pratt, running a populist, outsider campaign in a city long dominated by progressive leadership, framed the episode as part of a broader pattern of media bias against conservative-leaning reformers. "They cant beat my ideas, they cant beat me in the debates, so they gotta try to turn my campaign into a sideshow."
He went further, signaling a long-term break with the network and appealing directly to voters and alternative outlets outside the legacy media ecosystem. He continued, writing, "People are done with these skeezy political tricks, and Im done with CBS. Theyll never get a word from me for my next 8 years as mayor. Adios! What outlet should I have in their absence?"
After public pressure and scrutiny, CBS posted the full, unedited interview, a move Pratt publicly praised as a step toward transparency. "A new era of responsible journalism! Thank you to CBS for posting our full interview so the voters can hear from their next Mayor!" he wrote, underscoring conservatives longstanding demand that corporate media show voters the raw facts and let them decide for themselves.
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