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| Steve Kroft rips ‘60 Minutes' as cutthroat, toxic workplace: ‘I hated it' |
| 2026-04-05 |
| [NYP] A veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent ripped the famed CBS programming as a "snake pit" plagued by "no civility." Steve Kroft, who spent 30 years as one of the mainstay journalists on "60 Minutes," told podcaster Bill O’Reilly that if he were offered the chance to do it again, he would respond: "No, I probably wouldn’t do it again...I hated it." The 80-year-old former correspondent described the prestigious newsmagazine not as a dream job, but as a brutal grind and psychological battlefield that wore him down over time. Kroft said the job was a relentless, all-consuming slog — "24 hours a day" — with constant travel, writing, editing and screenings that never seemed to stop. Many jobs and assignments are like that, that's why it's called 'work.' "You may get a couple hours... then getting on jets... coming back and spending three or four days writing... then starting it all over again," Kroft told O’Reilly’s "We’ll Do It Live" podcast on Thursday. Before joining 60 Minutes, Kroft said he got a stark warning from Dan Rather about the show’s cutthroat culture — recalling that Rather told him the newsroom was filled with "big cats" who could take you down with a single swipe, leaving you "limping for six months." Kroft said the warning proved accurate once he arrived. The survival instinct kicked in. So he joined in and became part of the problem. "There was no civility at 60 Minutes," Kroft told O’Reilly, describing a workplace where basic decency was absent and suspicion was constant. "If there was civility... you better check your wallet," he added, suggesting even friendliness came with ulterior motives. Highly informative. No indication he'll be sending back any of his pay cheques. Related: Steve Kroft 10/27/2015 The FBI & Hillary's e-mails: A Lois Lerner precedent ? Steve Kroft 10/13/2015 Another stupid statement from Obama about Syria and Russia Steve Kroft 10/13/2015 A THIRD INTIFADA? The story behind last night's 60 Minutes interview. |
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