This is per The Guardian, which obtained a private Facebook post attributed to Campanile detailing his exit. Campanile writes that he wanted to wait to speak out because emotions were still raw for a while, but now is “prepared to talk about it.” Citing Vega and Pelley as well as other fired staff members like Tanya Simon and Sharyn Alfonsi, Campanile said that the fired employees “refused to be accomplices in the destruction of the most prestigious news program on American television.”
“To be clear: we were told to leave because we insisted on doing our jobs. What has happened recently at 60 Minutes – where I believe editorial independence has become a casualty of corporate priorities and ideological intrusion – was tragic. But it was part of an inevitable progression in the cascade of afflictions that have devalued our most trusted sources of news,” he continues. “To be clear: we were told to leave because we insisted on doing our jobs. What has happened recently at 60 Minutes – where I believe editorial independence has become a casualty of corporate priorities and ideological intrusion – was tragic. But it was part of an inevitable progression in the cascade of afflictions that have devalued our most trusted sources of news”
Though he doesn’t seem to name Bari Weiss specifically in the post (The Guardian didn’t share screenshots, just in-article text) there’s one part that’s hard not to interpret as a dig at the CBS News editor-in-chief: “Making matters worse is the cadre of self-described influencers and online opinionists who market themselves as ‘journalists’. Some have been given control of our most precious reporting institutions – including CBS News.” Anyway, 60 Minutes returns with some new camera lenses this Sunday night.
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