Status: “After Scott Pelley chose to publicly confront management at the Bari Weiss-led CBS News over the firing of several colleagues and cite ideologically motivated changes that threatened to compromise the show’s integrity, correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim released a statement saying that they intended to stay. Not because they disputed Pelley’s characterization of events, but rather because, as they succinctly put it, ‘We don’t want to see ’60 Minutes’ die.’”
“The decision might appear to stabilize a situation that risked seeing the entire franchise implode, or at a minimum, struggle to deliver enough stories to populate a 59th season when the program returns from its annual summer hiatus in September.”
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