Head of CBS News Is Forced Out Amid Tensions With Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/business/media/cbs-60-minutes-trump-
wendy-mcmahon.html

The president of CBS News, Wendy McMahon, was forced out of her post on 
Monday, the latest shock wave to hit the news division amid an ongoing 
showdown involving President Trump, “60 Minutes” and CBS’s parent company, 
Paramount.

Ms. McMahon told her staff in a memo that “it’s become clear the company 
and I do not agree on the path forward.” Executives at Paramount informed 
Ms. McMahon on Saturday that they wanted her to step down, according to 
several people with direct knowledge who requested anonymity to share 
private discussions.

Paramount is in talks to settle a $20 billion lawsuit brought by Mr. Trump 
that accused “60 Minutes” of deceptively editing an interview with his 
Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris. Many legal experts have called the 
suit baseless, but Paramount’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, 
has said she favors settling the case. She is seeking federal approval for 
a multibillion-dollar sale of her company to a Hollywood studio, Skydance.

The situation prompted the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” Bill Owens, 
to resign last month. He has told confidants that Paramount executives, 
cognizant of the settlement talks with Mr. Trump, had pressured him over 
the program’s coverage of the Trump administration.

A new flashpoint between “60 Minutes” and its corporate bosses flared last 
week.

For its May 18 season finale, “60 Minutes” had planned to air a segment, 
reported by Anderson Cooper, about the Trump administration’s order for 
mass firings at the Internal Revenue Service.

George Cheeks, the chief executive of CBS and a co-chief executive of 
Paramount, considered an idea to broadcast an unrelated prime-time special 
on Sunday that would air instead of the network’s evening lineup, 
including the “60 Minutes” season finale, according to four people briefed 
on private deliberations.


-- 
November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look 
forward to America being great again.

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that 
stupid people won't be offended.

Every day is an IQ test. Some pass, some, not so much.

Thank you for cleaning up the disasters of the 2008-2017, 2020-2024 Obama 
/ Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the 
The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood 
queer liberal democrat donors.