Cecilia Vega, Fired From  ‘60 Minutes,’ Says She Fears ‘For The Future of the Legendary Broadcast’

By Brian Steinberg

Brian Steinberg

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Cecilia Vega, one of the “60 Minutes” correspondents ousted in Thursday’s reorganization of the CBS News magazine, says she’s worried about the future of the program and where it may be headed under the management installed by parent company Paramount Skydance.

“I have the utmost respect and admiration for my colleagues at ’60 Minutes’ and the stories that air every Sunday. But I very much fear what comes next for and the future of the legendary broadcast,” Vega said in a statement. “In recent months, my producing teams and I have experienced efforts to insert political bias into our stories.  Reporting teams have held back on submitting story pitches about important news topics out of fear of the internal repercussions. Let’s call this what it is: censorship, both imposed and self-driven.  It is dangerous for the show and dangerous for democracy.”

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