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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\n_This story originally appeared on Them._\n\nAmid Paramount Skydance’s pending purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper reportedly isn’t happy at the prospect of being in a newsroom led by controversial CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.\n\nCooper, who is CNN’s most well-known host, has apparently told colleagues that he doesn’t want to work for Weiss, per the New York Times. Cooper left 60 Minutes, which is under Weiss’s direction, in May after 20 years with the program. At the time of his departure, Cooper told the Associated Press that working for _60 Minutes_ had been “one of the great honors of my career.”\n\nHe continued, “I got to tell amazing stories, and work with some of the best producers, editors and camera crew in the business. For nearly 20 years, I’ve been able to balance my jobs and CNN and CBS, but I have little kids now and I want to spend as much time with them as possible, while they still want to spend time with me.”\n\nPer the Associated Press, Cooper had no comment as to whether Weiss’s tenure at CBS, and at _60 Minutes_ , weighed on his decision to leave the prestigious television program. However, Status, a site led by former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy published a report claiming Cooper’s decision was driven by the network’s direction under Weiss.\n\nWeiss’s tenure at CBS News began in October and quickly courted controversy. Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes story about abuses at an El Salvador detention center where Trump had been sending Venezuelan migrants just a day and a half before it was set to air. She had pushed _60 Minutes_ to receive on-air comment from Stephen Miller, the white nationalist who serves as president Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy.\n\nSharyn Alfonsi, the _60 Minutes_ correspondent who reported the story, called the move an “not an editorial decision” but a “political” one in an email sent to colleagues, per NPR.\n\n“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO,” Alfonsi continued in the email. “If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”\n\nBoth Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega were forced out of _60 Minutes_ in May. Days later, Scott Pelley, who worked there since 2004, was also let go after he accused Weiss of “murdering _60 Minutes_ ” in a staff meeting. “She does not love this place,” Pelley said, per the New York Times. “She was brought in to kill it, and she's been doing exactly that.”\n\nWeiss made a name for herself in the news world through various _New York Times_ pieces slamming “cancel culture” and through the founding of the _Free Press_ , an outlet that has published an array of “gender critical” voices, including J.K. Rowling. The _Free Press_ has repeatedly published misinformation about transgender people, including one piece — later found to have many fabrications — that alleged the mother of a trans child had no say in her child being prescribed puberty blockers.\n\nThough Cooper has not made public comments about Weiss, he did use his final moments on _60 Minutes_ to warn against the program’s changing identity.\n\n“There’s very few things that have been around for as long as _60 Minutes_ has, and maintain the quality that it has,” Cooper said. “Things can always evolve and change, I think that’s awesome, and things should evolve and change, but I hope the core of what _60 Minutes_ is always remains.”\n\nHe continued, “The trust it has with viewers is critical to the success of _60 Minutes_.”\n\n\n",
  "title": "Count Anderson Cooper among the journalists who don’t wanna work with Bari Weiss"
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