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The big story this week in media is that 60 Minutes correspondent Scott P is out
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at CBS. Pelly's firing came after he accused CBS News chief Barry Weiss of murdering 60 Minutes. New EP Nick Bilton
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sent P a letter on Tuesday saying he'd been terminated for cause effective immediately. I don't know Barry Weiss. I
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do know Nick Bilton. You are not qualified compared to these people. I wouldn't be qualified to run this,
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right? Like the fact that they think they can give instructions to these people, I wouldn't have the arrogance to
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think I was better than them. The excuse they're using is that, well, we're going
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to we're going to fix it before it goes downhill. We're going to bomb the
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village to save the village. This is nonsense on every level. >> They've decided to perform open heart
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surgery on the healthiest person in the franchise. When you're in an industry
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that's in structural decline and you have a product that's up 9% yearonear,
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you don't [ __ ] with it. I've got an idea and I'm literally going to text Ted
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Sarandos. I think there's an enormous opportunity. If I were Ted Sarandos, I
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would call Scott P and Anderson Cooper and say, "I'm going to pay each of you
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$10 million. You hire whoever the [ __ ] you want, including executive producer,
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and Netflix is going to put out something called The Hour, and it's going to be every week."
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>> I love it. The hour. How about 59 minutes?