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Legendary ’60 Minutes’ Correspondent Steve Kroft Says He ‘Hated’ Working on The Show: ‘It’s Just 24 Hours a Day’

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Legendary ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Steve Kroft Says He ‘Hated’ Working on The Show: ‘It’s Just 24 Hours a Day’
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Legendary ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Steve Kroft Says He ‘Hated’ Working on The Show: ‘It’s Just 24 Hours a Day’
Legendary newsman Steve Kroft says he 'hated' his time on '60 Minutes.'
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Chrono_Convoy Apr 5, 2026 +310
But But the show is called 60 minutes
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Boomerang503 Apr 5, 2026 +42
1,440 Minutes
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ProsaicPugilist Apr 5, 2026 +32
525,600 minutes
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franchissimo Apr 5, 2026 +25
How do you measure, measure a year?
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NectarineCheap1541 Apr 5, 2026 +11
In daylights? In sunsets?
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MaineSoxGuy93 Apr 5, 2026 +6
In midnights? In cupsss of coffee?
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majorjoe23 Apr 5, 2026 +27
“it took 60 minutes to watch, i assumed it would take 60 minutes to make!”
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Chrono_Convoy Apr 5, 2026 +6
It’s funny cause I actually work in the film industry and work on 60 minutes
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ArchdruidHalsin Apr 5, 2026 +5
But the price is on the can, though
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Billy_Ektorp Apr 5, 2026 +60
From the article: «Longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft recently told Bill O’Reilly on his “We’ll Do It Live!” podcast that he “hated” his time on the CBS news show.» Going on a Bill O’Reilly podcast is certainly a choice. Other guests on the same podcast series include Senator Lindsey Graham and Rob Schneider. «The show is produced by Red Seat Ventures, the digital content production studio acquired by Fox Corporation last year.»: https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65742352/ «The company also works with Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson, two other former Fox News Channel personalities who have gone on to launch their own programming (…)»: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/bill-oreilly-interview-podcast-well-do-it-live-launch-1236682046/
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Jean-Paul_Sartre Apr 5, 2026 +60
Honestly not a Bill O’Reilly fan but him naming his podcast after his Inside Edition meltdown is amusing…
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contactdeparture Apr 5, 2026 +20
That is hilarious. “What does that mean we’ll play it out. F*** it we’re doing it live.” I mean- how does he not know what that means?!
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[deleted] Apr 5, 2026 +21
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EBMille4 Apr 5, 2026 +11
Whenever something goes wrong in our household and we have to start over, one of us yells “f*** it, we’ll do it live!” And start again
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AidanAmerica Apr 5, 2026 +4
Could it be a form of Google-bombing? As in using the most searched term related to him as the name of his podcast so you search for one and find the other
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GMGarry_Chess 2 days ago +1
I thoight the same thing. Good on him for capitalizing on that
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RedditFan3510 Apr 5, 2026 +27
I'm sorry I just can't imagine Anderson Cooper and Lesley Stahl secretly plotting against him to try and sabotage him.
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BeefInGR Apr 5, 2026 +17
I mean, Anderson Cooper got his start in television reporting for Channel 1. He had to make the news interesting for middle and high school kids at 8 am on a Tuesday. If he could do that (and I'm old enough to remember that he did), he can do anything.
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BadmiralHarryKim Apr 5, 2026 +4
Wasn't he also, "The Mole?"
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NastyMothaFucka 6 days ago +2
I don’t see too many people anymore remembering Channel 1. Goddamn, I love we got to be a part of that. Anderson Cooper’s rise for anyone that grew up with Channel 1 was astonishing!
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NastyMothaFucka Apr 5, 2026 +66
Anyone think this guy might have gotten a check to be the start of dismantling 60 Minutes now that we have the owners of it we do? Start trickling down that it’s a bad place and then other shit trickles out and then poof no more 60 minutes?
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Strong-Rise6221 Apr 5, 2026 +10
Yes this is exactly what I think. The Billionaire wagons are circling.
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spasske Apr 5, 2026 +5
I don’t think Kroft needs a check nor needs to be a part of dismantling *60 Minutes*. Bari Weiss is destroying it without any help.
