1st Amendment Applies To All, Including 'Liberal Media'

When Bill Owens, longtime producer of the popular news show 60 Minutes, resigned in April it was natural that correspondent Scott Pelley would pay tribute to him. What was unexpected was that Pelley not only discussed why Owens was leaving—he openly sided with Owens against CBS’s management—but also explained that Owens left because Paramount (which owns CBS) “had began to supervise our content in new ways” and as as result Owens “felt he had lost the independence that honest journalism requires.”