Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, Jon Wertheim to Stay at '60 Minutes

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Source: Variety/Yahoo

They're staying.

Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim said in a memo Friday that they would remain at "60 Minutes," potentially calming the chaotic situation that has festered at the CBS News program since the ouster of top executives and three of the program's correspondents, including executive producer Tanya Simon, executive editor Draggan Mihailovich, as well as Sharyn Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega, and, more recently, Scott Pelley.

"We have decided to stay on," the trio said.

But their misgivings over what has happened at the venerable newsmagazine in the past week were made clear. "We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay at' 60 Minutes.' We're still deeply upset by the firings of Tanya and Draggan, strong leaders who everyone respected. As far as we can tell — because no explanation has ever been offered, they were expelled because they fought for our '60 Minutes' values and stood up to protect our independence and integrity," the three journalists said. "Newsrooms are not supposed to be run like dictatorships. Collaboration and argument are the way we have always worked at '60.' Don Hewitt actually encouraged loud passionate advocacy for our pieces."

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Keeping the trio attached to the program was seen as crucial for Weiss and Nick Bilton, the former technology journalist and documentarian who was installed last week as the show's new executive producer. Without them, audiences in the fall would not see any of the program's familiar faces, and there would be no on-air staff in place to front stories that need to be produced and ready in time for the fall.




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[Tetrachloride]

1. Integrity-- Trix are for kids

[Oneironaut]

2. "We have decided to stay on and become propaganda mouth pieces for the state"

The show is already dead. It’s a zombie that needs to be killed. The articles tries to spin outright cowardice and submission into an altruistic desire to fight for journalistic integrity and tradition. It’s a fucking laugh riot.

No, there is nothing noble about caving and agreeing to be a pathetic propagandist who reads government-approved talking points. Let’s be honest with ourselves - the money and fame are good, and, they don’t want it to end. They would sacrifice their integrity, even.

[ananda]

12. Thank you. I can't imagine any decent journalist...

wanting to work for CBS now.

[hamsterjill]

3. I'm sure they were promised the moon to get them to stay.

But they need to remember that promises aren't always kept.

[jrthin]

4. Absolutely no respect for the craven mouthpieces.

[dem4decades]

5. Gutless, which one interviews Kid Rock for the new format?

[twodogsbarking]

6. I wish Andy Rooney was still with us.

He would be 106 though.

[Icanthinkformyself]

7. Glub, glub. glub

they say as they go down with the ship. Do they really need the money that badly? Why didn't they save some of that largesse for this day. It's raining. Legacy corporate media is dead. Long live the corpse.

[2naSalit]

8. That's a shame...

They should leave and help tank the corpse before it stinks out the rest of us.

[rurallib]

9. Money or integrity

pretty easy choice for some

[City Lights]

10. Ick.

They'll forever be covered in trumpstink.

[Miguelito Loveless]

11. Well, they just lost all credibility

by agreeing to be paid puppets for billionaire oligarchs and their fascist rule.

[BlueKota]

13. They should have left

and let the assholes running it face down in a pile of manure where they belong.

[LudwigPastorius]

14. I really don't understand what Stahl is getting out of this.

She's 84 years old, and has an eight figure net worth. She doesn't need the money, and she's got to be close to retiring.

[Marie Marie]

15. Way to stand behind your revered colleague there guys.

If they wanted to stay and fight to keep some integrity in that show, they should have made Scott Pelley's re-hire part of that agreement.

[mn9driver]

16. I doubt they'll be around for long.

Trump will want an act of submission from them in the form of some absurdly slanted story. They will either refuse or have their reputations destroyed. Let’s see which one they pick.