{"id":1163,"date":"2026-06-02T04:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2026-06-02T04:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:37:13","slug":"bill-owens-ex-60-minutes-boss-scorns-cbs-news-overhaul-of-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1163","title":{"rendered":"Bill Owens, Ex-\u201960 Minutes\u2019 Boss, Scorns CBS News Overhaul of Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThe former executive producer of \u201c60 Minutes\u201d took a moment Monday night to issue a warning about what\u2019s happening to the long-running newsmagazine under its latest executive producer \u2014 and the people who currently run CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1161\">Jon Stewart Slams Donald Trump\u2019s Crumbling Freedom 250 Concert: \u2018Is Anyone Still Performing?\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cCBS News and \u201960 Minutes\u2019 are institutions, not places where partisans and ideologues should be employed,\u201d said Bill Owens, who ended his time as the head of \u201c60 Minutes\u201d after seeing new efforts by CBS News parent Paramount to interfere with the show. Owens made his remarks at an awards ceremony held by the New York Press Club, and in the wake of efforts by Bari Weiss, CBS News\u2019 Editor in Chief, to overhaul the program and install Nick Bilton, a former technology writer and documentarian, as the show\u2019s newest leader.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTo do so, Weiss and her team ousted Owens\u2019 successor, Tanya Simon, as well as the show\u2019s executive editor,\u00a0Draggan Mihailovich<em>,<\/em> along with correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega. \u201cThe senior leadership at \u201960 Minutes\u2019 were all fired at once,\u201d said Owens, accepting the Gabe Pressman Truth to Power Award. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t any cause given.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe decision to remake the show may not be one easily executed. On Tuesday, \u201c60 Minutes\u201d correspondent Scott Pelley lambasted Bilton and Weiss during a meeting of the newsmagazine\u2019s staff. Pelley derided any qualifications either Weiss or Bilton had to manage the show, and demanded an explanation for why his colleagues were fired. And he accused Weiss of \u201cmurdering\u201d the program.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThey were fired by people who don\u2019t even know what we do, who don\u2019t actually care,\u201d Owens said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOwens said his former colleague was simply standing up for what was right, and might even have been channeling past \u201c60 Minutes\u201d correspondents like Ed Bradley, Mike Wallace and Morley Safer. \u201cScott can smell a fraud from a mile away,\u201d Owens explained, noting that Pelley feels \u201cit is outrageous what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1159\">The Monroe Doctrine: How Marilyn Set the Standard for Incandescent Stardom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tWeiss is a former opinion writer from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal who left the former place after describing a place that was too sensitive to critiques made to it via social media. \u201cStories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions,\u201d she wrote at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSince her exit, Weiss has founded and led The Free Press, an opinion publication that expresses \u201canti-woke\u201d sentiment and has been tagged as being more conservative in sentiment. It has proven popular with business executives. She was installed last year as the head of editorial operations at CBS News by Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, who bought The Free Press for $150 million.<\/p>\n<p>\nWeiss has also expressed strong pro-Israel views, and Owens alleged Monday night that her support of Israel had resulted in the exit of several CBS News staffers who felt they were not being allowed to cover all sides of stories tied to conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhen Ellison\u2019s Paramount took over operations, Owens said, \u201cmy colleagues at \u201960 Minutes\u2019 were told to their faces they would be able to cover the news as they always had. 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