MAGA-Curious CBS Boss Humiliated in ‘60 Minutes’ Rehiring Bid

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Attempts to clean up the mess at 60 Minutes caused by CBS News’ MAGA-curious editor-in-chief Bari Weiss were met with humiliating pushback.

Nick Bilton, the flagship magazine show’s new executive producer, took the extraordinary step of trying to convince Draggan Mihailovich, who was purged by Weiss on what CBS staff have https://www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-staffers-have-coined-a-nickname-for-brutal-day/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-staffers-have-coined-a-nickname-for-brutal-day/">dubbed “Black Thursday,” to return to the show, https://www.status.news/p/nick-bilton-60-minutes-draggan-mihailovich?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=bilton-s-60-seance&_bhlid=4cdb1692e1774b9c1b2a563f33217edd57cc83f0" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.status.news/p/nick-bilton-60-minutes-draggan-mihailovich?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=bilton-s-60-seance&_bhlid=4cdb1692e1774b9c1b2a563f33217edd57cc83f0">reported Status.

Bilton asked the few remaining 60 Minutes correspondents—Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim—to contact Mihailovich and ask him whether he would be willing to return, but he declined.

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