{"id":2326468,"date":"2026-03-13T13:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2326468"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:55:31","slug":"60-minutes-scott-pelley-takes-swipe-at-cbs-bosses-for-sucking-up-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/60-minutes-scott-pelley-takes-swipe-at-cbs-bosses-for-sucking-up-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201960 Minutes\u2019 Scott Pelley Takes Swipe at CBS Bosses for Sucking Up to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Veteran journalist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1739997\/\">Scott Pelley<\/a> took a shot at ex-network bosses on Thursday (March 12) while presenting an award to former 60 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6760518\/\">Minutes<\/a> executive producer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1243879\/\">Bill Owens<\/a>. Pelley appeared at the National Press Foundation\u2019s annual awards ceremony to introduce <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2123560\/\">Owens<\/a>, who was honored with the 2025 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0103120\/\">Benjamin C. Bradlee<\/a> Editor of the Year Award. After 26 years at the helm of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0798215\/\">60 Minutes<\/a>, Owens resigned in April 2025 amid significant network changes. According to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0406816\/\">The Guardian<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10052066\/\">Jeremy Barr<\/a>, Pelley referenced the circumstances surrounding Owens\u2019 exit during his introduction, saying, \u201cOur previous owners at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0070627\/\">CBS<\/a> faced political pressure and crumbled.\u201d This seemed to be a reference to CBS\u2019 former owners settling a lawsuit with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0874339\/\">President Donald Trump<\/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>Veteran journalist Scott Pelley took a shot at ex-network bosses on Thursday (March 12) while presenting an award to former 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens. Pelley appeared at the National Press Foundation\u2019s annual awards ceremony to introduce Owens, who was honored with the 2025 Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award. After 26 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2326469,"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-2326468","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\/2026\/03\/60-Minutes-Scott-Pelley-Takes-Swipe-at-CBS-Bosses-for.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326468","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=2326468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326470,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326468\/revisions\/2326470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}