Tim Miller

They couldn't do what they had done traditionally, which is promote the person internally that had been the best story producer.

That's how 60 Minutes worked.

They would promote from within.

They'd find somebody that understood the program and that had demonstrated skill and leadership at shepherding various stories to the TV.

Instead, she has to bring in some outside guy.

And it's like, why?

Well, it's for this.

So she doesn't have to send an email to somebody she doesn't know saying, hey, can you make sure the story reflects the lie that the president told that Renee Good was aiming her car at the officer when all video shows that she was doing the opposite.

Now she can just communicate that to Nick Bilton and have him try to do it.

So we'll see how it continues to go.

Look, everyone needs to do what's right for them.

I understand the reason

Leslie Stahl and Bill Whitaker said that they want to stay.

I think that they probably are rightly worried that had they quit, it's over.

Like 60 Minutes is basically dead.

And maybe by having them around, you can kind of shepherd this thing and muddle through into something different in the future.

But it seems to me like the writing's on the wall.

It takes us to the L.A.

mayor's race, with all due respect to the free press.

Matt Iglesias shared this screenshot this morning of their coverage of that race.