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Theater Kid Absurdity: Fired ‘60 Minutes’ Producer Quotes Jefferson in EPIC Meltdown

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Theater Kid Absurdity: Fired ‘60 Minutes’ Producer Quotes Jefferson in EPIC Meltdown Screenshot via CBS/Snapstream Former CBS’s 60 Minutes managing producer Guy Campanile took to Facebook Tuesday with what he probably thought was a 570-word tour de force denouncing what he views as lying, partisan, and unprincipled new management, led by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton. In actuality, Campanile showed himself to be a petulant, tiresome theatre kid, banging his chest about the “tragic” “wreck” and “destruction of the most prestigious news program on American television” by “compromising...principles” with “unverifiable” filth that would make....Thomas Jefferson hang his head in shame? Our own Nicholas Spinnato’s 60 Minutes study, which showed political stories tilted left by a five-to-one ratio, was further evidence of the absurdity that Campanile shoveled for decades. Campanile began by saying he had “not publicly shared details of what I exp

First report: 60 Minutes' Bill Whitaker says Bari Weiss told him to call her out "if" she interferes — avclub.com, 6d