Longtime '60 Minutes' Correspondent Says Trump Has 'Executed' Program

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Source: Huffington Post

A longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent has no doubt about what led to the behind-the-scenes tumult and growing list of staff departures at the flagship news program.

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Speaking to Status in an interview published Friday, former “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft acknowledged questioning the show’s direction in recent years, but said he couldn’t have predicted the current state of affairs.

The ongoing shakeup, he said, is being driven by President Donald Trump.

“Since I retired, I often wondered what would happen to ‘60 Minutes,’” said Kroft, who concluded his run at the program in 2019 after 30 seasons. “But I never expected it would be executed by the president of the United States.”

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/longtime-60-minutes-correspondent-says-182618463.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Steve Kroft as I recall reading, is a Republican of long standing.

Or at least he was way back when

[mdbl]

2. I wonder who he voted for.

[Martin68]

3. The Trump regime is bent on destroying real journalism, objective news analysis, scientific research funding, reasonable

regulation, the rule of law, and anything else that stands in the way of unlimited wealth and power for him and his cohorts.

[lostnfound]

4. Systematically removing supports to democratic./ civic life

uninformed voters wont know what hit them.

[The Wizard]

5. Weiss is modeling CBS

after Pravda, TAAS and Izvestia. How much did George Soros pay Trump to undermine the Republican Party?