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Bari Weiss keeps firing correspondents in her quest to make CBS more rightwing
The latest journalist to be fired by Bari Weiss, the freshly-minted editor-in-chief of CBS News, was Scott Pelley. Clearly, self-declared “Zionist fanatic“ Weiss is overhauling the news division.
Oracle’s David Ellison, another Zionist, acquired CBS owner Paramount and installed Weiss last year.
Just last week, on Thursday morning, CBS News fired correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who had feuded with Weiss over a delayed 60 Minutes segment, and executive producer Tanya Simon.
Washington Post’s Scott Nover listed the four correspondents of CBS’s 60 Minutes who have been fired or resigned since Weiss became head.
2025-26 “60 Minutes” Correspondents:
• Lesley Stahl
• Bill Whitaker
• L. Jon Wertheim
• Norah O’Donnell
• Anderson Cooper (resigned)
• Sharyn Alfonsi (fired)
• Cecilia Vega (fired)
• Scott Pelley (fired)https://t.co/zNRuTTEq0O https://t.co/fDGqGSXSI8— Scott Nover (@ScottNover) June 3, 2026
Nover also reported that “60 Minutes” staffers, past and present, were outraged about Pelley’s firing.
Bari Weiss ‘was brought in to kill it’
Just a day before Pelley was fired, he said in a tense meeting with CBS colleagues that:
She is murdering ‘60 Minutes. She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that.
He aimed this at Nick Bilton, a Bari Weiss loyalist. Bilton is the programme’s new executive producer, installed by Weiss.
Following his termination the next day, Pelley accused CBS of pressuring him to insert bias into stories. Journalist Mehdi Hasan called CBS, “the new Fox.”
Fox News is a rabidly right-wing news channel.
“Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments.”
Pretty important part of the story. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox https://t.co/kmW5ZAIo1I
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) June 3, 2026
More Fox News is not what we need, but in this topsy-turvy world, it’s what we are getting.
Featured image via Getty/Leigh Vogel
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