CBS News insiders fear Bari Weiss will soon enact 'massive changes' to 60 Minutes

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Sat 16 May 2026 07.00 EDT
Last modified on Sat 16 May 2026 07.01 EDT


At a time when viewers are fleeing traditional television shows, the CBS Sunday newsmagazine 60 Minutes remains in a class of its own. The 12 April episode, which featured Pope Leo and a story on great white sharks, drew an astounding 10.1 million total viewers. The show is trending as the most-watched news program for the current broadcast season. So, as the saying goes, if it ain’t broke, why fix it?

That’s what some CBS News employees and veterans are wondering, amid persistent rumors that the show’s 59th season will look very different than the 58th, which ends on 17 May. The next season of the US’s most prestigious news show will be the first fully under the purview of Bari Weiss, the controversial heterodox opinion writer installed as editor-in-chief after Skydance Media officially completed its acquisition of CBS’s parent, Paramount Global, in August 2025.

One longtime network insider said to expect “massive changes” after the season ends, though the network is said to have no plans to blow up the format or to change the show’s award-winning mission. Layoffs are widely expected, however. “People [at 60 Minutes] are afraid and they’re waiting for something monumental to happen here,” said another network insider.

A CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to comment, expressed concern that Weiss would make changes that would damage the show, “just like she has done with everything else at CBS News.”. A third network insider cautioned, however: “They don’t want to turn it upside down.”. Still, the show’s cast will undoubtedly look different.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/16/cbs-bari-weiss-60-minutes

[AZ8theist]

1. MORE Reich Wing propaganda in 3....2......1.....

[paleotn]

4. That no one will watch.

There's already a Reich Wing outlet, Fux News. I don't see the imbeciles switching to CBS. I think the Jews for Shitler cofounder's mission is destruction and little else.

[paleotn]

2. The Jews for Shitler cofounder will fuck that up too.

She's fucked up everything else CBS to date. Why would 60 Minutes be any different?

[Hope22]

3. I think it can pretty much be written off now.

They should save the fear for the less obvious!

[multigraincracker]

5. How is their stock doing?

[chouchou]

6. I'm sure Bari Weiss will make the show even better and a wonderful catchy new name like...

"Good evening...This Is One Hour"

[BumRushDaShow]

8. And instead of a stopwatch

she'll use a cuckoo clock between segments.

[chouchou]

9. Probably fit right in (Get it...Right in..yuck..)

[eppur_se_muova]

10. or ...

[twodogsbarking]

7. The shedevil.

[live love laugh]

11. Information control is now more profitable than ratings.

[3Hotdogs]

12. In the end, it generates more money than selling commercial time to "Depends: The choice of Presidents."

[vapor2]

13. Resigning?

[calimary]

14. DAMN.

That's all I've got. Just one of many swear words.

[krkaufman]

15. Is it "news"

>The show is trending as the most-watched news program …

Is ‘60 Minutes’ really a “news” program? Part of its appeal seems to be that it doesn’t rock the boat.

[Aussie105]

16. If the rot sets in:

Viewership will drop, and the CBS heads will wonder where they went wrong.

Toeing the current political climate limitations and straight-out propaganda has a limited audience.

[electric_blue68]

17. Hopefully.

[not fooled]

18. Of course she will.

Sure seems as though their principal objective is to destroy a source of investigative journalism. Even if no one watches, they've achieved their aims.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

19. Tic...tic...tic...Welcome to 47 Minutes, the News Magazine dedicated to our 47th President...tic...tic...tic...

[FakeNoose]

20. Better that they just CANCEL it now, instead of letting it die a slow, painful death

R.I.P. 60 Minutes

[dobleremolque]

21. Bari Weiss' job is to destroy the credibility

of CBS News and its satellite programs that present vetted, factual, reliably true recitations of events that have happened or are happening. Of course there will be changes. And not good ones. You don't carry out a mandate to destroy something by making it better.

[Marie Marie]

26. I disagree (with all due respect). Bari Weiss has a huge ego (as evidenced by the bust of herself

at that other place she used to run. Sorry forgot the name). I mean who else, other than Trump, places a bust of themselves in the lobby of their workplace? She left the NY times because she blah blah blah {read: thought she was smarter). She took the job at CBS having NO experience in running a news department on television, vowing to turn things around by doing things differently (immediate fail), conducted important interviews by herself instead of turning that over to experienced journalists because she could do it better, interfered with the stories on the above mentioned 60 Minutes because SHE felt the content was slanted and now wants to radically change the only CBS News show that she hasn't yet tanked the ratings.

Yes Trump and Ellison wanted to change the tone at CBS to be more Trump friendly but she is not in disagreement with that and her ego is too large to take a dive for them. She honestly thinks she is smart enough to be more sympathetic to Trump while still making CBS News wildly successful by revamping it into her idea of covering news. In spite of the disaster she has created so far, she does possess the kind of hubris that tells her that she is right and will continue with her plans to shake up the News Division in her image.

She did not take this job to tank CBS. Others may have wanted her to do that but her ego would not take that humiliation. She took the opportunity to show everyone how much smarter she is, how she will go for Fox Lite while improving CBS ratings with her brilliance. She has failed, swiftly and spectacularly, and will continue to do so. She is one of those people who doesn't know what she doesn't know because she thinks she knows better than anyone.

[IcyPeas]

22. I just had a flashback to the blond war correspondent that also worked at 60 Minutes

She was assaulted when she worked in... Iraq(?) And then she turned into a maga-trumper. They could hire her back.

Her name totally escapes me.

[PlanetBev]

25. Lara Logan

She was assaulted in Egypt covering the Arab Spring. The mob tore off her clothes, shouting “Jew, Jew.” First of all, she’s not Jewish. As usual, a mob has no brains. She was very traumatized.

[Icanthinkformyself]

23. It's irrelevant

Legacy media is dead. Who cares what CBS or any of the broadcasters do. They are losers losing viewers and advertisers. Billionaires should invest.

[Jacson6]

24. Terrestrial TV is on it's last legs.

I just watch streaming videos on the internet. I'm as old as the hills. YMMV. IMHO

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

27. See BS

Because it's going right down the shitter

[Cha]

29. I hope so... Fascists FA & FO.

[Cha]

28. whatever gave CBS staffer that idea?

But it's been working out so well for her. Why change now?

[C_U_L8R]

30. Failing upward

How does this person still have a job?