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The most-watched news program on CBS is expected to undergo “massive changes” once its season ends on Sunday, a new report alleges. , which is already set to lose two of its top correspondents in Sharyn Alfonsi and Anderson Cooper.
“People are afraid, and they’re waiting for something monumental to happen here,” the longtime network insider told the paper. That insider added that viewers can expect massive changes to 60 Minutes for the program’s 59th season, with whispers of a newsroom shake-up that could include layoffs and opening the show to other journalists from across CBS, like Evening News host Tony Dokoupil.
Bari Weiss, who had no experience in TV news before being tapped to lead CBS, has been a controversial figure at the network. Weiss, a conservative blogger with no prior TV experience before her CBS gig, was named editor-in-chief of CBS News in October after the MAGA billionaire David Ellison acquired her Free Press website. Since taking over, Weiss has axed dozens of journalists and rankled her staff with editorial decisions widely viewed as benefiting the Trump administration.
That includes her pressing pause on an already-marketed 60 Minutes segment about the administration sending migrants to an El Salvador mega prison without due process. , which has aired since 1968, “just like she has done with everything else at CBS News. ”reported in February that one of Cooper’s segments for the show—exploring President Donald Trump’s decision to accept refugees from South Africa—was “subjected to an intense level of editorial scrutiny” that was described as being “abnormal.
” The dispute dates back to Alfonsi’s segment on a notorious El Salvador mega-prison detaining deportees from the United States, which Weiss reportedly pulled on the grounds that it did not adequately include the administration’s point of view.
“If they don’t renew her, it is in direct retaliation for having the temerity to tell the truth,” Rome Hartman, a longtime, 84, who was reportedly unhappy with Weiss’s decision to “upstage” a planned interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by ultimately assigning it to CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett instead. “I just know that if I were there now, I would have a hard time knowing where the dial is, where the wind is blowing, what stories can you even suggest at the risk of alienating the powers that be,” a former
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