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Former '60 Minutes' producer promises to 'blow the lid off' his old network
CBS Didn’t Get Broken by Opinionated Prompts. It Got Broken by Cowardice.Power, Not PersonalityBill Owens, the longtime 60 Minutes executive producer who quit last April, is now promising a memoir that will drag CBS’s internal machinery into public view. His target is Bari Weiss, the newly installed CBS News editor-in-chief under Paramount Skydance owner David Ellison. That is the surface drama. The deeper story is simpler: CBS is being run by owners and executives who claim to care about journalism while repeatedly proving they care more about control, image, and legal exposure.Weiss may be…
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