Hello, everyone. An extraordinary moment in broadcast journalism today. Over at the home offices

of CBS News, the recently decapitated staff of 60 Minutes came together with their new boss,

Nick Bilton, the new executive producer, who met the staff, and holy schnikes, Scott Pelly, stood up and did like your best

version of Walter Cronkite or just pick your journalism hero and went toe to toe with the new guy

to call out Barry Weiss and the Ellisons and what the

corporate overlords are doing in order to try to murder 60 minutes. I'm JVL here with my

bulwark colleague, Will Summer. Will take me through what happened at this meeting this morning.

Sure. So the very brief backstory is,

you know, last week, Barry Weiss kind of lopped off a lot of the chief producers and, you know,

correspondent Sharon Alfonzi, Cecilia Vega, out of there. And so now this is kind of her attempt

to cement it, to cement her control and the Ellison's control over 60 minutes. And so we see Nick

Billton meets with the staff for his first all control over 60 minutes. And so we see Nick Bilton meets with

the staff for his first all-hands meeting. And basically Scott Pelly, you know, one of the legendary

60 Minutes correspondence, he really gets into it with Nick Bilton and, you know, hold his feet to the

fire and Nick Bilton basically wilts and, you know, kind of gets owned in various ways.

It was amazing to me because Bilton, so we know this.

So our friends over at Oliver Darcy's status newsletter got the scoop with an audio

recording of the meeting.

And they gave us not a full transcript, but a very detailed blow by blow.

And it seems to me that Nick Bilton walked into this meeting totally blind with almost no recognition that he was coming in as a villain.

And then when challenged had like, I mean, the guy just seems to have become a yammering idiot yeah

I think that's right I mean you know if we can quote here from from some of the stuff in

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