The Daily Beast
Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images The former executive producer of 60 Minutes eviscerated CBS News’ Trump-friendly boss Bari Weiss after she was accused of trying to kill off the network’s flagship show. Bill Owens, who quit 60 Minutes last April because of the threat to its editorial independence, addressed the explosive remarks from correspondent Scott Pelley earlier in the day in which he told Nick Bilton, the magazine show’s new executive producer, that Weiss was “murdering” 60 Minutes. While accepting the Gabe Pressman Truth to Power Award at the New York Press Club’s annual dinner on Monday, Owens praised Pelley as someone who “can smell a fraud from a mile away” while launching other scathing attacks on Weiss and Bilton. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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