Longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley laced into his boss, CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss at a closed door staff meeting with the show’s new executive producer Nick Bilton. He said Weiss was “murdering” 60 Minutes and that Bilton had “slender qualifications for this job.”
04 Jun 2026 | 08:05
Many years ago, I worked for CBS—well, its local affiliate in Los Angeles. Even for an entity far from New York’s broadcasting empire, the CBS name and reputation were beyond reproach. Which is why anyone who worked there, I believe, is so heartbroken to see how it has seemingly become the megaphone...
