Bari Weiss Was 'Furious' and 'Blindsided' by Anderson Cooper's 60 Minutes Swan Song: Report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

May 22nd, 2026, 1:20 pm


CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss was “furious” and felt “blindsided” by Anderson Cooper’s remarks during his final 60 Minutes episode, according to a report by Oliver Darcy at Status. Weiss’s tenure at CBS News since she was tapped for the role by CEO David Ellison, the CEO of parent company Paramount Skydance, has been described by many media observers as rocky, and many of the critical headlines connect to the turmoil at 60 Minutes.

Weiss had written for The New York Times for years before launching The Free Press, but had no broadcast journalism experience. The issues at 60 Minutes have included the departure of several longtime top staffers and Weiss’s decision to delay airing a segment on the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), a notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration sent some undocumented immigrants in contravention of court orders.

Cooper was reportedly on Weiss’s short list for the next anchor to helm CBS Evening News, but he not only turned her down for the anchor spot, he declined an offer to renew his contract with 60 Minutes. Weiss turned to Tony Dokoupil to anchor Evening News instead; his few months in the anchor chair have been plagued with tech problems, visa problems, accusations Weiss is putting a heavy thumb on the scale of the show’s journalism to satisfy Ellison, and numerous current and former CBS staffers dissing him and the show anonymously to reporters.

When Cooper wrapped up his final 60 Minutes episode Sunday, it was the culmination of nearly two decades as a correspondent at the television news magazine. During that time, Cooper won four Emmys and numerous other accolades for his reporting. When his exit was announced, Darcy quoted an industry observer source as calling his pending departure “another black eye for Bari.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/bari-weiss-was-furious-and-blindsided-by-anderson-coopers-60-minutes-swan-song-report/

[agingdem]

1. Weiss, a Trump ass-kissing bully is

pissed because a respected journalist called her out for being a Trump ass-kissing bully...HAHAHA!!!

[calimary]

10. Well? Sure sounds like that description fits her.

To a “T”.

Like Trump.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. This is like the Dark Ages - expertise, knowledge, credibility are driven underground

in many professions: science, lawyering, journalism.

[groundloop]

4. THIS is what I hate most about 'murica at the moment.

It's cool to be stupid while people with actual education and expertise are ridiculed.

[Karasu]

5. It's been that way for a LONG time.

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Isaac Asimov said this back in 1980. It’s only gotten worse since then.

There’s a reason so many of the most educated Americans (notably including professors of fascism) are leaving.

[questionseverything]

3. Andersen is rich maybe he could cobble some money together to create an actual news outlet!

[mdbl]

6. Don't even care about Weiss or CBS

Both are bad eggs now. Before it was just Weiss. I won't watch anything CBS or Paramount.

[bmichaelh]

7. John Oliver

She is not qualified for that position.

She was a former opinion writer of NY Times.

She started a news organization with the Orwellian title "The Free Press"

John Oliver pointed out that organization's errors.

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I would not be surprised if the WB Discovery purchase goes through, John Oliver and Anderson Cooper might be cancelled.

Also, she wanted Anderson Cooper to be next anchor of CBS News and he refused.

[paleotn]

8. Fuck off, Bari.

Evil wench.

[City Lights]

9. Awwww! Poor Bari!

[Upthevibe]

11. BumRushDaShow............

Thanks for the post........F Bari Weiss!

[BigmanPigman]

12. She'll play the victim...as usual.

The only thing she has experience with is constantly playing the poor, little victim of the mean world as she bitches and complains that she is "woke". She and Bill Maher can fuck off.

[Figarosmom]

13. From the article, what made her furious and felt blindsided

"I hope 60 Minutes remains 60 Minutes,” said Cooper. “There’s very few things that have been around for as long as 60 Minutes has and maintain the quality that it has. Things can always evolve and change, and I think that’s awesome, and things should evolve and change. But I hope the core of what 60 Minutes is always remains.”

[Shipwack]

18. That's it? Rather mild, IMHO. nt

[NBachers]

14. I have an image of her jetting around her office propelled by a diarrhea afterburner.

[eppur_se_muova]

15. Horrible, incompetent boss "blindsided" that disgruntled employees can choose to leave whenever they decide to. nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. Aww the poor dear

Why don't those news commentators know their place?

[Cha]

17. Good, keep the "blindsiding" on Weiss.

Good on Anderson Cooper! Not having a TV for decades, I didn't know he worked at CNN and C BS' 60 Minutes.

TY, BRDS

[Roy Rolling]

19. A Class Act

Thank you, Anderson.

CBS has lost two of the best talents they have.