New '60 Minutes' Executive Producer Sends Out Memo After Scott Pelley Firing, Says Show Will Never Be "Instructed By The

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Source: Deadline

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Following the firing of Scott Pelley and others at 60 Minutes, the show's new executive producer Nick Bilton sent out a new memo to staffers Thursday in an effort to offer assurances about the program's future amid allegations of corporate influence.

"We will always make the story the North Star — not relationships nor politics nor anything else. We will be guided solely and always by what makes the best piece for our viewers," Bilton wrote in the memo sent on Thursday (read it below). "And it should go without saying, but I'll say it anyway: We will never be instructed by the ownership of the company on these stories."

Bilton also wrote that he has had conversations with the show's three remaining full-time correspondents, Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim, though his memo did not indicate whether they planned to stay with the show. He also offered them words of praise, calling them "core to this show's success."

"We talked about what makes 60 Minutes exceptional, about the traditions and legacy of the past, about how you do the work that produces such momentous pieces. We also talked about change: About new audiences, new platforms, and new ways of storytelling that these new audiences need."

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/60-minutes-executive-producer-sends-205124154.html

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Until Bari Weiss says otherwise

[Deuxcents]

1. Doublespeak. That's how I read this

[charliea]

12. I read that as

Straight out lies. I believe Scott Pelley's reporting on the meeting where he got fired, he has a record of credible journalism. Given that Weiss's description of it is so wildly different demonstrates to me that they are simple lying propagandists...

[Prairie Gates]

2. Up is down, and down is up

[Cheezoholic]

3. Owners of the company don't have to do shit. They already placed the power into sycophants hands

And the Ellison's could give 2 shits whether 60 min makes it or not. they want those catalogues. They also will become the most powerful people in Hollyweird so movies and shows with integrity will be shit canned for Candyland BS. This is why Ruffalo et al are so against it.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. Yeah right

And if my aunt had that and those, she'd be my uncle.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. This whole thing is a mess.....

brought on by a bunch of chicken-shits sucking up to their fat fascist ‘hero!’
I see this guy trying his best to keep a job - instead of having any integrity.

[GregGilman]

6. Just like Fox News?

Remember when the Fox News catchphrase was "Fair and Balanced"? This is the same thing.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Dimwit doesn't even understand what he's saying

"The story" doesn't write itself. It's not a North Star, it's crafted by the personnel that create it. The guy is upside down.

[chowder66]

8. Trump isn't an owner.

He'll be making the calls or someone on his team will. He's been doing it for a while now.

[FakeNoose]

9. Ho-hum .... nobody cares ... (click!)

[BidenRocks]

10. There's your problem.

60 Minutes IS NOT storytelling!
'Alternate facts' lead to storytelling!

We are not the idiots you hope we are!

Check your ratings!

[dobleremolque]

11. Ah, I see the problem......

"We will be guided solely and always by what makes the best piece for our viewers," Bilton wrote...

Being guided by empirically demonstrable facts is a better metric than what you think "...makes the best piece for our viewers...."

[Festivito]

13. Not instructed by ownership..... we already know what they want.

. A good story the public are being fed. Don't worry about facts driving the story. Facts don't get mentioned in this response.

I gather, what drives a piece is the story and not so much the facts that tell the story.

[Ray Bruns]

14. "We will never be instructed by the ownership of the company on these stories."

Yeah right. And I have some beachfront property for sale in Montana.

[rurallib]

15. Baghdad Bob returns

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Right because the owners talk to you, Bilton.

Moron.