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'60 Minutes' boss suffers humiliation as memo threatening leakers immediately leaks
Bari Weiss’s Newsroom, and the Leaks It DeservesPower Wears the Mask of OrderThe immediate story is simple enough: Nick Bilton, Bari Weiss’s handpicked executive editor at 60 Minutes, sent a staff email complaining about leaks, and that email leaked too. But the real subject is not the leak. It is the structure that produces it. When leadership centralizes power, makes disruptive personnel moves, and then acts surprised that people talk outside the chain of command, the problem is not gossip. It is a legitimacy crisis.The Source of the NoiseBilton told staff there had been “roughly a rumor a…
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