Kroft Blasts Sixty Minutes: 'Snake Pit' of Backstabbing

0:00It's April 23rd. Welcome in. This is Entertainment and celebrity news today, where the headlines shine, powered by AI. Steve Croft, the 80-year-old veteran journalist who spent 30 years on 60 minutes, just ripped his old show to shreds. He called it a snake pit full of backstabbing with zero civility, straight up saying he hated the job and wouldn't touch it again. The grind was brutal. He explained on Bill O'Reilly's podcast. 24 hours a day of jetting around, writing scripts, editing footage, and endless. Scraining's that left no room to breathe. Dan Rather had warned him early on about the newsroom. Big cats ready to claw rivals and leave them limping for months, turning colleagues into jealous. Enemies the moment you got picked for the team. Croft painted a paranoid vibe where folks washed their backs for the shiv, and even basic friendliness meant checking your wallet for hidden motives. These days, after leaving in 2019, he sees fear gripping the place amid overhaul talks from new CBS news boss, Barry Weiss job worries, country chaos, and first amendment threats all mixing into a tense storm.