"60 Minutes" infected by Trumpism

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Bari Weiss brings Trumpism to “60 Minutes”
CBS News is pushing out dissenters, replacing them with inexperienced hires

By Sophia Tesfaye
Senior Writer
Published June 1, 2026 12:30PM (EDT)
Updated June 1, 2026 2:14PM (EDT)


(Salon) Bari Weiss is running the Trump playbook at “60 Minutes.” It goes like this: Take an institution that still commands public trust, install loyalists with no relevant experience in positions of authority, fire the people who push back, dress the whole operation in the language of reform — fairness, innovation, a new direction — and you dare anyone to prove that what you’re really doing is building a protection racket.

For years before she landed at CBS News in October, Weiss built a career criticizing ideological conformity and supposed institutional intolerance. Yet in her brief tenure atop the network’s news division, she has presided over exactly the kind of purge-and-replace operation that has become synonymous with Trumpism.

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For nearly 60 years, “60 Minutes” has stood apart because of its stubborn independence and commitment to irritating powerful people. The persistent, rhythmic ticking of the “60 Minutes” stopwatch is like the heartbeat of American investigative journalism. Week after week, the broadcast proved that uncompromising, adversarial reporting was not just a civic necessity but a commercially triumphant enterprise, regularly ranking as the number one program on all of television and drawing an average of 9.1 million viewers per episode. By virtually every traditional metric, “60 Minutes” was thriving.

But Weiss has moved quickly to remake the institution in her image. She arrived at CBS News in October with no broadcast television experience, installed as editor-in-chief after Paramount’s merger with Skydance, the production company owned by David Ellison, son of Oracle billionaire and Trump loyalist Larry Ellison. Once inside, Weiss proceeded to surround herself with people whose resumes share her defining characteristic: print media backgrounds, no broadcast experience and an ideological comfort zone well within the current administration’s tolerance. She brought in Adam Rubenstein, a former New York Times and Free Press staffer, as deputy editor-in-chief, and tapped Charles Forelle, a former Wall Street Journal editor, as managing editor. ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/06/01/bari-weiss-brings-trumpism-to-60-minutes/

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