Former 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens is standing by Scott Pelley following remarks the reporter made about CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss during a heated staff meeting on Monday (June 1).
“Scott Pelley can smell a fraud a mile away,” Owens said while receiving the New York Press Club’s Gabe Pressman Truth to Power Award on Monday night, per Deadline. “He stood up the way that I did a year ago, and I couldn’t be prouder of him, and I know all the people at 60 Minutes couldn’t be prouder of him.”
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