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Staffers for CBS News are reportedly getting agitated about all of the hoopla surrounding the “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris from last October, which is now at the center of a very heated legal controversy. The network’s employees are having “mixed emotions” after the program’s executive producer, Bill Owens, told some of his colleagues at Monday’s meeting that the edit of the interview was “perfectly fine.”
“‘Is the edit fine?’ one CBS News insider is said to have commented in an obvious rhetorical question. “It’s obviously an unforced error. Several sources said the discrepancy was preventable, and argued that Owens and ‘60 Minutes’ should have taken greater care to ensure consistency between the two interview clips, especially given the high stakes of the presidential election and the scrutiny at the time on Harris’s performance in interviews.”
More than a few of the employees of CBS News are blaming Owens for “leaving them vulnerable to this situation in the first place,” which he did by doing the edit in the first place. Staffers who attended the meeting held on Monday considered putting out a statement of their own or possibly quitting their jobs, which correspondents Anderson Cooper and Scott Pelley both pushed back on.
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