CBS declines to renew 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi's contract
Breaking NYT: CBS News declined to renew its contract with '60 Minutes' correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi — six months after her segment on torture in Salvadoran prisons was pulled off the air abruptly by Bari Weiss. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...
Grumpy Zeus110I don't watch CBS for this reason. They bury stories which illuminate the corruption of the administration. Bari Weiss is a fascist...I'm sorry...Bari Weiss is a motherfucking dangerous fascist.
670rv44"cancel culture" - those who complained about cancel culture now cancelling!
Aster Vérité30Dear Canadians, help me lobby to get all US networks pulled from mandatory carriage in Canadian basic cable packages... We must not be forced to subsidize fascist news outlets
The Opinionated Retiree and Nasty Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦30It's all good...60 Minutes is dead now, anyway. I suspect that Scott Pelly won't be far behind. No one will watch a show that wil become "60 Minutes of Trump Propaganda".
Saint Sherman - The Ultimate Patriot27Vote with your dollars people.
MadGreek 🧿2160 Minutes should go on cable away from FCC scrutiny. It's pretty much dead to me now.
cj49877🇺🇲🇮🇹🇦🇲😺🫘20Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace are rolling over in their graves.
beatts55.bsky.social1360 minutes used to be a staple of mine.
David Stone12Bari Weiss is a horrible person. For some reason, I often confuse her with Elise Stephanik.
Corey O'Neill11Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
Darbyfish9If you tank all the other TV stations, the only thing left is Fox. It is almost like a single state-sanctioned station for propaganda was the plan all along.
Bill's son, Bob9Another real journalist set free to do journalism again...!!
SweetMel9No need to ever watch CBS ever ever again. Or anything the Ellison’s own. Every journalist working for these people should quit if they have any integrity.
riversofsound.bsky.social8I'm not watching anything on CBS now that Colbert is off the air, but this confirms my need to avoid CBS.
CAbbott7Bari Weiss is sure adding up her karma quota quickly.. gonna age like trump… badly. 😳
gpyr56.bsky.social6Even more reason to just not watch anything on CBS. I will make one exception: Some time to make note of advertisers on the network that I can do without and no longer need to support. It's amazing how easy that is to do.
patrick617.bsky.social6CBS is competing hard alongside Fox to be MAGA’s Der Strumer
putawomanincharge.bsky.social6Block CBS IT FELT GREAT
badPuppy5Another network or streaming team should start a clone of 60minutes and hire the team. What should they call it? 3600 Seconds?
Sorry not sorry5I love Sharon! She’s too good for that POS program.
furtdude.bsky.social5Doesn't matter - ain't EVER tuning in to CBS, even if the Eagles are on.
manikowsky32.bsky.social4The significance of how Trump and the GOP are quickly quashing free speech, eliminating the sources of information and communication that keep me sane, hit me like a ton of bricks. “News” shows like CNN are just gab fests. Humor like that of Colbert is gone. People are afraid to speak out.
justicejunkie52.bsky.social4CBS is now indeed See BS now. It once was a decent channel; now just state tv, Russian style imho
drjruberti.bsky.social4Fascism can’t handle the truth
Dave Wenning3Sounds like the Ministry of Truth didn't approve of her.
Akiro3182Well of course they did. We shouldnt be watching CBS at all. No more. Hopefully she ends up on the side of the independents resisiting Nazis.
Grumpy Gram2When 2/3rds of the population moves to independent journalism, the remaining 1/3rd will not be sufficient to support legacy media. A financial reckoning is coming.
chocolatefire.bsky.social2As if we didn’t already see the pink slip on the wall months ago.
Duff62This is good news! MS Alfonso has been liberated - good for her!
Saint Helena Island Info2"This is CBS. We can't have people revealing the truth."
Chaosaurus Bex2I genuinely don’t understand the hype around Weiss. She just seems so average and blah.
Resistor 🏜️🏳️🌈 🤷♂️🌇🔵2All of US corporate media will eventually become state propaganda tools for the regime. Watch/read l/support independent writers and news sites. They are our last hope of knowing the truth. #trumpsucks #resist #anti-fascism
Deb2They should just cancel 60 minutes altogether. A once venerable news show that was not afraid to hold truth to power. Mike Wallace must be turning over in his grave.
