There are times in life when you don’t dare ask someone a simple “How are you?” for fear of them backing up their emotional 18-wheeler and dumping its contents all over you. That must have been at least part of the reaction of New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro when she sat down with former CBS employee Scott Pelley last week. In what turned out to be a tearful encounter session, Pelley touched on a range of feelings and barely managed to hold back tears twice. All the whimpering had to do with a purge of several 60 Minutes personnel, including Pelley.
Backtracking a bit, it’s logical to conclude that this was always how it was going to end for the crew at 60 Minutes. However, what seems obvious to the outsider apparently did not dawn on someone inside the tent. That is, the hiring of Bari Weiss as the head honcho of CBS News was meant to bring some semblance of balance to the network and would likely result in the termination of many in the newsroom.
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