'60 Minutes' call for executive producers to exit in rare live rebukes

The top 98% of the “60 Minutes” aired on Sunday on CBS seemed to be fine. But the remaining 2% may have shocked the audience.

In the “Last Minute” section of the show, correspondent Scott Pelley told listeners that the program's executive producer Bill Owens, who chose CBS News' parent Paramount Global last week, tried to navigate the merger and did the “60 Minutes” review, while also promoting and promoting the Promies the Promises the Provies warries warries warries warric and the Prowaz, who investigated Prom.

“Paramount started monitoring our content in new ways. None of our stories were stopped, but Bill felt he lost the independence that honest journalism required,” Paley said. “No one here is happy about it.”

The segment offers a rare example of a “60 Minute” staff criticizing the parent company's management of news magazines, one of the most watched TV shows and one of the most respected vehicles for journalists, and the show opens its inner workings to audiences who have not known for most weeks.

Owens, just the third executive producer in the nearly six-decade history of the show, surprised many last week by saying he intended to leave the program, citing an increasing lack of ability “to make independent decisions based on what was right for '60 Minutes,' right for the audience” as parent company Paramount Global tries to move past a lawsuit filed against CBS News by President Donald Trump and secure Its future in a merger with Skydance Media. The issue has been Paramount controlling shareholder Shari Redstone looking for a way to find a way to go beyond what is seen as slow regulatory action approval to go through Skydance President Trump, who filed a lawsuit in federal court in the northern region in November in amid a to-do list of her company acquisition, alleging “ The President of 60 Minutes tried to misunderstand the two misleading voters to misunderstand the two misleading voters to misunderstand the Eds, which was an objection to Eds. Harris, then a rival to Trump. CBS has tried to withdraw the case, and many legal experts say the lawsuit is fragile.

Paramount held a new editorial oversight on CBS News in January, named Susan Zirinsky, a senior producer and former CBS News Chairman, as a “temporary executive editor”, was assigned as a supervisory standard and helped review story and journalistic practices. The new character was created after a series of controversies related to CBS news coverage, including “60 Minutes” and “CBS Mornings.” However, the structure is shocking for those who put “60 minutes” together every week. Owens said Tuesday he faces an increasingly lack of the ability to make independent decisions “based on 60 minutes of correctness, “based on the correctness of the audience.”

The show enjoys unprecedented levels of autonomy over nearly six decades of play, and although it has long sifted its own stories for legal review and adhered to news standards, it has been allowed to go to the police. Suddenly, the producer is asked to include others in its process. In this case, Al Ortiz, former senior CBS News producer and head of news standards and practice, is helping to review the story, according to three people familiar with the matter. The men said Ortiz had a affectionate relationship with Owens in the past and had respect throughout his career, but his emerging producer of Left Shows believes they were under surveillance by outsiders and did not fully focus on the program. Owens' resignation was seen by “60 Minutes Employees” as a warning sign of the potential erosion of the business's credibility into the news magazine.

“Bill resigned Tuesday. It's hard for him, it's hard for us,” Paley said. “But he did it for us.”

News hosts are not often abandoned to criticize companies that pay their salaries on company-owned vehicles. However, over the past year, more news personnel have been taken to longer belts.

MSNBC and parents NBCUniversal allowed many of MSNBC's most famous anchors, including Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace and Joe Scarborough and Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who decided on the NBC News Agency's decision to hire former Republican handcraft figure Ronna McDaniel as a news analyst. McDaniel's reputation is under a microscope, but seeing the anchor parade of the anchors of the anchors by the employer and manager is an ecstatic reliefist. That same year, Disney's ESPN had to compete with host Pat McAfee, a rampant host who was invited by former senior senior director Norby Williamson, who claimed he was trying to undermine his plans.

In the past, behaviors considered to be tempted by mild rebellion were punished. Josh Elliott, a former member of the “Good Morning America” team, arrived at CBS News after the NBC Sports game, becoming a new streaming job in Paramount’s global division, then called CBSN. But he was promoted one day in 2017 to work from CBS News Linear Property without having to do that from executives. The anchor on the door is not displayed with a new table, but rather the door is displayed. Brooke Baldwin’s decision posted on Instagram in 2020, her afternoon CNN plan has been pruned to campaign coverage, and the decision that was said to be “not my choice” was “not my choice”, which angered senior executives in the media. She left CNN in 2021 after being popular among the audience.

The 60 Minutes of anger is obvious. Correspondent Lesley Stahl told type Last week, “I’ve realized the disruption to our news process and raised questions about our judgment,” he added: “That’s not the way companies that have news organizations should take action.”

Pelley's choice of messaging on airing may be apt. In the past, anchors have never been afraid of challenging CBS news management. In 2019, Pelley aired CNN's new “Reliable Source” media program in 2017 after complaining internally about the workplace culture of the news department, and he was canceled in 2017 Nights. Stop complaining to management about a hostile work environment. ”

Pelley is also close to Owens. Although the two reported from Iraq in 2003, Owens sprinted to give Paley a gas mask after hearing the overhead of the explosion, fearing that the anchor would be hurt by a chemical attack. “It turns out that the shell that exploded on our heads was not a chemical weapon,” Paley recalls type In 2020. “But he doesn't know.”