{"id":945,"date":"2026-06-08T04:11:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2026-06-08T04:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:11:52","slug":"lesley-stahl-reveals-the-moment-cbs-broke-60-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Lesley Stahl Reveals the Moment CBS Broke \u201860 Minutes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Veteran <i>60 Minutes <\/i>correspondent Lesley Stahl has revealed the jarring way CBS leadership fired half a dozen journalists and producers from the legendary news program. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=943\">Trump, 79, Sparks Fresh Health Concerns With Interview Outburst<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was by far the worst experience I\u2019ve been involved in, or even witnessed,\u201d Stahl, 84, told Puck\u2019s William D. Cohan in a new interview.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI mean, firing seven people, including the entire management team over here, plus reporters and producers\u2026\u201d she continued, her voice trailing off. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In her conversation with Cohan, Stahl shed new light on \u201cBlack Thursday,\u201d when CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss simultaneously fired correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, executive producer Tanya Simon, Simon\u2019s deputy Draggan Mihailovich, as well as segment producers Guy Campanile and Matthew Polevoy.<\/p>\n<p>Stahl said she was preparing to board a flight to Madrid to work on a segment with Campanile when news of the firings came down. <\/p>\n<p>Campanile, who was on his way to JFK when he learned he was being let go, was nonetheless given the option by CBS bosses to take the trip and produce the story. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh god, this was awful,\u201d Stahl said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey fired everybody who was around Tanya. We don\u2019t know why. He doesn\u2019t know why. He has no idea why he was fired. None,\u201d Stahl said, explaining her thinking at the time. \u201cAnd I have no idea why he was fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The purge also caught other <i>60 Minutes<\/i> journalists off guard, even if staff knew a broader shake-up had been \u201cin the works for a while,\u201d Stahl noted.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that Simon, a 30-year veteran of the program, had gone into her meeting with Weiss expecting to discuss plans for the show\u2019s upcoming fall season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, she was fired in the three-minute meeting,\u201d Stahl said, \u201cand was told that she and Draggan had to clear out of their offices by five o\u2019clock that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stahl was in Spain when Scott Pelley, 68, confronted Simon\u2019s replacement, Nick Bilton, in an explosive all-hands meeting at the New York office on Monday, pressing him on the firings and telling him that he would \u201cnever be welcome\u201d at <i>60 Minutes<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=941\">Suspect Uses Driverless Car to Flee Robbery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stahl said Pelley had been particularly angered by CBS leadership\u2019s refusal to explain the reasons behind the firings. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what he was agitated about,\u201d she told Cohan. \u201c\u2018Tell us why they were fired.\u2019 That was his question. He never got an answer. They felt he was insubordinate for asking that question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bilton, a tech journalist with no TV experience, fired Pelley the day after their confrontation. <\/p>\n<p>CBS did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Stahl and fellow correspondents Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim announced in a memo to staff that they would remain on the program while blasting the CBS bosses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still deeply upset by the firings of Tanya and Draggan, strong leaders who everyone respected,\u201d they wrote. \u201cAs far as we can tell\u2014because no explanation has ever been offered\u2014they were expelled because they fought for our <i>60 Minutes <\/i>values and stood up to protect our independence and integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three correspondents\u2014the only ones remaining after the show began the year with seven\u2014blasted CBS management for treating the fired staff \u201cso shabbily, with such indecency.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>They said that their decision to stay with the program should not be \u201cconstrued as an endorsement of the existing power structure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They wrote, \u201cHere\u2019s why we are staying: We don\u2019t want to see <i>60 Minutes<\/i> die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been grieving because this whole mess has wounded and damaged the broadcast. We want to stay and fight, try to repair and preserve our reputation,\u201d they wrote. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The trio\u2019s decision came after Bilton, 49, tried to allay widespread concerns about the news program\u2019s journalistic independence under him and Weiss, an anti-woke opinion journalist installed by Paramount Skydance CEO and Trump-friendly billionaire David Ellison, in an email to staff.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=939\">Knicks Fans Blast Trump After MSG Watch Party Is Canceled<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl has revealed the jarring way CBS leadership fired half a dozen journalists and producers from the legendary news program. 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