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\n\tFormer 60 Minutes<\/em> correspondent Steve Kroft is weighing in on the major shakeup of the flagship newsmagazine.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn a Wednesday interview with PBS News\u2019 Geoff Bennett, Kroft was asked his thoughts on recent events, including Scott Pelley\u2019s firing, the dismissal of EP Tanya Simon, and correspondents Cecilia Vega\u00a0and\u00a0Sharyn Alfonsi also being let go.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s been disastrous for the show, for the audience, which is not insubstantial,\u201d he replied. \u201cIt\u2019s been going on for a long time. It began, really, with an interview that Bill Whitaker had done with Kamala Harris in which CBS was sued for $17 million by the Trump administration for what they called an \u2018illegal edit.\u2019 The lawsuit had absolutely no merit, yet CBS, Paramount decided to settle the case for $17 million. And since then, it\u2019s just been sort of one thing after another.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBennett also noted that recent shifts have arrived as Paramount is seeking approval by the Trump-backed FCC for its mega-merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. \u201cI think that Paramount has just decided that was the only thing that was going to be important, and they were going to try and block anything that might get in the way of it,\u201d Kroft said of getting the merger approved by the FCC.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe former 60 Minutes<\/em> correspondent noted that Pelley said he asked Bari Weiss why EP Tanya Simon was fired, and \u201cshe refused to answer the questions, which leaves you with what\u2019s been said by the president and by his staff and the chairman of the FCC, that they don\u2019t like the way CBS has been operated. They don\u2019t like the fact that [60 Minutes<\/em>] is on the air, they\u2019d like to see it taken off the air, they\u2019ve said that a number of times, they\u2019d like to see people fired, and that\u2019s what\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPelley was fired on Tuesday after an intense meeting with 60 Minutes<\/em>\u2018 new executive producer, Nick Bilton, on Monday. In that meeting, Pelley argued that CBS News editor-in-chief Weiss is \u201cmurdering\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>. She does not love this place; she was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tBennett asked Kroft where the line between business decisions and journalistic interference lands in this case, to which Kroft said he believed the overhaul is the latter. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think that this is journalistic interference. It makes no business sense whatsoever. [60 Minutes<\/em>] is still doing very well; it\u2019s the highest-rated news program on television, and it has been that way for more than 50 years,\u201d he said. \u201cThe audience was up about nine percent last year. And why would you mess with that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKroft, who spent 30 seasons at 60 Minutes<\/em>, recently opened up about his time working on the newsmagazine, admitting that he \u201chated\u201d the job. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c60 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0was really appealing, and I thought, I wasn\u2019t really sure I was ever going to get there. I didn\u2019t really seriously think about it. When I did, there\u2019s so many things that, first of all, the job is just 24 hours a day,\u201d he said of his experience working on the show. \u201cI mean, you may get a couple hours of bad sleep. Beepers going off, getting on jets, going here and there, the whole thing, then coming back and spending, you know, three or four days writing the script, and then going to the screenings and then getting on, starting it all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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