Last week, Bill Owens, the executive producer of CBS’ flagship news program 60 Minutes, resigned, “citing encroachments on his journalistic independence,” per The New York Times. In the first show since the news of Owens’ resignation broke, 60 Minutes ended the program with a glowing, if dubious, tribute to Owens that has since gone viral online. The program took the unusual step of alleging unethical behavior by CBS’ corporate parent Paramount for Owens’ resignation, though they didn’t present any direct evidence of this. And the facts suggest that Owens isn’t exactly the paragon of integrity he’s being made out to be.
The proximate cause for said encroachments is widely assumed to be politics. According to the Times, “Paramount’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, is eager to secure the Trump administration’s approval for a multibillion-dollar sale of her company to Skydance, a company run by the son of the tech billionaire Larry Ellison.”
Supposedly, Redstone has also expressed a desire to settle Donald Trump’s case against 60 Minutes over allegations they deceptively edited their interview with Kamala Harris last fall. Though the Times is loathe to discuss it, there’s also lots of speculation that Redstone, an observant Jew, was less than thrilled when 60 Minutes recently ran an offensively stupid segment where veteran reporter Leslie Stahl asked a freed Israeli hostage if his Hamas captors starved him unintentionally because Hamas ran out of food. It’s well established that Hamas steals and hoards all the food and aid coming into Gaza, and it beggars belief that anyone, let alone someone who gets paid millions by a news network, would think a terrorist organization deserves the benefit of the doubt. And further, that layers of producers and editors would put this on the air. more here
try telling the truth instead of spewing pedocrat bullshit
I’ve paid zero attention to 60 Mins ever since they fscked Audi in the ass, dry, when they faked footage of the Audi 5000’s ‘unintended acceleration.’ That was almost 40 years ago. You know what I miss about CBS? Not one damned thing.
CBS making accusations without proof? Isn’t that their stock in trade?
They have never told the truth since the 60s.
It’s hard to get into the minds of these limo communist narcissist pedophiles.
“They have never told the truth since the 60s.”
“They have never told the truth.”
Fixed it for ya!
They are not even purveyors of facts, much less truth.
Constantly broadcasting shit.