Another 60 Minutes veteran leaves Bari Weiss' CBS News as exodus of talent continues

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Longtime 60 Minutes producer Henry Schuster took a shot at CBS’s editor-in-chief Bari Weiss while announcing he would be leaving the show

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/60-minutes-producer-leaves-cbs-news-b3005813.html

“It has been a great run at 60 Minutes and what I got to do there was extraordinary. But I have been thinking about leaving for a while now and when the opportunity presented itself in February, I took it. And finally, it is official,” he wrote, suggesting that he took a buyout when they were offered by the network earlier this year.

Schuster alluded to the recent staffing shakeups under Weiss, whose “anti-woke” media outlet, The Free Press, was bought by CBS parent company, Paramount, last year. Weiss, who has no broadcast journalism experience, fired executive producer Tanya Simon and correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi. She then hired tech journalist Nick Bilton as executive producer and fired correspondent Scott Pelley after the two clashed.

While Schuster was leaving on his own accord, he noted his exit “has been overshadowed by the forced departures of so many colleagues and friends at the broadcast.”

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1. they don't care if it's "good" as long as it's "dog"

That's a weird way of saying that the oligarchy doesn't need the viewership for CBS. They want obedience.

The rich already have the media pretty much sewn up; even NPR is timid. So whether CBS is profitable or not is no longer relevant. The Ellisons are rich enough.

Now, they are going for the control, the power, the dominance. The iron heel.