Minutes’ top journalist Scott Pelley condemned CBS parent company Paramount in an on-air rebuke of the network. Pelley directly criticized the network in the first episode since the program’s executive producer,

In a rare on-air rebuke April 27, longtime correspondent for the CBS newsmagazine Scott Pelley said the broadcaster's parent company Paramount had become heavy-handed in its oversight. His comments came in response to executive producer Bill Owens' resignation from the show last week.