Longtime correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi has been abruptly fired from CBS's 60 Minutes as part of a sweeping staff purge. On The Megyn Kelly Show, host Megyn Kelly detailed the chaotic fallout of the decision, recounting how she pressed Bari Weiss on the sudden terminations. Kelly repeatedly asked Weiss, "Why fire Sharyn Alfonsi?" only to be met with a stonewalling "'I'm not answering that question.'"
While Megyn Kelly condemned the network's management, arguing that the "handling of it has been very poor," she made sure to distance herself from Sharyn Alfonsi's journalistic record. Kelly reminded her audience that Alfonsi was "the one who was giggling about the crackdown on free speech in Germany, like the arrest of people for their opinions."
The unceremonious purge has also claimed other high-profile figures, including correspondent Cecilia Vega. With CBS executives refusing to explain the sudden shift, the fallout from the network's internal civil war is bound to keep dominating media industry chatter in the weeks ahead.