NY Post editorial board says CBS needs to ‘clear out the partisan rot’ by booting top producer

The New York Post’s editorial board declared that CBS News could commencement to hole it’s "lefty-propaganda problem" by cutting ties with "60 Minutes" enforcement shaper Bill Owens. 

Earlier this week, Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr knocked CBS News' behaviour pursuing the merchandise of the network's unedited transcript of its "60 Minutes" interrogation with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. 

It showed that CBS News had aired lone the archetypal fractional of her effect to "60 Minutes" analogous Bill Whitaker's question astir Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not "listening" to the Biden medication successful a preview clip that aired connected "Face the Nation," but aired lone the 2nd fractional of her effect during the primetime special. 

In October, President Trump filed a $10 cardinal suit against CBS News alleging predetermination interference implicit its handling of the "60 Minutes" interview, accusing the web of aiding his Democratic rival done deceptive editing conscionable days earlier the election. 

FCC RELEASES CBS NEWS' RAW ‘60 MINUTES’ TRANSCRIPT FROM KAMALA HARRIS INTERVIEW

"60 Minutes" enforcement shaper Bill Owens. 

The New York Post’s editorial committee believes changes request to hap astatine CBS News arsenic a result. 

"Like each excessively galore legacy media operations, it needs to wide retired the partisan rot. It tin start by booting ‘60 Minutes’ caput shaper Bill Owens, who has made each excessively galore atrocious calls," the Post’s editorial committee wrote. 

"Most obviously, to slice-and-dice the Harris interview, cutting down 1 word-salad reply aft different into seemingly coherent responses," the editorial committee continued. "Owens told his unit that the interrogation editing was ‘perfectly fine’ and that ‘the institution knows I volition not apologize for thing we person done.’"

The Post editorial committee said "hiding the existent (incoherent!) quality of a favored statesmanlike candidate" is "deception," not journalism. 

"And viewers apt ne'er would’ve ne'er known astir the deception if CBS hadn’t released her afloat effect to 1 question successful a promo," the committee added. 

‘60 MINUTES’ TRANSCRIPT AT CENTER OF TRUMP'S LAWSUIT AGAINST CBS IS VITAL TO INVESTIGATION, FCC CHAIR SAYS

President Trump and others were not pleased with CBS News’ "60 Minutes" implicit the arguable edit of its interrogation with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. (Left: (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images), Center: Screenshot/60Minutes, Right: (Photo by Andy Manis/Getty Images))

The Post’s editorial committee feels whether the footage is "legit grounds for President Trump’s suit implicit the deceptive editing is different matter," but it is surely a headache for CBS’ genitor institution arsenic it seeks a merger with Skydance Media. 

"Owens besides oversaw a severely biased ‘60 Minutes’ study connected the Gaza warfare that not lone precocious the prevarication that Israel was blocking aid, but withheld the extremist affiliations of the advocates it showed claiming Washington was ‘complicit,’ successful helping the Jewish authorities (supposedly) interruption planetary law," the editorial committee wrote. 

Earlier this year, the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the planetary advocacy enactment for the Jewish people, slammed "60 Minutes" for a segment, "Dissent wrong the State Department implicit U.S. Role successful Israel-Hamas War." 

The radical said "60 Minutes" played "directly into the hands of the enemies of the West who purpose to amusement that enactment for Israel is not successful the United States’ champion interest."

"This segment, the latest illustration of large quality outlets recklessly reporting connected Israel's antiaircraft warfare against Hamas, was shockingly one-sided, lacked factual accuracy, and relied heavy connected misguided information," the AJC wrote.

"Perhaps astir egregiously, the conception made astir nary notation of Hamas’ actions that started this war, placing Palestinian civilians successful Gaza successful harm’s mode for years by embedding weapons and different violent infrastructure successful civilian areas," the Jewish advocacy radical added. 

"The conception lone concisely referred to Hamas’ massacre connected October 7, 2023, described their fighters arsenic "militants" alternatively than terrorists, and adjacent went truthful acold arsenic to elevate the outlandish conception that, pursuing Hamas’ October 7 attack, Israel should person sought to marque bid with Hamas terrorists alternatively than enactment successful self-defense."

FCC CHAIR CALLS CBS NEWS' CONDUCT 'HARD TO EXPLAIN' FOLLOWING RELEASE OF KAMALA HARRIS INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT

Bill Whitaker’s "60 Minutes" interrogation with Vice President Kamala Harris is astatine the halfway of a high-stakes lawsuit.  (Screenshots/CBS News)

Between the Harris interrogation and the Israel-Hamas segment, The New York Post has seen enough.

"Axing Bill Owens won’t magically reconstruct CBS News’ reputation; Americans’ spot successful mainstream media is astatine an all-time debased for a lot of reasons. But ousting the shameless partisans from powerfulness is simply a indispensable start," the editorial committee wrote. 

CBS News did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. 

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Fox News Digital’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.