CBS premiered the 59th play of "60 Minutes" connected Sunday, pinch familiar faces for illustration Norah O'Donnell, Lesley Stahl, and Jon Wertheim.
Sunday's section included 3 main segments: an question and reply pinch a US Air Force Officer rescued from Iran, a conception astir brokers offering felons paths to pardons from President Donald Trump astatine precocious cost, and a floor plan of the Los Angeles Rams.
"We don't often nonstop notes to the full newsroom. But coming calls for it. It's a large infinitesimal for 60 Minutes and CBS," CBS leadership wrote successful a memo to unit connected Sunday to beforehand the latest season.
The premiere follows a turbulent fewer months astatine "60 Minutes," marked by high-profile exits, specified arsenic those of longtime correspondents Scott Pelley and Anderson Cooper, and staff discontent complete editor successful main Bari Weiss' direction.
Here's what smart group successful media are saying astir the caller season.
Brian Steinberg, Variety TV editor
Brian Steinberg, a elder TV Editor for Variety, wrote successful a Sunday article that the caller season, which promised change, "relied connected galore elements from the program's past."
"Viewers connected Sunday nighttime sewage only a little glimpse of Ross Douthat, and nary of Sebastian Junger, Gianna Toboni, Trevor Phillips aliases Ariel Levy, but were alternatively greeted by 3 correspondents who already person an relation pinch the program," Steinberg wrote.
Alex Marquardt, Al Jazeera English host
Alex Marquadt, the erstwhile CNN main nationalist information analogous and big of Al Jazeera English's "This is America," wrote astir the "60 Minutes" conception connected X.
"The Pentagon rolled retired the reddish carpet for this 60 Minutes piece: Sec Hegseth, Gen Caine, Adm Cooper + the weapons systems master each sat down pinch Norah O'Donnell," he wrote.
Tim Miller, big of The Bulwark Podcast
Tim Miller, a governmental commentator and big of The Bulwark Podcast, criticized 1 conception of Sunday's show hosted by Lesley Stahl: the communicative astir brokers offering group who person committed felonies a way to receiving pardons from President Donald Trump astatine precocious cost.
"Doing a communicative astir pardon maltreatment and making it astir Burkman and Wohl is for illustration doing a communicative astir crypto corruption and focusing connected Hawk Tuah girl," Miller wrote connected X. "Like yea they are scammers and that's bad it's good to do. But they aren't successful the aforesaid beingness arsenic the existent corruption."
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Aditi is simply a news newsman astatine Business Insider’s Singapore bureau. She covers hustle civilization and the early of work, focusing connected really AI and exertion are reshaping jobs, careers, and workplaces.She antecedently worked for The Straits Times, wherever she wrote breaking news stories for the Singapore desk. She studied communications and business astatine Nanyang Technological University.
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