The correspondent “60 minutes”, Scott Pelley, paid tribute Sunday to Bill Owens, the executive producer of the show who resigned last weekSaying in the air that “none of us is happy” of the additional supervision that business leaders impose.
Pelley made his comments at the end of the CBS News television of the evening, saying that in order, Owens proved that he was the right person for the position.
“It was difficult for him and it was difficult for us,” said Pelley. “But he did it for us – and you.”
His declaration in ventilation was an unusual overview of behind the scenes of the kind of inner agitation that viewers rarely have the opportunity to see.
Owens, only the third senior director of the 57 years of history of the most influential television television, resigned last week, saying that he was no longer thinking that he had the independence of managing the program as he had done in the past and that we felt necessary.
The mother company of CBS News, Paramount Global, is in the middle of a merger with Skydance Media which needs the approval of the Trump administration. Trump has continued “60 minutes” For $ 20 billion, saying he had unjustly published an interview with Kamala Harris last fall to his advantage. Owens and others at “60 minutes” believe that they did nothing wrong and opposed a regulation.
An additional look at the stories of “60 minutes” before they go
Consequently, Pelley explained to viewers on Sunday, Paramount began to supervise the stories of “60 minutes” of new ways. The former president of CBS News, Susan Zirinsky, producer of long -standing news, would have been invited to examine the stories of the show before their broadcast.
“None of our stories were blocked,” said Pelley. “But Bill felt that he had lost the independence that honest journalism demanded.
Despite this, “60 minutes” did Difficult stories about the Trump administration Almost every week since the inauguration in January, many of them reported Pelley. Sunday, the “60 -minute” correspondent, Sharyn Alfonsi, had the last, interviewing scientists on the reductions of the National Institutes for Health.
Trump was particularly irritated by television of the show two weeks ago, saying on social networks that CBS News should “Pay a high price” To go.
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