CBS Corp. has terminated “60 Minutes” producer Jeff Fager’s contract following a bombshell New Yorker article that accused the “60 Minutes” executive producer of sexual harassment. Fager denied the allegations to The New Yorker in an article that was published online in July. Fager and CBS both claim that the departure is not “directly related” to the allegations against him, which are being independently investigated. CBS released an internal memo claiming Fager “violated company policy.”“The company’s decision had nothing to do with the false allegations printed in the New Yorker,” Fager said Wednesday in a statement obtained by CNN. My language was harsh and, despite the fact that journalists receive harsh demands for fairness all the time, CBS did not like it.”

Source: Huffington Post September 12, 2018 18:09 UTC