Morley Safer of 60 Minutes was my father. He would be disgusted by what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS Is doing to CBS | Sarah Safer
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Sarah Safer, daughter of late 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer, published a sharp critique of CBS's direction under Bari Weiss, arguing her father would be appalled by the network's current trajectory. Safer, who grew up watching her father build his career over 46 years at the program, contends that CBS is abandoning the investigative journalism standards Morley Safer embodied. She calls on journalists at the network to resist what she sees as a fundamental betrayal of the institution's mission. The piece frames Weiss's leadership as marking the effective end of 60 Minutes as a serious news program, a shift that Safer suggests has disturbed audiences who valued the show's legacy.
My father joined the program when I was eight months old and retired 46 years later. He would be encouraging journalists at CBS to speak out
The end of the 60 Minutes broadcast as we know it has sickened millions of longtime viewers, colleagues, and all of us who are offended and threatened by our current administration and its cronies’ assaults on the first amendment. The news of Scott Pelley’s firing hits particularly hard. He spoke of “risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast”.
Having literally grown up with that broadcast, my father, Morley Safer, joined the program when I was eight months old and retired 46 years later, I am acutely aware of the costs of that devotion. 60 Minutes, particularly in its early days, demanded commitments of time and travel that were keenly felt at home.
Sarah Safer is the daughter of Morley Safer, who was a 60 Minutes correspondent for 46 years
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