CBS Boss Explains Why Anti-Trump ’60 Minutes’ Host Was Fired

“Yesterday’s performative display of hostility—enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation—demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress,” the memo added.

“I am here to deliver first-in-class news programming, not to make headlines about newsroom drama. I am eager to work alongside those who share this goal,” Bilton said.

“She does not love this place,” Pelley reportedly said of Weiss. “She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that.”

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