After yet another CBS News figure resigned in apparent protest, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) repeated his calls for Paramount Global’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, not to settle with President Donald Trump over his “bogus” lawsuit concerning a “60 Minutes” segment.
CBS News President Wendy McMahon announced Monday she was leaving her post, saying she could not agree with Paramount, the network’s parent company, on how to proceed.
“Bill Owens, the producer of CBS’s 60 Minutes, resigned in protest,” Sanders wrote on social media, referencing Owens’ April exit. “Wendy McMahon, the head of CBS News, has now resigned. I say to Shari Redstone: Enough is enough. Do not capitulate to Trump’s attack on a free press. Do not settle Trump’s bogus lawsuit against 60 Minutes.”