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Battle lines drawn at CBS as 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl ponders future after losing Israel interview to fellow journalist

The Independent·Brendan Rascius·20 days ago
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60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl was blindsided when CBS News Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss swooped in and assigned a high-profile interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to another journalist, according to a new report. The decision has reportedly led Stahl to reassess her future at the network and further exacerbated already fraught relations between the newsroom and Weiss, whose overhaul of CBS News has courted controversy for months . Stahl, an 84-year-old veteran correspondent at the storied news magazine broadcast, had been pursuing an on-camera sit-down with Netanyahu, a central figure in the ongoing Iran war , Status reported. But, she was “upstaged” by Weiss, who personally booked the Israeli prime minister and “handed” the interview to Major Garrett, the outlet’s chief Washington correspondent, who is not a 60 Minutes correspondent , five people familiar with the matter told the outlet.…

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