60 minutes, the most successful broadcast television program, good, hard hitting journalism, huge audience is being torn apart, or in the words of correspondent Scott Pelley, it’s being murdered. Pelley was fired, as were two other top correspondents, ⁓ Sharon Alphonse and Cecilia Veger, and a number of executives, and Henderson Cooper just left.
Barry Wise, the relatively new and over her head president of CBS News, is driven by ideology against what she sees as woke Democrats and unwavering support for Israel, and a desire to please her bosses, the Ellisons, big pals of Donald Trump. Everything she has touched has failed. The CBS Evening News is in the tank since she reshaped it.
She allowed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to choose which correspondent was to interview him. Now she has her sights on sixty minutes. She chose some guy named Nick Bolton with no television experience to take over Sixty Minutes. He explained the reason, after a contentious meeting, the reason that Pelle, a CBS veteran, who has covered wars, the White House, anchored the evening news, where his audience rose in contrast to the Weiss area.
And for years done great work on sixty minutes. He was fired because he was disrespectful to Bolton. Ms. Bolton, in journalism, I I just want to tell you, respect is something you earn. And that’s that’s something that neither you nor Miss Wise deserve. It’s just so tragic what’s happened to a great television news program.