Veteran reporter Marvin Kalb sheds light on battles underway at CBS where Bill Owens, executive producer of 60 Minutes, just quit/was fired, saying, “It’s clear the company is done with me.”

“Bill was under increasing pressure to go puffy on Trump,” Lesley Stahl told Kalb.

Kalb, Murrow professor emeritus at Harvard, said Shari Redstone, the majority owner of Paramount (the parent corporation of CBS News), is negotiating to sell her interest to the son of Larry Ellison, the immensely wealthy owner of Oracle, a multinational computer technology company and friend of Donald Trump.

“Under Ellison, CBS will purr like a Fox,” Kalb said.

Full column was published 4/24/25 by The Contrarian (link...)