{"id":4841,"date":"2026-08-03T21:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2026-08-03T21:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:11:33","slug":"maga-curious-cbs-boss-own-new-hire-issues-dire-warning-for-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4841","title":{"rendered":"MAGA-Curious CBS Boss\u2019 Own New Hire Issues Dire Warning for Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The woman spearheading CBS News\u2019 Trump-friendly overhaul just got a dire warning from one of the people she hired to salvage the network\u2019s flailing flagship program.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4840\">Accused Wife-Beating MAGA Rep Branded as \u2018Predator\u2019 by Voters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bari Weiss, 42, took on the top job after MAGA ally David Ellison, son of Trump megadonor Larry Ellison, took over CBS\u2019 parent company in a controversial merger last October. Her tenure so far has been disastrous, with <i>60 Minutes<\/i> in particular bleeding seasoned staff as a direct result of clashes with Weiss and her management team. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On a single day in May that staffers have since dubbed \u201cBlack Thursday,\u201d she removed executive producer Tanya Simon, executive editor Draggan Mihailovich, senior producer Matthew Polevoy, and correspondent Cecilia Vega, while correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi\u2019s contract lapsed unrenewed the same week. Days later, Weiss\u2019s replacement for Simon, Nick Bilton, fired veteran correspondent Scott Pelley \u201cfor cause\u201d after Pelley told him in front of staff that Weiss was \u201cmurdering\u201d <i>60 Minutes<\/i>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Weiss recruited veteran U.K. broadcaster Sir Trevor Phillips, 72, as part of a hiring blitz to fill the desks she had emptied. Phillips, a former politician and public servant, has sparked controversy for allegedly Islamophobic comments and for defending an associate of Jeffrey Epstein on the basis that nobody is \u201cperfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips sat down with The Telegraph for an interview published on Monday before he starts as senior global affairs correspondent at CBS. When the newspaper asked about the \u201cwalkouts, firings, and bitter infighting\u201d that has so far defined Weiss\u2019 time at the helm, he didn\u2019t mince his words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBari and her team have a huge tanker of a network news organization to turn around, and they are assembling a little team on the bridge,\u201d he said. \u201cThe great thing about her is that she\u2019s one of those people who will either change the world or crash and burn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when they crash and burn, it\u2019s in Technicolor,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips\u2019 words of warning come after a backlash not only to his own hiring but also to that of several others now expected to fill the desks at <i>60 Minutes<\/i>. Chief among those new recruits is devout Catholic commentator Ross Douthat, who as a right-wing New York Times opinion columnist brings little-to-no reporting or on-camera experience with him.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4838\">Trump Plots Revenge After Melting Down at Pool Fiasco Goon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weiss\u2019 executive producer on the program, Nick Bilton<b>\u2014a former NYT tech columnist and filmmaker who had never worked in TV before Weiss handed him one of the most prestigious jobs in the industry\u2014<\/b>has hailed Douthat as \u201cone of the preeminent public intellectuals in America today, a thinker of uncommon rigor, and a journalist of deep empathy.\u201d Industry veterans are unconvinced, with one TV executive telling Status last week that \u201cthe idea that Ross can be a \u201860\u2019 correspondent is a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other additions to the team include ex-VICE correspondent Gianna Toboni and war reporter Sebastian Junger, along with the promotion of CBS\u2019 own Norah O\u2019Donnell to full correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>Industry figures who spoke to Status measured the new staff against former titans of the show like Scott Pelley, Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, and Ed Bradley. One news veteran underscored that \u201cthese are the most coveted on-air jobs in TV news,\u201d with another suggesting the recent hires \u201cnever would have been considered for the actual <i>60 Minutes<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weiss\u2019 implementation of what critics slam as a rightward swing at CBS, along with an aversion to anything critical of the Trump administration, has coincided with a steep slide in ratings. <i>CBS Evening News<\/i>, now anchored by Weiss-hire Tony Dokoupil, has seen its viewership steadily decline over the past four months, with July marking the weakest month for <i>CBS Mornings<\/i>, fronted by network veteran Gayle King, in that show\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>A TV executive who spoke with Status last week attributed the record-low ratings directly to the overhaul under Weiss, warning that \u201cthere is little hope these <i>60 Minutes<\/i> changes will do anything but the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4836\">RFK Jr. Makes Wild Claim About His Eating Habits<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Daily Beast has contacted CBS News for comment on this story. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman spearheading CBS News\u2019 Trump-friendly overhaul just got a dire warning from one of the people she hired to salvage the network\u2019s flailing flagship program. Read more Accused Wife-Beating MAGA Rep Branded as \u2018Predator\u2019 by Voters Bari Weiss, 42, took on the top job after MAGA ally David Ellison, son of Trump megadonor Larry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MAGA-Curious CBS Boss\u2019 Own New Hire Issues Dire Warning for Her - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4841\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MAGA-Curious CBS Boss\u2019 Own New Hire Issues Dire Warning for Her - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The woman spearheading CBS News\u2019 Trump-friendly overhaul just got a dire warning from one of the people she hired to salvage the network\u2019s flailing flagship program. 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