Bari Weiss

Ex-’60 Minutes’ Staffers Attack Bari Weiss After Scott Pelley Fired

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Staffers have taken to calling it “Black Thursday.”  On May 28, a half-dozen senior producers and correspondents at “60 Minutes,” the longest-running and highest-rated news program in the country, were unceremoniously shown the door. Correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, as well as executive producer Tanya Simon and executive editor Draggan Mihailovich, were among them. The firings were carried … Read more

60 Minutes: What Happened With Scott Pelley and Bari Weiss?

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The last several weeks have been like few others in American broadcast journalism. At 60 Minutes, the most popular TV news show of the era, Taylor Sheridan-level drama has set in. Nine or ten million weekly viewers on the linear network alone, yet executive producer Tanya Simon was fired. Correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi were … Read more