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BumRushDaShow

(172,138 posts)
Sat May 16, 2026, 03:56 PM 14 hrs ago

CBS News insiders fear Bari Weiss will soon enact 'massive changes' to 60 Minutes

Source: The Guardian

Sat 16 May 2026 07.00 EDT
Last modified on Sat 16 May 2026 07.01 EDT


At a time when viewers are fleeing traditional television shows, the CBS Sunday newsmagazine 60 Minutes remains in a class of its own. The 12 April episode, which featured Pope Leo and a story on great white sharks, drew an astounding 10.1 million total viewers. The show is trending as the most-watched news program for the current broadcast season. So, as the saying goes, if it ain’t broke, why fix it?

That’s what some CBS News employees and veterans are wondering, amid persistent rumors that the show’s 59th season will look very different than the 58th, which ends on 17 May. The next season of the US’s most prestigious news show will be the first fully under the purview of Bari Weiss, the controversial heterodox opinion writer installed as editor-in-chief after Skydance Media officially completed its acquisition of CBS’s parent, Paramount Global, in August 2025.

One longtime network insider said to expect “massive changes” after the season ends, though the network is said to have no plans to blow up the format or to change the show’s award-winning mission. Layoffs are widely expected, however. “People [at 60 Minutes] are afraid and they’re waiting for something monumental to happen here,” said another network insider.

A CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to comment, expressed concern that Weiss would make changes that would damage the show, “just like she has done with everything else at CBS News.”. A third network insider cautioned, however: “They don’t want to turn it upside down.”. Still, the show’s cast will undoubtedly look different.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/16/cbs-bari-weiss-60-minutes

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CBS News insiders fear Bari Weiss will soon enact 'massive changes' to 60 Minutes (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago OP
MORE Reich Wing propaganda in 3....2......1..... AZ8theist 13 hrs ago #1
That no one will watch. paleotn 13 hrs ago #4
The Jews for Shitler cofounder will fuck that up too. paleotn 13 hrs ago #2
I think it can pretty much be written off now. Hope22 13 hrs ago #3
How is their stock doing? multigraincracker 13 hrs ago #5
I'm sure Bari Weiss will make the show even better and a wonderful catchy new name like... chouchou 13 hrs ago #6
And instead of a stopwatch BumRushDaShow 12 hrs ago #8
Probably fit right in (Get it...Right in..yuck..) chouchou 12 hrs ago #9
or ... eppur_se_muova 11 hrs ago #10
The shedevil. twodogsbarking 13 hrs ago #7
Information control is now more profitable than ratings. live love laugh 11 hrs ago #11
In the end, it generates more money than selling commercial time to "Depends: The choice of Presidents." 3Hotdogs 11 hrs ago #12
Resigning? vapor2 10 hrs ago #13
DAMN. calimary 9 hrs ago #14
Is it "news" krkaufman 9 hrs ago #15
If the rot sets in: Aussie105 9 hrs ago #16
Hopefully. electric_blue68 9 hrs ago #17
Of course she will. not fooled 8 hrs ago #18
Tic...tic...tic...Welcome to 47 Minutes, the News Magazine dedicated to our 47th President...tic...tic...tic... RedWhiteBlueIsRacist 8 hrs ago #19
Better that they just CANCEL it now, instead of letting it die a slow, painful death FakeNoose 8 hrs ago #20
Bari Weiss' job is to destroy the credibility dobleremolque 7 hrs ago #21
I disagree (with all due respect). Bari Weiss has a huge ego (as evidenced by the bust of herself Marie Marie 6 hrs ago #26
I just had a flashback to the blond war correspondent that also worked at 60 Minutes IcyPeas 7 hrs ago #22
Lara Logan PlanetBev 6 hrs ago #25
It's irrelevant Icanthinkformyself 7 hrs ago #23
Terrestrial TV is on it's last legs. Jacson6 7 hrs ago #24
See BS Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 5 hrs ago #27
I hope so... Fascists FA & FO. Cha 5 hrs ago #29
whatever gave CBS staffer that idea? Cha 5 hrs ago #28
Failing upward C_U_L8R 3 hrs ago #30
I think she's looking for a "Gilligan's Island " kind of format. eom SalamanderSleeps 1 hr ago #31
Yasha Levine had a piece on her jfz9580m 15 min ago #32

paleotn

(22,684 posts)
4. That no one will watch.
Sat May 16, 2026, 04:19 PM
13 hrs ago

There's already a Reich Wing outlet, Fux News. I don't see the imbeciles switching to CBS. I think the Jews for Shitler cofounder's mission is destruction and little else.

paleotn

(22,684 posts)
2. The Jews for Shitler cofounder will fuck that up too.
Sat May 16, 2026, 04:17 PM
13 hrs ago

She's fucked up everything else CBS to date. Why would 60 Minutes be any different?

