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’60 Minutes’ Goes on Alert: How the News Program Is Grappling With Paramount and Trump
'60 Minutes' has sounded an alert with Sunday's broadcast informing viewers about the departure of executive producer Bill Owens
His appearance teed up one of the most dramatic examples in recent memory of media conglomerates finding themselves at odds with news divisions that are supposed to be independent at a time when they are worried about meddling from the Trump administration. It’s not a surprise that Paramount might want an extra layer of scrutiny on the program, say three people familiar with the matter, and indeed, the show is believed to have tightened its standards review process following the 2013 broadcast of a segment that examined an attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and was found to be lacking in its efforts to substantiate assertions of a key source. In 1995, CBS forced the newsmagazine, then run by founder Don Hewitt, to hold a report alleging that tobacco giant Brown & Williamson had hidden the health risks inherent in its cigarettes.
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