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‘60 Minutes’ Legend Reveals Shocking Truth About News Show
April 6, 2026
The Daily Beast
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Gary Gershoff / WireImageAn award-winning former reporter for 60 Minutes has called the flagship CBS show a toxic “snake pit” where you could be stabbed in the back at any minute. Steve Kroft, 80, who spent 30 years working on 60 Minutes before leaving in 2019, also said he does not recognize the 2026 incarnation of the show under CBS’s new MAGA-curious regime.Kroft, who won three Peabody Awards for his investigative work on 60 Minutes, made his shock revelations about the TV news institution on Bill O’Reilly’s We’ll Do It Live podcast.Read more at The Daily Beast.

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