Hours after Scott Pelley made headlines for speaking out against firings and other changes at 60 Minutes, the show’s former executive producer offered words of praise for the correspondent.
Bill Owens told a New York Press Club event that Pelley “can smell fraud a mile away.”
Owens, receiving the New York Press Club’s Gabe Pressman Truth to Power Award, said that Pelley “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.”
In a tense exchange
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