Overview
- At a private meeting last week, Weiss asked senior 60 Minutes staff, “Why does the country think you’re biased?,” a question that attendees described as producing stunned awkwardness, according to The New York Times.
- She has personally helped secure high-profile bookings unusual for a network chief, including Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump advisers Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff for Sunday’s 60 Minutes.
- Weiss has pressed executives to identify leakers after her private remarks surfaced in the press, a move drawing scrutiny given that her outlet The Free Press previously published leaked CBS material.
- The Writers Guild of America East told members they would not face discipline for declining Weiss’s request to submit memos detailing their daily duties and recent work.
- Early turnover and oversight shifts are underway, with standards chief Claudia Milne departing and a company memo outlining the role of an ombudsman to handle bias complaints.