{"id":2199734,"date":"2025-12-15T14:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2199734"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:50:27","slug":"60-minutes-scott-pelley-gives-blunt-verdict-on-new-cbs-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/60-minutes-scott-pelley-gives-blunt-verdict-on-new-cbs-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201960 Minutes\u2019: Scott Pelley Gives Blunt Verdict on New CBS Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0123338\/\">60 Minutes<\/a> host <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1739997\/\">Scott Pelley<\/a> has shared his verdict on the new owners of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0011682\/\">CBS News<\/a> following concerns that the network\u2019s reporting would be influenced by the corporate merger between Skydance and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a>. Speaking at the 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards on Friday (December 12), where he was honored alongside comedian <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0829537\/\">Jon Stewart<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0222128\/\">Ms<\/a> Now\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1882629\/\">Rachel Maddow<\/a>, Pelley admitted there were \u201cconcerns\u201d about what the merger meant for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0798215\/\">60 Minutes<\/a> and whether it would change the types of stories they reported. This came amid a tumultuous relationship between 60 Minutes and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0874339\/\">President Donald Trump<\/a>, who sued the show and parent company Paramount over what he claimed was biased editing of a&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>60 Minutes host Scott Pelley has shared his verdict on the new owners of CBS News following concerns that the network\u2019s reporting would be influenced by the corporate merger between Skydance and Paramount. Speaking at the 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards on Friday (December 12), where he was honored alongside comedian Jon Stewart and Ms Now\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2199735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2199734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60-Minutes-Scott-Pelley-Gives-Blunt-Verdict-on-New-CBS.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199736,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199734\/revisions\/2199736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}