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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Bill Owens, 60 Minutes producer, has resigned
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:23:25 -0000 (UTC)
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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>60 Minutes offended Trump for an edited interview with Kamala Harris to
>show her in a less unfavorable light. In a baseless lawsuit, Trump sued
>CBS for $20 billion lawsuit. The Redstone family, which privately holds
>the Viacom holding company (whatever it's called this week), wants to
>sell out to Skydance, owned by the son of Larry Ellison. The media has
>been speculating that the Redstones are sucking up to Trump like
>everybody else so that the federal government won't regulate the merger
>to death.

>The lawsuit has been neither dismissed nor settled.

>Bill Owens claims he's under too much corporate pressure to produce 60
>Minutes independently. He has resigned.

>I never bothered to track down the interview but if he did what he's
>accused of, I'm not seeing that he was behaving like an unbiasted
>journalist.

>https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5261067-bill-owens-cbs-60-minutes-resignation/
>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/media/cbs-60-minutes-trump-bill-owens.html

Scott Pelley paid tribute to Bill Owens on air, and stated that "none of
us is happy" now that corporate appointed Susan Zirinsky, a longtime
news producer, to review stories before they air, giving corporate a
veto over the choice of stories made by the 60 Minutes executive
producer.

https://apnews.com/article/cbs-trump-60-minutes-pelley-ce93eec7f2dc9c9c72f2d598f6bdf816