WGA Slams Scott Pelley’s Firing and CBS News’ ‘Cruel and Needless Layoffs’: ‘A Profound Contempt for the Journalism Profession’

The head of the Writers Guild of America East union blasted Paramount-owned CBS News for recent “cruel and needless layoffs,” its firing of “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley and the shutdown of CBS News Radio. In a message to members Thursday morning, WGA East president Tom Fontana decried the “assaults on CBS News, an institution […]

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