🌀Heidi2God forbid anybody in this country knows the truth. They think they can bury the truth. They think they can hide their bigotry and racism. Might be able to hide it in this country, but everyone else in the world will know what the truth is
CindyLooHoo2Time for all these journalists/reporters to start their won independent network cc @colbertlateshow.bsky.social
nonrev2We are about to see what a "news" network becomes when its run by oligarchs Can't have a straight forward exposay and investigative team, like 60 minutes, gumming up the works of the 1%. Media ownership is becoming increasing concentrated among billionaires Never watch CBS again
Scott MacFarlane is leaving CBS. Like Anderson Cooper, he's leaving because of Bari Weiss. MacFarlane said he was "appalled and disheartened" when Tony Dokoupil, on CBS Evening News, noted the five-year anniversary of the Jan.6 insurrection with a "both-sides" treatment. Bari Weiss is a failure.
🌮 Alacrity's Ghost61McFarlane split months ago- he's joined the Midas network & doing his own stuff that has been picked up by a dozen radio stations, KNX in LA being the biggest. Weiss is simply doing what she was hired to do- eliminate anything that runs counter to trump ideology 🤷
karlcorey.bsky.social37She isn’t a failure. She is doing exactly what the Ellisons put her in place to do. That is to turn CBS news into another right wing propaganda outlet!
Heidrun12He left a while ago.
atiraslight.bsky.social9Don't need to see 'both sides' anymore. I saw the side I don't want to be on Jan. 6th.
Resistateveryturn6Thought he left weeks ago
Election_Every5He left #CBS on March 9th and joined @meidastouch.com the same week. I am not sure why it is being reported now. He nearly has 2 million followers at @macfarlanenews.bsky.social
Dawn 🇮🇹 ✌🏻🐈⬛🐈💙 🍷fly 🦅 fly 💚5Bari Weiss is a good soldier and is doing what she was hired to do.
CarrieT 🗽 ⚖️ 🇺🇸 🐶 📚 🛩 🌏 🐘 🗳 ⛩️ 😆 🎶 🪙 🤷♀️5He left a couple of months ago. He is on Meidas now. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
JohnDark5no, she's very successful -- at being the Leni Riefenstahl of the curent fascist regime
JustSayin4THERE IS JUST ONE SIDE - THE TRUTH - TRUMP INCITED A DEADLY INSURRECTION AND PAID HIS MAGOTS TO SHOW UP!!!
Bill Mauldin4Not unlike the genius that introduced the world to New Coke in the 80s. 😂🤣
Gmayogi3Wonder what Tony and Katy talk about over dinner?????🤬🤬🤬
L D Mansker, PhD (TulsaGal)3Not quite a failure, more like a worshipper - an acolyte of the cult of Trump.
Slartibartfast3Bari Weiss has been a yuuge success at what she was hired to do, which is destroy every bit of real journalism and entertainment at CBS and replace it with Trumpist propaganda. All we can do now is boycott and hope that kills it completely, but its billionaire owners will probably run it at a loss.
orangedeflector2That’s the C BS news
George Kaplan2The two sides are good and evil. Fuck Bari Weiss
I believe she's doing exactly what she was employed to do. Still, hopefully the fallout in revenue will see her sacked anyway
DwightLymanMoody (he/him)2Bari Weiss is not a failure. She was brought in to turn CBS News into a hollowed out shell that spews MAGA lies. It's OK if the ratings are terrible, her bosses don't care about that.
Lyssa, goddess of rage.2Nothing stopping Tony from walking out the door.
Rob Evans2I want Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss up on treason charges who the hell gave him his money and why the fuck is Trump so desperate for this cunt to expand his ownership of media companies fuck you pricks
El Intrepido rides again2Bari Weiss is a NAZI, not a failure !!
Ringo Bunnyman2FYI, Scott left CBS way back in March.
Just_jammin22There is no both sides. We saw an insurrection. We saw them injure and kill police officers. We saw them destroy government property.
"This was...a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom....Today, CBS management is...choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it."
Jeffrey Brown 16I understand that they have already hired her replacement:
wantthetruth.bsky.social13CBS becoming the new FAKE FOX.
Occams Razor12When Trump is gone and a relative 'normality' returns I hope these fuckers go bankrupt because of these subservient decisions.
TRG10Bari Weiss and her boy toy Tony DoucheKoupil need to go…..
strangeronafarm.bsky.social10Just confirms my choice to boycott CBS completely. No sports, no news, no programs. Done.
happycamper24.bsky.social10CBS is nothing more than a mouth piece for that Nazi regime.
MistressofEyeRolls7You know, in these times, it seems INCREDIBLY easy for all of these talented people to just get together and form a new form of media, outside influence by the criminal MAGosphere.
Zigzaggreen🇨🇦6The pedophiles are running the show
clanliljegren.bsky.social6Where I live CBS is owned by Sinclair Broadcasting, an ultra-right-wing broadcasting organization. They are consistently conservative, pro-Trump bent and has required local stations to run right-wing commentary segments. I only watched Steven Colbert. Now I will not watch CBS ever again.
