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Battle between Bari Weiss and ‘60 Minutes’ explodes as Scott Pelley accuses her of murdering the show

A recording obtained by the Times captured the veteran anchor questioning Weiss' qualifications

By Howard Kurtz Fox News

Published June 2, 2026 3:00am EDT

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Bari Weiss was ‘100% correct’ to pause ‘60 Minutes’ segment: Michael Shellenberger

‘Public News’ founder Michael Shellenberger praises CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss for pausing a controversial ‘60 Minutes’ segment on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’

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If you thought there was an uproar at "60 Minutes," that was pattycake compared to what happened yesterday.

Bari Weiss has been under assault by journalists and commentators since becoming editor-in-chief of CBS, mostly from liberals and left-leaners who are convinced she’s a crazy conservative. That’s not true, and I’ve mostly defended her, but she has made some rookie mistakes as someone who never worked in television.

So even as the headlines swirled around President Donald Trump’s decision to drop the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund – made possible because many Republicans joined Democrats in openly criticizing the fund aimed at the Jan. 6 rioters – Weiss is facing a rebellion of her own.

First she fired "60 Minutes" correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi (whose story on a Salvador prison she held, but ran intact after Trump officials wouldn’t appear), along with executive producer........

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