The sanctimonious behavior continued to spew from the hallways of CBS News this week as longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl told Puck on Sunday the past few weeks have been “awful,” “the hardest chapter of my career,” and “by far the worst experience I’ve been involved in, or even witnessed.”
She also supposedly, as per the creeps at Status, “convened a champagne toast on Monday for” 60 Minutes staff to celebrate her decision to stay and that, as first reported by fellow anti-CBS-obsessed Guardian reporter Jeremy Barr, Paramount Skydance boss David Ellison “called her and pledged that the show would be independent and also apologized for some of the recent turmoil and said things would get back on the right track.”
Just like with former colleague Scott Pelley comparing the turnover to a spouse and immediate family being “murdered” in one swoop, Stahl showed how dense and pampered her multi-million dollar ego is and a remarkably offensive world view compared to those who have actually lost everything.
Stahl spoke to Puck’s William Cohan and said, “oh, god, this was awful” in reaction to having to decide whether to board a flight to Madrid (the horror!) for a story even though the segment producer assigned to the unidentified story had just been let go.
Talk about First World problems:
Lesley told me she had to make a snap decision. And while it was just about one particular story for the historic TV newsmagazine, now entering its 59th season, it was also suddenly imbued with fraught significance pertaining to the institution itself. “I had to make a decision to go forward with the story, without knowing if I was going to stay or not,” she told me. In the end, she decided to get on the flight, “not knowing where I was headed.” (Stahl declined to say what the segment is going to be about. I know, but out of respect for her and the show’s process, I’ll keep that under wraps.)
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