{"id":517,"date":"2026-06-02T05:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:44:08","slug":"cbs-legends-blast-60-minutes-over-maga-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"CBS Legends Blast \u201860 Minutes\u2019 Over MAGA Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>CBS legends have delivered a scathing rebuke of the network\u2019s leadership after editor-in-chief Bari Weiss purged <i>60 Minutes <\/i>staff amid her continuing MAGA makeover. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=515\">Fresh-From-Prison 2020 Election Nut Is Back to Her Old Tricks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 100 CBS veterans and other signatories sent an open letter on Monday to Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, the Trump-friendly billionaire who took over CBS last year, blasting \u201cthe wholesale dismissal of editorial management\u201d at <i>60 Minutes<\/i>. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Among the signatories were legendary former <i>CBS Evening News<\/i> anchor and <i>60 Minutes <\/i>correspondent Dan Rather, Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>60 Minutes <\/i>producer Lowell Bergman, Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney, and eight-time Oscar nominee, along with dozens of former CBS staffers, according to a copy of the letter posted by The New York Times\u2019 Ben Mullin. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>CBS did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, the undersigned, urge you and your management team at CBS News to uphold the principle of editorial independence that has made <i>60 Minutes<\/i>\u2014in the words of the show\u2019s new executive producer\u2014\u2018the most important television journalism brand this country has ever produced,\u2019\u201d they wrote, quoting from the lengthy memo new <i>60 Minutes <\/i>executive producer Nick Bilton, 49, sent to staff last week after being hired by Weiss, 42. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstitutional trust is not transferred through ownership,\u201d they reminded Ellison, whose control of the network has been marked by staff revolts and slipping viewership since he installed Weiss, an anti-woke opinion columnist with no TV experience. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cModernizing the show for new audiences and new delivery approaches is important\u2014but not at the cost of editorial integrity,\u201d the letter stated, in what appeared to be a reference to Bilton\u2019s declaration that he was brought in to revamp <i>60 Minutes<\/i> for a changing media landscape. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wholesale dismissal of editorial management, without a public pledge to maintain the values, standards, and traditions of this program, puts the legacy of <i>60 Minutes<\/i> in jeopardy,\u201d the signatories declared. <\/p>\n<p>They urged Ellison, 43, to \u201csend a clear message\u201d that \u201cyou respect and value editorial independence and press freedom,\u201d arguing that the \u201cfuture of free and independent press in America\u201d is at stake.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was released on the same day <i>60 Minutes<\/i> correspondent Scott Pelley confronted Bilton, who has no TV experience, during a reportedly explosive staff meeting, saying Weiss\u2014who was not even in attendance\u2014is \u201cmurdering\u201d the storied news program. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=513\">Trump Launches Insane Posting Spree After Blowing Up Peace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was brought in to kill it, and she\u2019s been doing exactly that,\u201d Pelley, 68, told Bilton, 49, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Just 15 minutes into the meeting, during which Pelley told Bilton that he had \u201cslender qualifications for this job\u201d and that he \u201cwill never be welcome here,\u201d the new boss left the room.<\/p>\n<p>The clash came after a bloodbath at <i>60 Minutes<\/i> last week, when Weiss fired correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, along with executive producer Tanya Simon, who spent nearly 30 years with the show, in what Pelley dubbed \u201cBlack Thursday.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Emmy-winning journalist Steve Kroft, 80, already slammed Weiss\u2019s purge on Thursday, saying that President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cfingerprints and DNA are all over this.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince I retired, I often wondered what would happen to <i>60 Minutes<\/i>, but I never expected it would be executed by the president of the United States,\u201d Kroft, who was a correspondent for the show from the late 1980s until 2019, told Status. <\/p>\n<p>Rather, 94, has also been fiercely critical of his former network, telling Variety last July that he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d but \u201cnot surprised\u201d after Paramount paid $16 million to settle Trump\u2019s lawsuit over a <i>60 Minutes <\/i>interview with Kamala Harris. The settlement came as Ellison was negotiating an $8 billion acquisition of Paramount, which needed approval from the Trump-controlled Federal Communications Commission. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cBig billionaire business people make decisions about money,\u201d Rather said at the time. \u201cWe could always hope that they will make an exception when it comes to freedom of the press, but it wasn\u2019t to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=511\">Trump Goes After Another Target Amid His War Implosion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS legends have delivered a scathing rebuke of the network\u2019s leadership after editor-in-chief Bari Weiss purged 60 Minutes staff amid her continuing MAGA makeover. Read more Fresh-From-Prison 2020 Election Nut Is Back to Her Old Tricks More than 100 CBS veterans and other signatories sent an open letter on Monday to Paramount Skydance CEO David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CBS Legends Blast \u201860 Minutes\u2019 Over MAGA Makeover - 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=517\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CBS Legends Blast \u201860 Minutes\u2019 Over MAGA Makeover - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CBS legends have delivered a scathing rebuke of the network\u2019s leadership after editor-in-chief Bari Weiss purged 60 Minutes staff amid her continuing MAGA makeover. 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