Opinion: The Doomsday Clock Ticking at Bari Weiss's '60 Minutes'

CBS Broadcast Center squats atop an entire city block of midtown Manhattan. It is an aircraft carrier of a building, a labyrinth of weird hallways, miles of exposed cables, elevators that go to one part of the building but not the other, and the ghost of Andy Rooney wandering around complaining about paperclips.

CBS News and CBS Sports are both housed there, the former of which includes the nightly news program and, of course, 60 Minutes. (The building also leases studio space to The Drew Barrymore Show, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and my own show, Have I Got News For You.)

The turmoil at 60 Minutes is one of those weird inside-baseball stories that sometimes escape the minor-league ballpark of television news. As you're no doubt aware, billionaire progeny David Ellison completed his purchase of CBS in August of last year—after receiving the blessing of the Trump administration following a $16M "settlement" of Trump's ludicrous "election interference" lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris which Trump had deemed "a giant, fake scam."

Also part of the Ellison deal was an explicit promise to root out "political bias" at CBS News as well as a commitment to end all DEI practices at CBS and Paramount. To oversee these commitments, Ellison hired Bari Weiss, the aggrieved-opinion-columnist-turned-MAGA-billionaire-whisperer. Considering that Weiss had no experience in television news before taking the job, the results to date have been as spectacular as you'd expect.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/opinion-doomsday-clock-ticking-bari-154852041.html

Both David Ellison and Donald Trump wouldn't be where they are if they didn't have rich daddies.