One reason not mentioned – they get paid pretty well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is off USA Today so not a long article.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lesley Stahl<\/a>, Bill Whitaker<\/a> and Jon Wertheim confirmed they will remain on the CBS program in a memo shared with staff and obtained by USA TODAY on Friday, June 5. “We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay,” the trio said, adding that they “feared that our returning might be construed as an endorsement of the existing power structure.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “That is simply, categorically not the case,” the correspondents continued. “Here’s why we are staying: We don’t want to see ’60 Minutes’ die.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The remarks come after Pelley, 68, was fired from the Emmy-winning show earlier this week after more than two decades on the air. Pelley’s termination stemmed from an internal dispute with CBS leadership, USA TODAY learned Tuesday, June 2, which left him without severance or other benefits effective immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During a heated staff meeting, Pelley accused CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss<\/a> of “murdering” the news institution<\/a>, according to a recording obtained by The New York Times<\/a> and reported Monday, June 1. Tensions also flared with new “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One reason not mentioned – they get paid pretty well. This is off USA Today so not a long article. Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim confirmed they will remain on the CBS program in a memo shared with staff and obtained by USA TODAY on Friday, June 5. “We have had a hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-politics","category-people","category-silly-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16456,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16454\/revisions\/16456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}