‘60 Minutes’ Veteran Exits With Shot at CBS Boss | The producer admitted his departure is “overshadowed” by the turmoil under Bari Weiss.

>A veteran 60 Minutes producer announced he has left the CBS News show with a parting shot at the chaos surrounding the network’s boss, Bari Weiss.

>Henry Schuster, who had been at 60 Minutes since 2007, confirmed his departure from the long-running news magazine on LinkedIn, saying he had been “thinking about leaving for a while.”

>Schuster added that he decided to leave when the opportunity “presented itself in February,” suggesting he accepted a buyout.

>While Schuster is leaving of his own accord, his post acknowledged that his departure has been “overshadowed by the forced departures of so many colleagues and friends” at 60 Minutes during Weiss’s disastrous tenure.

>The Free Press founder had no previous experience in broadcast television news before she was parachuted into the editor-in-chief role at the now Trump-friendly network by CBS’s new owner, David Ellison.

>Since then, Weiss has overseen numerous scandals, watched ratings slide across the network, and caused major friction in her attempt to overhaul its flagship 60 Minutes program, which has traditionally enjoyed editorial independence from the rest of CBS News.