I grew up watching CBS News' "60 Minutes" with my parents. The ticking stopwatch, the voices of Andy Rooney, Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley and Morley Safer – they're woven into my childhood.
Its storied appeal has endured. The program still ranks as the country's most-watched news show, averaging roughly 9 million viewers per episode last season.
But the program is far from perfect. Recent staff shake-ups at "60 Minutes" – and the reaction to them – reveal the ingrained bias of legacy media and the resistance to even acknowledging it exists.
Veteran correspondent Scott Pelley was fired June 2 after he insulted his new boss Nick Bilton's qualifications in a meeting and accused Bari Weiss, CBS News' editor-in-chief, of "murdering" the program. (Insulting your employer rarely ends well.) Weiss took the reins at CBS News in October, after Paramount CEO David Ellison purchased her independent digital outlet The Free Press and hired her for the role.
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