60 Minutes
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I hadn’t been following what has been happening at CBS. What a cluster.
Scott Pelley, one of the most well-known and respected journalists in broadcast journalism, has been fired by CBS News after clashing with network brass over last week’s severe round of cuts at 60 Minutes, the show he has worked on since 2004, the Guardian confirmed.
While changes were long expected at 60 Minutes, CBS News management shocked staffers last week by firing the network’s executive producer, executive editor and two correspondents, Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi, without giving a specific reason for their terminations.
During an extremely heated meeting on Monday morning with the show’s newly appointed executive editor Nick Bilton, along with another CBS News executive, Pelley rebuked Bari Weiss, the longtime opinion commentator who joined the network in October as editor-in-chief.
“She’s murdering 60 Minutes,” Pelley said, as first reported by the Guardian. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/02/scott-pelley-60-minutes-cbs-news
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The exchange between Pelley and Bilton:
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Steve Kroft weighs in:
Former 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft calls the changes under Bari Weiss "disastrous." He adds: "This is journalistic interference. It makes no business sense whatsoever. It's the highest rated news program on television, and it has been that way for more than 50 years. The audience was up about 9% last year. Why would you mess with that?" Our conversation airs tonight on the
@newshour
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Link to video
I rest my case.
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I just found out that I went to college with Bari Weiss's father. Imagine my surprise!
Louis Weiss (Louie to us) was sort of a class clown. He was a fellow political science major and we had the same mentor (John Agresto). The difference is that I passed the comprehensive exam in political science and graduated. Louie took two tries at it and failed both times. He had to come back the following year and fill out a secondary major (drama) and pass the comps in that discipline in order to get his degree.
Crazy economist who likes to write about higher education.
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I just found out that I went to college with Bari Weiss's father. Imagine my surprise!
Louis Weiss (Louie to us) was sort of a class clown. He was a fellow political science major and we had the same mentor (John Agresto). The difference is that I passed the comprehensive exam in political science and graduated. Louie took two tries at it and failed both times. He had to come back the following year and fill out a secondary major (drama) and pass the comps in that discipline in order to get his degree.
@Piano-Dad Small world.
Where he is now.
https://bulletin.kenyon.edu/article/one-of-us-lou-weiss-78/
Notable:
Most influential Kenyon class: Poli sci with John Agresto changed my life. I entered that class as a liberal and left a (bleeding heart) conservative.
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Just saw Gordon Wood's obit in the NYT, which reminded me of another seminar with John Agresto on the American Revolution. Wood's early work was a central pillar of that course. One of the big issues was whether the colonial separation was a radical "Revolution" in thinking or a conservative rebellion to restore and preserve existing liberties. Woods was on the radical side, and his framework was used by Ken Burns in his most recent work on the Revolution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/books/gordon-s-wood-dead.html
And now, back to 60 Minutes!
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