The global non -executive president of Paramount Global, Shari Redstone, warned that the media must present “facts” and “non -opinions” in the tail of the resignation of the accumulation 60 minutes Executive producer Bill Owens.
Speaking to Thewrap, Redstone insisted that the media have an important role in the United States and is not simply to please their “freedom of expression.”
“There is nothing controversial in the count of the truth,” Redstone explained. “There is nothing controversial to get the real history. And I think companies not only have a chance, but a great responsibility, to use the resources they have to tell these stories and obtain audiences of their things and let people love how people stick. Something, but gives them the facts.”
He also said that “press freedom” can be misused by supporters who only tell one side of a story.
“I don’t think there is a time that you have to commit what you say and do, but the freedom of the press implies telling both sides of history, giving the facts, not giving opinions. And I think that is our responsibility.”
Redstone also said that the media seemed to be better in the days of Walter Cronkite.
“The days of Walter Cronkite, where, whatever, people believed in the truth, people really long for the information they need to be independent and make their own judgments. That is what freedom of expression is,” he insisted.
Shari Redstone and Tom Cruise at the premiere of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning part of one” held at the Rose Theater, in Jazz in the Frederick P. Rose Hall of the Lincoln Center on July 10, 2023 in New York, New York. (Lexie Moreland/Variety through Getty Images)
Redstone’s comments occurred only a few hours later 60 minutes Executive producer Bill Owens resigned from the alleging program that he was being interfered with his superiors.
“Around the last months, it has become clean that I would not be allowed to execute the program, since I have always executed it, to make independent decisions based on what was correct for 60 minutesSuitable for the audience. “Owens said when he announced his resignation, according to the New York Post.
“Then, after having defended this show, and what we represent, from all angles, on time with everything I could, I am moving away so that the program can move forward,” Owens concluded.
The Owens vacancy its position arrives when President Donald Trump’s demand against CBS leads to the problematic network.
In November or last year, the president filed a lawsuit against CBS for an “misleading” interview with Kamala Harris that Trump said he was severely edited and was only aimed at defeating his presidential campaign.
Trump’s demand alleges that CBS was acting a complement to the Harris campaign and the presentation referred to “partisan and illegal acts of choice and interference of voters through a distortion of malicious, misleading and substantial news calculated to confuse, deceive and deceive the public.”
In February, a federal judge denied a motion filed by CBS to dismiss the demand against its 60 minutes Program while the Trump team increased its commitment to demand $ 20 billion in damages, above its initial $ 10 billion.
In the midst of all these consequences, there are contradictory stories about Redstone’s internal reactions to Trump’s demand. Some reports say that Redstone has a great leg scrutiny 60 minutes To ensure that the program stops to consent to its leftist partisanship and wanted Wens to be eliminated from its position. But other reports, such as the wrapping, insist that Redstone has no role and the tasks have no actions against 60 minutes.
Owens is not very successful in CBS, he thought. His efforts to renew the CBS Evening News He has crashed and burned and accused of being a nozzle of the Democratic Party.
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