United Kingdom-based newspapers accuse CBS of 'dishonest misrepresentation' during Oprah interview

A group of United Kingdom-based newspapers accused CBS of taking headlines out of context during Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's highly publicized tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey during a "misleading montage" designed to deceive viewers.  

The letter sent Friday and obtained by Fox News began with CBS’ internal messaging about the network putting an emphasis on accuracy and integrity but notes the recent special didn’t meet the network’s standards. "As a responsible broadcaster with integrity we believe therefore that you will deprecate, as we do, the deliberate distortion and doctoring of newspaper headlines in the misleading montage of British newspapers broadcast in ‘Oprah with Meghan and Harry.’ Many of the headlines have been either taken out of context or deliberately edited and displayed as supporting evidence for the programme’s claim that the Duchess of Sussex was subjected to racist coverage by the British press. This editing was not made apparent to viewers and, as a result, this section of the programme is both seriously inaccurate and misleading," Associated Newspapers legal director Elizabeth Hartley wrote.