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loser: 60 minutes: Arguably Scott Pelley deserves to be fired for this rant against his new team 60 minutes His boss is Nick Bilton. It doesn’t matter if your job is on Wall Street or at Wendy’s. Try telling your manager in a staff meeting that they have “little qualifications” and “will never be welcomed here” and that the person who hired them is “killing” the company and see how well that goes with you. Billy was said to be making $5 million a year and had bad money and this is what he told his new boss.
But also: 60 minutes It’s become a hot mess, and that falls on the shoulders of Paramount Chairman David Ellison and CBS News Editor-in-Chief Barry Weiss. The leaks, the drama, the resignation, the firing, the last-minute withdrawal of a feature piece on the Trump administration, allegations of pressure to include factual errors or political bias, and now, bringing in Belton, a print veteran and documentary filmmaker — a fine journalist, but one Ellison and Weiss should have known would stir up more internal uproar because he lacked TV experience.
60 minutes Not just a stopwatch logo and magazine format. The show’s longtime correspondents are its trusted heart and connection to viewers, and their number has shrunk from seven to three in a few short months (and Lesley Stahl, an 84-year-old legend who doesn’t need anyone’s “here’s how we can improve your segment” feedback, certainly couldn’t be more thrilled).
Things were so bad that when a rumor spread this week that Paramount was looking to hire Joe Rogan 60 minutesit was actually easier to believe that Paramount brass would try to get the podcast host than to believe that Rogan would want the job.
This is the strangest part. If there’s one news program on television that doesn’t need a major overhaul, this is it 60 minutes. The show is a monster in the Nielsen ratings — the most-watched news program for 52 years in a row — and generates nearly $70 million a year in advertising. Part of the success of this ad is that the offer is trusted and respected. Brand perception is important. It’s a bit surprising that things have reached this level of golden chaos in light of the Vice podcast, genuinely, He is often intelligent, disciplined, and thoughtful.
CBS noted that the show’s ratings are up 9 percent since September (mostly due to the strength of NFL prelims), but that’s an argument against shaking up the show in the past two months. It gives the industry a little confidence in Paramount’s new leadership amid the Warner Bros. merger. If you can’t find ways to update a hit series perfectly formatted for the streaming era that has been running like clockwork for decades without sending its newsroom screaming off the rails, how will you handle running essentially two studios?
winner: Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney and the rest trance He slanders: the trance The Season 3 finale was: “Surprise, the whole show’s over.” That means one thing: in-demand actors no longer have to worry about clearing their busy movie schedules for more seasons of the series. trance. However, it was a downfall in the quality of the Emmy Award-winning HBO series, whose second season was nominated for best drama and whose current season is best known for Cassie’s OnlyFans content of puppies and babies. But viewers also turned out in droves to see how it ended (25 million viewers worldwide, according to HBO) and creator Sam Levinson deserves credit for a relentless finale that addressed the show’s addiction theme in the strongest possible terms. Zendaya’s mother didn’t look happy with the result: ““It definitely made me sad,” she wrote, “and other emotions too. But I’ll just leave it there.”
loser: Electoral process in Los Angeles. We usually know within hours of the polls closing who the next US president will be, as poll workers count up to 170 million votes nationwide. But knowing which candidate will advance during the Los Angeles mayoral primary? Whoa, whoa, whoaWhat do you think about this, the space age? Grab a seat on a folding chair in the waiting room next to the broken snack machine, and we’ll let you know the results in a matter of days — maybe a few weeks — or when we start counting those votes. What, you think this is a city with a $15 billion budget or something?
