Ex-’60 Minutes’ boss Bill Owens blasts Paramount, CBS News leaders in tell-all: ‘Worst-run media company in the history of America’

NY Post ^ | 6/26/26 | Ariel Zilber

[Libloather]

Former “60 Minutes” executive producer Bill Owens is reportedly writing a tell-all memoir about his 37 years at CBS News, taking aim at owner Paramount, its CEO David Ellison and editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, among others.

In a proposal obtained by Breaker Media, Owens describes Paramount’s decision to settle President Trump’s lawsuit over the editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris as “perhaps the worst legal strategy ever employed by the worst-run media company in the history of America.”

The proposed book would mark Owens’ most extensive public account yet of the turmoil that engulfed CBS News and “60 Minutes” before and after he resigned from the network.

Owens resigned last year after claiming that growing corporate involvement in editorial decisions had deprived him of the independence he believed the executive producer of “60 Minutes” needed to do the job.

According to Breaker, he alleges in the proposal that Paramount had “set up an internal spy ring that the Vichy government would have admired,” claiming scripts and story plans were routinely shared with senior corporate leadership.

As for Trump’s suit, Owens writes: “There wasn’t a lawyer alive who believed the case had merit, and I didn’t want to set a precedent by handing over all of our interviews to the candidate who was pointing a gun at us.”

He accuses Paramount executives of “corporate cowardice” over the settlement, according to Breaker.

Ellison and Weiss also come under fire.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; arielzilber; bariweiss; billowens; cbs; davidellison; demagogicparty; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; media; paramount; worst

[Libloather]

...worst-run media company in the history of America.

That must mean there's a list.

[FlingWingFlyer]

But those of us here already knew that.

[Fledermaus]

Owens has serious TDS.

That lawsuit was settled because they would have lost in court.

It was cut and dry.

[Bullish]

NBC is by far the worst.

This is just a vicious Trump hater writing another worthless Trump hate book.

[bigbob]

Says a guy who has never run anything

[GOPJ]

This is just a vicious Trump hater writing another worthless Trump hate book.

You're right - and he's probably getting 'help' from DNC War rooms and disgruntled CIA goons - the same people who provide news packets for these sicko lazy talentless network 'journalists'.

[Mariner]

Paramount is perhaps the BEST run media company.

Landman et al.

[neverevergiveup]

This is just a bunch of self-important people who thought their ‘news show’ was a beacon to guide the world. They can’t believe that something as important as what they do could possibly be changed or dismantled. It’s a me me me me me world.

[Kudsman]

Also has all the Traitors series from US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Senators should do a celebrity season.

[vivenne]

Yet, CBS told Catherine Herridge not to print the Hunter Biden laptop story. Guess Bill didn’t mind that kind of interfering.

[Scrambler Bob]

Worst run

He stayed there 37 years?

[Paladin2]

It would seem to be pretty tough competition to cross the finish line last.

So many contenders, toiling in the field for so long.

[T.B. Yoits]

Media company?

These companies are set up to defy campaign finance laws by giving illegal political contributions-in-kind. (With some globalist propaganda thrown in as a bonus).

[frank ballenger]

RE: Blasts Paramount...

Problem with this clip from Network is we have even more millions of people who want to stay at home and get entertained while the socialists take over our country. Hope to not be bothered. Hope to be left alone.

And all the things he listed are still problems in 2026 as in 1976. Inflation, power taken by the elites, all the rest. Later speeches mention the Arabs taking over the US (and “London is already half run by the Arabs”).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOSaVPX2yB8

[Albion Wilde]

No wonder CBSnews has gone so far downhill over the years, with longtime, bitter, entitled snots like Bill Owens and Scott Pelley—both sexist and classist in their snooty disrespect for their new bosses.

[Texas Eagle]

According to Breaker, he alleges in the proposal that Paramount had “set up an internal spy ring that the Vichy government would have admired,” claiming scripts and story plans were routinely shared with senior corporate leadership

Ooooooh. Burn. Please, by all means explain how a Vichy government behaves.

[DoodleBob]

He calls the deal “more like a rape, with Viacom consuming CBS” and leaving behind “a poor, slow child named Paramount” that was “not ready for the world, or Wall Street.”

[FreedomPoster]

>That lawsuit was settled because they would have lost in court.

Also likely that the discovery process would have hung them out to dry for even more damages from others.

[catnipman]

Bill is simply upset that a slightly revamped CBS news is only 85% hard leftist propaganda, instead of 100% under his tenure ...