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New 60 Minutes head's attempt to rehire fired high-profile editor flops: report
The CBS broadcasting logo is seen outside the CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan, New York on July 30, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File PhotoCBS Is Selling Autonomy While Management Keeps Pulling the StringsThe Real Center of PowerThe reporting makes one thing plain: this is not a story about wounded egos at 60 Minutes. It is a story about institutional power being exercised upward, by CBS News head Bari Weiss and, behind her, ownership. Nick Bilton can send memos, praise correspondents, and plead for reconciliation. That is triage, not authority. The people who can fire, approve, and…
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