60 Minutes has been on the air nearly 60 years. Right now, the anchor of CBS' Sunday lineup is looking like it may be headed for the endangered species list.
Reporter Scott Pelley, a former CBS Evening News anchor, was fired earlier this week for standing up to the network's right-wing-aligned head of the news department, Bari Weiss, and her new head man at 60 Minutes, Nick Bilton. Weiss, then, lied about the firing in a statement released to the press.
With CBS' corporate parent, Paramount-Skydance, still looking to close a deal on a merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, the network has gutted its news department in an effort to placate president Donald Trump, the most thin-skinned, hypersensitive man in modern history. Even with Trump-friendly management, President Pampers is still rage-watching, looking for excuses to whine & complain about the longest running primetime news program the network has ever had. Former anchor Dan Rather has railed against his former bosses. Founding co-anchors Mike Wallace & Morley Safer are turning over in their graves.
The merger would give Skydance owners Larry & David Ellison control of CNN, as well, another outlet that fuels Trump's rage. Trump doesn't understand that not all criticism is negative. He watches TV so he can have something to complain about and rile up his base of marks.
If the merger isn't finalized by, say, November, and the midterm elections go in favor of the Democrats, as has been forecast for months, it probably won't be final at all.
For Scott Pelley, I'd not be surprised if someone suggests the prospect of a wrongful termination suit. That would have more merit behind it than any frivolous attempt at litigation from Trump and his crew.
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