'60 Minutes' Calls Out Paramount for Supervising Content 'In New Ways', Explains Bill Owens Exit

"60 Minutes' spent the last few minutes of its CBS broadcast Saturday explaining the hasty exit of longtime executive producer Bill Owens, with correspondent Scott Pelley saying that parent company Paramount "began to supervise our content in new ways." "None of our stories has been blocked, but Bill felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires," Pelley said, adding that "no one here is happy about it, , but in resigning, Bill proved one thing: he was the right person to lead '60 Minutes' all along." The explanation was the topic of "60 Minutes'" . . .