In his remarks on Sunday night, '60 Minutes' correspondent Scott Pelley presented former executive producer Bill Owens’s decision to resign as an effort to protect the show from further interference.

The show’s top producer abruptly said last week he was quitting. “Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways,” the correspondent Scott Pelley told viewers.

The AP calls it "an unusual peek behind the scenes at the sort of inner turmoil that viewers seldom get the opportunity to see:" At the end of Sunday's episode of 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley paid tribute to Bill Owens,