The legendary stopwatch is under new management?and it?s about time.
In a blockbuster move to restore sanity to television?s most iconic
news magazine, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has officially
tapped tech guru and author Nick Bilton, 49, as the new executive
producer of 60 Minutes. Bilton?s high-profile hiring comes as the
network attempts to rebuild its credibility following years of
accusations of left-leaning reporting and anti-Trump hit jobs.
?That is why Bari hired me,? Bilton told staff in an introductory memo. ?Evolving or dying isn?t a threat. It?s simple math.?
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Left-leaning media critics seized on Bilton?s lack of television news experience, with several framing the hire as evidence that Weiss is
remaking CBS News in her own image.
?I?ve Had It? podcast co-host Jennifer Welch ripped the decision,
disparaging David and Larry Ellison, who control Paramount Global and
CBS News, while describing Weiss as a ?prostitute? ordered to broadcast ?effusive stories? on President Donald Trump.
?The Ellison family purchased her and said we want you to propagandize
all day, every day,? she claimed.
Former CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta also claimed
Weiss is beholden to the Trump administration.
?The wheels have come off over at CBS and Bari Weiss only has herself
to blame,? he said.
Journalist Katie Couric, who has been accused of bias by conservatives
for decades, said Weiss ?is woefully unprepared for this job,? saying,
?Part of the problem was that Bari Weiss has never run a network news division.?
For years, critics accused 60 Minutes of operating as a protection
racket for the Democratic establishment, alienating half the country in
the process. Tensions reached a boiling point during the fallout from
the now-infamous Kamala Harris ?word salad? interview scandal in 2024,
when CBS was caught selectively editing Harris?s comments about Israel
for a more polished clip from a completely different part of the
discussion.
The ensuing outrage sparked a $10 billion fraud lawsuit from Donald
Trump, which concluded in July 2025 with a defeat for CBS. The parent
company, Paramount, was forced to fork over a massive $16 million
settlement.
The legal beating triggered a major upheaval inside the newsroom.
Longtime executive producer Bill Owens packed his bags in April 2025
amid mounting criticism over the program?s editorial direction.
Weiss stepped in by October 2025, immediately flexing her editorial
muscles.
In December, she spiked a planned Sharyn Alfonsi segment that smeared
the Trump administration?s deportation policies while burying critical
context about violent Venezuelan gang members tied to the story.
It wasn?t the first time the show had faced such accusations. In 2021,
60 Minutes drew bipartisan condemnation?including from top Florida Democrats?after unleashing a segment on GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis. Critics
accused the show of deceptively editing footage to push a fake ?pay-
to-play? conspiracy involving grocery giant Publix while omitting facts
that destroyed their desired narrative.
Meanwhile, the show also faced scrutiny for routinely coddling foreign dictators, including a 2022 sit-down where Lesley Stahl failed to
adequately challenge Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who openly
engaged in Holocaust denial.
Enter Bilton. The former New York Times tech reporter, Vanity Fair investigator, and mastermind behind bestsellers like American Kingpin
and Hatching Twitter is vowing that the old days of partisan arrogance
are over. Pointing out that consumers are now ?stalked by algorithms?
that weaponize anger, Bilton declared his top priority is fixing the
network?s broken bond with the public.
?My responsibility is not just technological transformation. It is also
our trust with the public,? Bilton said. ?Above all, that means a
commitment to fairness?in story selection, in the edit room, and in the broadcast.?
Whether Bilton can overhaul one of America?s most entrenched liberal
newsrooms remains to be seen. But according to staff reports, employees
have been given 30 days to make their case before major changes begin.
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