Posted on 05/02/2025 8:07:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Last week, 60 Minutes’ executive producer Bill Owens resigned in protest — but Owens and the rest of the news program have never taken responsibility for their own corruption.
Last week, Bill Owens, the executive producer of CBS’ flagship news program 60 Minutes, resigned, “citing encroachments on his journalistic independence,” per The New York Times. In the first show since the news of Owens’ resignation broke, 60 Minutes ended the program with a glowing, if dubious, tribute to Owens that has since gone viral online. The program took the unusual step of alleging unethical behavior by CBS’ corporate parent Paramount for Owens’ resignation, though they didn’t present any direct evidence of this. And the facts suggest that Owens isn’t exactly the paragon of integrity he’s being made out to be.
The proximate cause for said encroachments is widely assumed to be politics. According to the Times, “Paramount’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, is eager to secure the Trump administration’s approval for a multibillion-dollar sale of her company to Skydance, a company run by the son of the tech billionaire Larry Ellison.”
Supposedly, Redstone has also expressed a desire to settle Donald Trump’s case against 60 Minutes over allegations they deceptively edited their interview with Kamala Harris last fall. Though the Times is loathe to discuss it, there’s also lots of speculation that Redstone, an observant Jew, was less than thrilled when 60 Minutes recently ran an offensively stupid segment where veteran reporter Leslie Stahl asked a freed Israeli hostage if his Hamas captors starved him unintentionally because Hamas ran out of food. It’s well established that Hamas steals and hoards all the food and aid coming into Gaza, and it beggars belief that anyone,...
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Putzer Prizes are for putzes.
Just sayin’.
“60 Minutes” segment on then-candidate Kamala Harris
— the subject of Trump’s $20B lawsuit against CBS for deceptive editing —
was nominated for an Emmy Award for “outstanding edited interview.”
We are forever grateful that poconopindit posted that Paramount’s annual report
failed to advise investors wrt Trump’s billion dollar suit against CBS’ “60 minutes.”
Contact the SEC at its web site sec.gov.
Message: The Paramount corporation may have a shareholder lawsuit on its hands for not warning stockholders in its annual report of Trump’s significant $20 billion law suit against CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
Falsifying an annual report can lead to severe penalties, including significant fines, imprisonment, and legal action. Companies and individuals involved can face substantial financial remedies, loss of business, and reputational damage.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should pursue civil penalties and fines for companies and individuals involved in fraudulent financial reporting.
The leftist capture of the media may be the single most destructilve element in the collapse of civil society here. No one can trust anything they hear or read any more, not in the news, not in the sciences. Burn in hell, purveyors of masscom lies.
take heart.........
Comcast is losing cable customers at a fantastic rate that ends the cash flow needed to support the losers MANBC and NBC
ABC is the defendant of several megabillion $$ lawsuits rising from the crones at The View who crossed the line
CBS faces the Trump lawsuit for really big $$
Allof the above make for pissed off stock holders seeing their investments decline toward nothingness
Most of the U.S. news media is the best tool the world Marxists could have and they didn’t have to invest a cent into it.
The similarities between Soviet ‘news’ and US/European ‘news’ is SCARY - both lie THROUGH THEIR TEETH in support of the Communists/Democrats/Globalists/Neocons/etc., while claiming to be telling the truth.
But there is ONE BIG DIFFERENCE - in the Soviet Union, no one believed their ‘news’ and simply at laughed at them. For whatever reason, most Americans and virtually ALL Europeans still believe everything they hear in Western Media (you can see some of that even here...scary!).
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