Anti-woke CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss left the 60 Minutes team stunned when she asked them to consider why viewers think their coverage is slanted.The self-proclaimed centrist, 41, who has made political neutrality a focal point of her plans for the network, hit journalists with the seven-word question during a private Tuesday meeting, The New York Times reported.'Why does the country think you’re biased?' she asked - leaving the staff and stars of the country's top news program baffled and unable to respond.
I'll bet. It's like asking them their favorite WNBA team - what? who? us?
Going back a bit but there's a reason why Barack Obama did 17 interviews with Steve Kroft of (then) 60 Minutes: he knew it was going to be softball city.
The Atlantic, pre-TDS: "Steve Kroft's Softball Obama Interviews Diminish '60 Minutes'."
On 60 Minutes, the news-magazine show that prides itself on "hard-hitting" investigations and interviews, correspondent Steve Kroft, who has won most of the highest awards in his industry, has just broadcast another softball interview with the most powerful man in the world, a performance that ought to earn him a rebuke from his peers in the news business but almost certainly won't. His CBS bio page proudly touts his unparalleled access to President Obama: He scored the first post-election sit down after Election 2008, another exclusive following the killing of Osama bin Laden, and a third sit-down as the president kicked off his reelection campaign.Little wonder that Obama keeps going back. The 60 Minutes brand is associated with probing interviews, and Kroft is adept at using his tone and manner to create the impression of tough questions without actually asking any.
Read the questions this toadie asked in this interview with Obama, probing insights like "Americans give you high marks!" Nothing has changed all the way up to Kamala's special edit.
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