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The Unmaking of 60 Minutes
The most successful news program in television just got handed to someone who has never run a television news program.
Again.
First, David Ellison installed Bari Weiss to run CBS News. Now Weiss has installed Nick Bilton to run 60 Minutes. Neither came up through broadcast news. Neither spent years managing network newsrooms. Neither climbed the ladder that generations of CBS journalists spent decades climbing. And now they’re in charge of one of the most successful and influential news organizations in American history.
That would be a remarkable gamble under any circumstances.
It’s even…
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