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Embattled CBS leader Bari Weiss downplays concerns about weak 60 Minutes ratings

CBS News editor-in-chief sidesteps viewership concerns and says flagship show doing ‘tremendously well’ CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, has spoken publicly for the first time about the ratings challenges the network has experienced under her year-long tenure, sidestepping concerns about diminished viewership at the Sunday show 60 Minutes by saying it was not her top priority. “I could never build anything if I were focused on the precise number of people that happen to tune in to the second feature on 60 Minutes on a given Sunday,” she said at an industry conference on Wednesday organized by the tech publication the Information. The news organization did not offer press credentials. Continue reading...

The Guardian · Oct 28