Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker exit '60 Minutes'
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The three remaining fill-time correspondents on 60 Minutes — Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim — said on Friday that they will remain with the show. “We don’t want to see 60 Minutes die,” they wrote in a joint memo on Friday.
Former “60 Minutes” chief Bill Owens blasted CBS News, saying it’s run by people who “don’t even know what we do and don’t actually care,” and heaped praise on correspondent Scott Pelley for challenging his bosses in a headline-grabbing meeting.