Unpacking the 60 Minutes Saga: Why Scott Pelley Accused Bari Weiss of “Murdering” the CBS News Show

Upon arrival at CBS News last fall, Weiss wrote in a memo to employees, per Deadline, that she would approach their concerns about what was working and what wasn’t with “an open mind, a fresh notebook, and an urgent deadline.”

But then one story after another about the goings-on at CBS News described an increasingly disgruntled newsroom.

The reports of discord prompted criticism from Gayle King in January, with the CBS Mornings anchor chastising “leakers in the building” during a staff meeting, according to a recording obtained and reviewed at the time by The Independent. 

“If you don’t want to be here, if this is not the place, it’s OK,” King said toward the end of a Q&A session, per the Independent. “But for the rest of us who would like to be here, who’d like to do a good job and figure things out along the way, this is a very bumpy time for all of us.”