Richard Osman
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, that's the thing.
David Ellison buys her company for a lot of money and then sets her in charge of CBS News and 60 Minutes.
So the situation you have is, as you say, someone who is an iconoclast versus a very traditional, very long-standing, fairly liberal...
And this incredible franchise, which is 60 Minutes, which has been going forever and ever and ever.
And a lot of the correspondents are in their 70s and 80s and have been there forever.
And suddenly she's a new broom sweeping through it.
Now, CBS News, which she's in charge of, ratings are down and down and down.
And now we have a situation with 60 Minutes, which is the absolute jewel in the crown.
And it should be said, profitable.
You know, good ratings, profitable.
Vice bought in a new kind of chief editor called Nick Bilton, who is not particularly from a news background.
He used to write for Vanity Fair as a screenwriter, all sorts of things like that.
So, you know, he's from that world.
And they had a meeting last week where he came in for the first time.
And a lot of the big correspondents have left already.
Anderson Cooper, who was the sort of probably the biggest dog of all at 60 Minutes.
He has left.
So Nick Bilton comes in, has his first meeting with his team to try and say, look, this is who I am.
This is where I want 60 Minutes to go.