Former “CBS Night Information” anchor Connie Chung stated the upcoming sale of Paramount and “60 Minutes” skirmish with Donald Trump signify “the top of CBS Information” as she knew it, blaming Shari Redstone and the Ellisons for the demise of “unbiased, fact-based journalism.”
“CBS was at all times a standalone community,” Chung stated in a CNN interview with Brianna Keilar on Saturday. “The information division was autonomous. It was at all times unencumbered by pressures from politicians – together with presidents – and unencumbered by bean-counters. However now I can see that the times (of) sincere, unbiased, fact-based journalism is being tainted.
Chung positioned the blame squarely on Redstone, chair of Paramount World, and “Larry Ellison, and his son David,” who “appear to solely know greed, avarice. I fear concerning the CBS I used to know.”
Chung rose to nationwide prominence within the Seventies and Eighties, changing into one of many first Asian American girls to anchor a significant U.S. community newscast. At totally different factors she labored for all the “Massive Three” networks — CBS, NBC, and ABC — and later at CNN.
“Ellison’s legal professionals advised CBS that they’d wipe away range,” Chung stated. “I might by no means have had a wonderful profession … had it not been for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, through which girls and minorities have been lastly seen as equal.”
Watch the whole interview within the video clip above.
