STRIKE A POSE, THERE’S NOTHING TO IT: 60 Minutes Host Scott Pelley Calls Out Paramount In ‘Shocking’ On-Air Attack On CBS’ Parent Company.
“Bill [Owens] resigned Tuesday — it was hard on him and hard on us,” Pelley said in his closing remarks on the show he has worked on for more than 20 years.
“But he did it for us — and you,” he told viewers — then unexpectedly suggested that Owens’ exit could end the era of coverage being “accurate and fair.”
“Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger,” he said, noting that it needs approval from the Trump administration.
“Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways,” he said.
Pelley said that while “none of our stories have been blocked,” Owens “felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires.”
Please let me know when CBS’ era of “independent journalism” begins; for the last 60 years, its “reporting” has moved entirely in lockstep with the DNC.
‘When you work for wages, you ride for the brand. Don’t like what you’re doing, quit. Scott Pelley bit the hand that feeds him and should be frog marched from the studio,’ one person said.
‘This show has been nothing but fraudulent the past eight plus years. This editorial by Scott Pelley jumps the shark,’ said another.
‘Find someone who loves you the way Scott Pelley loves himself,’ a third person said.
‘If Pelley believed a word of this then he should resign. He won’t though because it’s all nonsense. He knows it and we know it,’ added a fourth.
Others called out Pelley for failing to address the other recent scandals 60 Minutes and CBS have been involved in.
You’re gonna need a much bigger blog: CBS’s Scott Pelley Loses a Fight Rigged in his Favor.