Hope22

(4,878 posts)
3. I think it can pretty much be written off now.
Sat May 16, 2026, 04:18 PM
13 hrs ago

They should save the fear for the less obvious!

chouchou

(3,294 posts)
6. I'm sure Bari Weiss will make the show even better and a wonderful catchy new name like...
Sat May 16, 2026, 04:51 PM
13 hrs ago

"Good evening...This Is One Hour"

3Hotdogs

(15,540 posts)
12. In the end, it generates more money than selling commercial time to "Depends: The choice of Presidents."
Sat May 16, 2026, 06:39 PM
11 hrs ago

krkaufman

(13,966 posts)
15. Is it "news"
Sat May 16, 2026, 08:20 PM
9 hrs ago

>The show is trending as the most-watched news program …

Is ‘60 Minutes’ really a “news” program? Part of its appeal seems to be that it doesn’t rock the boat.

Aussie105

(8,164 posts)
16. If the rot sets in:
Sat May 16, 2026, 08:29 PM
9 hrs ago

Viewership will drop, and the CBS heads will wonder where they went wrong.

Toeing the current political climate limitations and straight-out propaganda has a limited audience.

not fooled

(6,759 posts)
18. Of course she will.
Sat May 16, 2026, 09:42 PM
8 hrs ago

Sure seems as though their principal objective is to destroy a source of investigative journalism. Even if no one watches, they've achieved their aims.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,233 posts)
19. Tic...tic...tic...Welcome to 47 Minutes, the News Magazine dedicated to our 47th President...tic...tic...tic...
Sat May 16, 2026, 09:45 PM
8 hrs ago

FakeNoose

(42,368 posts)
20. Better that they just CANCEL it now, instead of letting it die a slow, painful death
Sat May 16, 2026, 10:03 PM
8 hrs ago

R.I.P. 60 Minutes

dobleremolque

(1,131 posts)
21. Bari Weiss' job is to destroy the credibility
Sat May 16, 2026, 10:19 PM
7 hrs ago

of CBS News and its satellite programs that present vetted, factual, reliably true recitations of events that have happened or are happening. Of course there will be changes. And not good ones. You don't carry out a mandate to destroy something by making it better.

Marie Marie

(11,507 posts)
26. I disagree (with all due respect). Bari Weiss has a huge ego (as evidenced by the bust of herself
Sat May 16, 2026, 11:54 PM
6 hrs ago

at that other place she used to run. Sorry forgot the name). I mean who else, other than Trump, places a bust of themselves in the lobby of their workplace? She left the NY times because she blah blah blah {read: thought she was smarter). She took the job at CBS having NO experience in running a news department on television, vowing to turn things around by doing things differently (immediate fail), conducted important interviews by herself instead of turning that over to experienced journalists because she could do it better, interfered with the stories on the above mentioned 60 Minutes because SHE felt the content was slanted and now wants to radically change the only CBS News show that she hasn't yet tanked the ratings.

Yes Trump and Ellison wanted to change the tone at CBS to be more Trump friendly but she is not in disagreement with that and her ego is too large to take a dive for them. She honestly thinks she is smart enough to be more sympathetic to Trump while still making CBS News wildly successful by revamping it into her idea of covering news. In spite of the disaster she has created so far, she does possess the kind of hubris that tells her that she is right and will continue with her plans to shake up the News Division in her image.

She did not take this job to tank CBS. Others may have wanted her to do that but her ego would not take that humiliation. She took the opportunity to show everyone how much smarter she is, how she will go for Fox Lite while improving CBS ratings with her brilliance. She has failed, swiftly and spectacularly, and will continue to do so. She is one of those people who doesn't know what she doesn't know because she thinks she knows better than anyone.

IcyPeas

(25,779 posts)
22. I just had a flashback to the blond war correspondent that also worked at 60 Minutes
Sat May 16, 2026, 10:19 PM
7 hrs ago

She was assaulted when she worked in... Iraq(?) And then she turned into a maga-trumper. They could hire her back.

Her name totally escapes me.


PlanetBev

(4,415 posts)
25. Lara Logan
Sat May 16, 2026, 11:28 PM
6 hrs ago

She was assaulted in Egypt covering the Arab Spring. The mob tore off her clothes, shouting “Jew, Jew.” First of all, she’s not Jewish. As usual, a mob has no brains. She was very traumatized.




Icanthinkformyself

(422 posts)
23. It's irrelevant
Sat May 16, 2026, 10:56 PM
7 hrs ago

Legacy media is dead. Who cares what CBS or any of the broadcasters do. They are losers losing viewers and advertisers. Billionaires should invest.

Jacson6

(2,195 posts)
24. Terrestrial TV is on it's last legs.
Sat May 16, 2026, 11:00 PM
7 hrs ago

I just watch streaming videos on the internet. I'm as old as the hills. YMMV. IMHO

Cha

(320,496 posts)
28. whatever gave CBS staffer that idea?
Sun May 17, 2026, 12:39 AM
5 hrs ago

But it's been working out so well for her. Why change now?

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