WeirdPrimate6If CBS wants to destroy themselves…let them. It’s easier than ever to turn your attention to something better. They only make money from your attention less attention means less money.
3dlanyard.bsky.social4BARI WEISS belongs in prison.
saywhat25.bsky.social3She's a great journalist. She'll land very smoothly.
cartojim.bsky.social2If you have to interview both sides before you broadcast a story you are giving one side a veto over that story. All they have to do is refuse to be interviewed. And the story cannot be broadcast.
older crone2I'm never watching CBS again.
Aunt Patty2Fucking cancel CBS if you haven't already.
KCMcC🇺🇸🇸🇪💙🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️2She’ll be fine - better off, in fact Fuck CBS
60 Minutes' Sharyn Alfonsi pens a goodbye note slamming Bari Weiss' actions against her "as a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting." Read the rest:
Tim Karr36News of Alfonsi's "firing" comes on the day of the News Emmys, celebrated in NYC tonight. CBS News is among nominees, though they were given fewer nods than ABC, PBS & NBC newsrooms. Worth seeing whether they take home any accolades or are snubbed as retribution for Weiss' ham-fisted reign.
Dr. Shrimp Puerto Rico, PH.D8I will never watch @cbsnews.com again. No integrity and no credibility. It's just another infotainment network now.
Patrick Matthews6Startling that CBS is valuing Bari Fucking Weiss over a brand as storied as 60 Minutes
Stacia Lentz 4I’ve always found Alfonsi’s pieces very well done. She is an excellent journalist. Of course, maga has to trash everything that is good.
theelusiveog.bsky.social3Weiss is a fascist propagandist, imho, no other way to see it
Greenwood Hi-Fi3PBS is the last bastion of journalistic integrity in America.
twistedphilosopher.bsky.social3I respect the letter, but no one watches that tripe anymore anyway. They aren't fooling anyone. Weiss has turned CBS into the new Newsmax. It's not out of incompetence, its out of design. Problem for them is, no one watches their trash anymore and thats why independent media is blowing up.
Trout Fisher2Bari Weiss will go down as the person who single-handedly destroyed 60 Minutes.
Phil S.2My entire extended family has given up on CBS and will not tune in to any of their programming. I hope that Sharon lands on her feet at an outlet that will use her talents.
crazyworldwelivein.bsky.social2I look forward to 60 Minutes doing segments on how anti vax homeschooled weirdos for Trump are oppressed and censored.
Don Moynihan2is there a source for this?
“Ms. Alfonsi remains employed at CBS, but with no contract in place, she said she had no expectation of returning to “60 Minutes.” “I’m not resigning,” she said. “If they want me gone because I did my job, they’ll have to fire me.’” — www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...
US Asunder18Yes, this IS the way! No resigning out of moral disgust. Make them fire you and then sue for Wrongful Dismissal. Money is all they understand.
BK13My objection to this article is they describe Bari Weiss as an "opinion journalist" which is an insult to actual opinion writers
Stevis will try to keep people safe6The Price is Right is the most sober and trustworthy show remaining on CBS.
Grumpy Zeus2Y'all realize we have the power to essentially destroy CBS and fuck up Bari Weiss' career: Don't watch the channel. I mean NEVER. Wouldn't it be fun to absolutely fuck up @cbsnews.com !!! Also, you can go here and target their advertisers. stopmediabiasnow.com/cbs-advertis...
scoop from Michael Grynbaum: Sharyn Alfonsi, who has lost her deal with CBS News, says that "the wall has come down" at "60 Minutes" between "editorial independence and corporate interests." Full interview here: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...
happy-daze1.bsky.social3Our right wing tech oligarch overlords have spoken. You will listen and obey. You will believe what they tell you. Or else. Vote like our democracy depends on it. Because it does.
AMPTsuper2Additional context from Dan Rather: @thedanrather.bsky.social steady.substack.com/p/one-courag... 12/22/2025
hughtube.bsky.social2Sooo, that's one media outlet that's gone... Are there already new ones being founded? Because you free press has died.
Bari Weiss gets her revenge against Sharyn Alfonsi, the brave (and now former) "60 Minutes" correspondent who went public after Weiss pulled her report on the El Salvadoran torture prison. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...
bobhudsonvalley.bsky.social4Sharyn Alfonsi maybe leaving 60 Minutes but she leaves with her journalistic and personal integrity , honor and reputation intact. Bari Weiss on the other hand has been revealed as an incompetent manager who is reliant on her fellow pro Zionist , MAGA overlord Ellison family.
futbolsound3When bravery in news is punished, and sycophancy rewarded, it only serves to reinforce the decline of a once serious news organization. Alfonsi joins Cooper on the out. Good for them.
