Posted on 04/29/2025 4:18:00 AM PDT by Racketeer
Scott Pelley ended @60Minutes by lamenting the resignation of Executive Producer Bill Owens who “did it for us and you.” Pelley ludicrously claimed Owens made sure stories on Israel and the Trump admin “were accurate and fair.” Pelley complained: “Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways. None of our stories has been blocked, but Bill felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires.”
I have not watched 60 Minutes in over 30 years. How does it stay afloat?
I think the walls are closing in. This could be the beginning of the end.
“honest journalism”
lol.
“....Bill felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires.”
IOW, he couldn’t accept the idea that HE WAS NOT THE BOSS...............
“... he lost the independence that honest journalism requires.”
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In theory, on paper, it sounds nice.
In reality, what it is blatantly slathered with bias sauce.
If you did objective reporting, not only on what you cover, but what you don’t and how you cover it, you shouldn’t ever have to worry about a network getting nervous about your content. Either it’s lawyers or it’s managers.
What a network always wants is success and ratings.
If what you are doing isn’t helping to produce those, you have to ask yourself why!
What are your actual motives?
Independence? Yes
Honest journalism? NO
CBSGnus is a clown show, now. Edward R. Murrow would be PO’ed.
later
I cannot listen to that condescending POS.
did bill have anything to do with the harris interview?
Only benefit of watching 60 Minutes is it’s a lesson of what news isn’t about it’s more about propaganda and pimping the democrat party socialism and how evil money is unless your a democrat and have it lots and lots of it to help the comrades.
I don’t want Trump to settle his suit with CBS.
Neither does Pelley and his Jurassic colleagues.
Pelley’s comments are working for me in that regard.
My advice to Pelley, keep up the resistance dude, I like the end game here.
Pelley is upping his visibility on this because he wants to attempt to insulate himself for being next on the chopping block thinking they wouldn’t fire such a high visibility employee.
This integrity-free fool talks of “honest journalism”??? He wouldn’t know what that is if it was glued to his pathetic face.
Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and Eric Sevareid were as leftist as are the current crop of CBS “reporters”. The only difference is that they were better able to hide their biases and most Americans trusted the broadcast and print media. Don’t forget that Murrow’s smears underminded Senator Joseph McCarthy and Cronkite sabotaged our Vietnam War effort by overplaying Viet Cong success in the Tet Offensive.
Indeed, they used to hide their bias and pretend they weren't biased. Notice the evolution to today, Psaki says they are 100% biased because that's what their audience wants.
The left’s view of “democracy” has not changed.
1. Brainwash the masses with leftist propaganda.
2. The brainwashed peons vote for leftist candidates.
60Min was corrupt from the beginning. Nothing but left-wing partisanship. I watched it closely for the 1st year — yeah, I am that old. WUT’s yer point?
Anyhoo, in the 2nd year I noticed that every episode about any sort of STEM issue was a pack of lies. Haven’t watched it since.
We used to watch 60 minutes every week but for the last few years they are unwatchable as so biased and LEFT WING.
Same, it's become unwatchable due solely to the extreme leftist bias in every aspect, story choice, story content, story participants, story commentary.
This is an odd thing to say, as it implies that those who remain are not independent or honest.
The reality is that the Paramount bosses are concerned about a particular libel lawsuit, where it is pretty clear that 60 Minutes was not independent or honest. Therefore, you can kind of conclude that Bill Owens realizes that his days of fronting for the Democrat Party are coming to an end.
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