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'60 Minutes' Calls Out Its Own Parent Company After Producer Quits Over Scrutiny Of Show’s Trump Coverage
'60 Minutes' Calls Out Its Own Parent Company After Producer Quits Over Scrutiny Of Show’s Trump Coverage

60 Minutes, the long-running CBS News program, ended Sunday night’s broadcast with an extraordinary rebuke of its own parent company, Paramount Global , for caving to pressure from the Trump administration. The criticism from 60 Minutes comes after the program’s longtime executive producer resigned over a lack of freedom in covering President Donald Trump. ’60 Minutes’ reporter calls out corporate bosses in on-air rebuke In the final segment of 60 Minutes ’ broadcast Sunday, correspondent Scott Pelley used the program’s “Last Minute” segment to honor the program’s recently resigned executive producer, Bill Owens, who left the program earlier this week after he “lost the independence that honest journalism required” amid coverage of polarizing topics like the war in Gaza and the Trump administration. “Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger,” Pelley explained, and “the Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways.”...

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