{"id":243750,"date":"2026-06-02T03:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/we-need-andy-and-a-camera-war-is-breaking-out-bts-of-60-minutes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T03:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:09:19","slug":"we-need-andy-and-a-camera-war-is-breaking-out-bts-of-60-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/we-need-andy-and-a-camera-war-is-breaking-out-bts-of-60-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"We need Andy and a camera: war is breaking out bts of 60 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/60Minutes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#60Minutes<\/a> correspondent Scott Pelley lashed out at the program\u2019s new executive producer Nick Bolton during a Monday meeting, accusing him of \u201cmurdering \u201860 Minutes\u2019\u201d and having \u201cslender qualifications for this job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CBS News hopes to keep Pelley and the remaining correspondents\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PNVszGIEmE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PNVszGIEmE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2061509102388556276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-Longtime 60 minutes correspondent Scott Pelley accused CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss of \u201cmurdering\u201d the show, questioning her qualifications and that of the new executive producer, Nick Bilton despite having never worked in traditional broadcast news. Bilton replaced Tanya Simon, a 60 Minutes veteran who was named executive producer last year.<\/p>\n<p>-During a staff meeting, Bilton attempted to ease tension of 60 minutes staff stating \u201cThe rumors people are spreading, that I\u2019m going to turn the show into 60 one-minute episodes, that it\u2019s going to be like TikTok, that is not changing. The show is going to stay exactly like it is for now,\u201d Bilton said, per the Times. He also defended Weiss, telling the staff that she \u201cloves 60 Minutes.\u201d Scott Pelley responded, \u201cShe is murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she\u2019s been doing exactly that. She has no qualifications for her job; you have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she\u2019s made at the Evening News have been catastrophic, so why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-Pelley also confronted Bilton over the firings of Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega asking him why he took a job \u201cknowing that you will never be welcome here,\u201d to which Bilton responded \u201cI have no problem taking a job in a place that I am not welcome in. I don\u2019t think that will be the case,\u201d <\/p>\n<p>-Charles Forelle, a top deputy to Ms. Weiss, urged Mr. Pelley not to act \u201crude\u201d toward Mr. Bilton. \u201cI\u2019m not being rude,\u201d Mr. Pelley responded. \u201cYou know what was rude? Black Thursday was rude.\u201d Referring to the firing spree of Cecilia Vega, 60 Minutes&#8217; first Latina correspondent, and Sharyn Alfonsi, whose feature on torture in Salvadoran prisons that held Donald Trump&#8217;s deportees was abruptly pulled by Bari, leading to mass backlash. Draggan Mihailovich, the executive editor of the program, and Matthew Polevoy, a senior producer, were also fired.<\/p>\n<p>-Anderson Cooper who joined 60 Minutes in 2006, ended his 20-year run on the program earlier this month. He gave a thinly veiled critique of Weiss&#8217;s overhaul of the network which left Weiss blindsided and furious by the comments, which came just after Cooper decided not to renew his contract.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2061509102388556276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132413607.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#60Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley lashed out at the program\u2019s new executive producer Nick Bolton during a Monday meeting, accusing him of \u201cmurdering \u201860 Minutes\u2019\u201d and having \u201cslender qualifications for this job.\u201d CBS News hopes to keep Pelley and the remaining correspondents\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/PNVszGIEmE &mdash; Variety (@Variety) June 1, 2026 -Longtime 60 minutes correspondent Scott Pelley accused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}