The Daily Beast
Tim Knox/eyevine/Redux CBS legends have delivered a scathing rebuke of the network’s leadership after editor-in-chief Bari Weiss purged 60 Minutes staff amid her continuing MAGA makeover. More than 100 CBS veterans and other signatories sent an open letter on Monday to Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, the Trump-friendly billionaire who took over CBS last year, blasting “the wholesale dismissal of editorial management” at 60 Minutes . Among the signatories were legendary former CBS Evening News anchor and 60 Minutes correspondent Dan Rather, Pulitzer Prize-winning 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman, Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney, and eight-time Oscar nominee, along with dozens of former CBS staffers, according to a copy of the letter posted by The New York Times’ Ben Mullin. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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