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NastyMothaFucka 6 days ago +1
Sure, I think we all know that. This might be one of her first “pushing the pawn forward” moves is all I’m saying. In this day and age this is how things get disrupted and dismantled is all I’m saying. He can come out with this and set the dominoes up to get the idiots Riled up and ready for the next thing that they catch or make up someone else doing. It just smells fishy is all I’m saying, and I’m no conspiracy theorist, I assure you. I’m just noticing how they tear journalism and journalists apart in the “fake news” era. You could be right, might not be anything, and I’ll take my tinfoil hat off but I felt something like this would be the start of tearing apart the greatest television news magazine that’s ever existed. I’ll be very sad when that happens.
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SpaceCampDropOut Apr 5, 2026 +47
Exactly what else would he rather be doing? This for decades was considered one of the greatest jobs in tv journalism.
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taylo7 Apr 5, 2026 +30
I worked my way to the top of my career field, looked around and realized I hated my life and almost everyone from said career field. Sometimes it takes time to realize what you thought was the perfect fit for you was actually your pot of slow boiled water.
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OneBillPhil Apr 5, 2026 +12
Sometimes you get into something, you don’t love it but you got bills to pay. He might have hated the job but it probably gave a lifestyle he liked. 
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Bulky-Bid-8508 Apr 5, 2026 +7
Do you prefer to do nothing but work all the time?
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gaddnyc Apr 5, 2026 +95
30 seasons, um, but I hated it, what kind of nonsense is this?
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robinhoodoftheworld Apr 5, 2026 +92
He probably made better money doing it than if he left. That's a lot of people in a lot of jobs.
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qorbexl Apr 5, 2026 +85
"I can't believe he'd do a job he hated for so long!" Person who deeply hates their job for 1/20th the salary and will not leave unless fired
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Traditional_Bug_2046 Apr 5, 2026 +28
Everyone online would always quit their shitty job, break up with their shitty partner, tell off that shitty friend, and never put up with a shitty situation that makes them uncomfortable just like they claim, right?
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qorbexl Apr 5, 2026 +8
They always have a slightly-wittier quip to respond to spicy teen daughter, a perfectly uplifting line for their tormented son, stand up to their demanding and overbearing spouse via cutting assessment, and dismember their pointless boss with a singularly literary reparteé. Such is listnook.
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Ratattack1204 Apr 5, 2026 +17
As if hes the only one to ever work a job they hate just for the money lol
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naitsirt89 Apr 5, 2026 +4
He doesn't say that, just nonsense from Variety.
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75meilleur Apr 5, 2026 +2
He made hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions over all those years.  Now he says he didn't like it.  That makes Steve Kroft seem rather ungrateful.
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zbend Apr 5, 2026 +1
Pick your poison, he would have hated other things more, I relate.
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Dangle76 Apr 5, 2026 +1
He also may have respected the work he was doing even if he didn’t enjoy doing it
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ideamotor Apr 5, 2026 +1
Maybe uh read the article or listen to the podcast? Or you can complain after confusing yourself with something you made up in your head. Your choice.
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DelcoPAMan Apr 5, 2026 +1
Right?!? Poor guy, it sounds awful!!
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FangornLeghorn Apr 5, 2026
I promise you know way more people than you realize who work their entire lives at jobs they hate. See, we have these things called “bills” and we have to support what we call “our families” and we also need this nefarious but necessary thing called “health insurance.” Those are all powerful motivators to get up and go to a job even when you hate it.
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ruby651 Apr 5, 2026 +10
I read a book written by a former 60 Minutes producer quite awhile back. My memory may be a little foggy, but i’m pretty sure he described Kroft as sort of a dimwit. Which would explain his presence on Bill O’Reilly’s podcast.
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liveforeachmoon Apr 5, 2026 +1
He was kind of the Scott Pelly of his time
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GopnickAvenger Apr 5, 2026 +4
Find the job you hate and do it for over thirty years
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Bubbafett33 Apr 5, 2026 +13
Instant complete lack of respect for celebrities speaking negatively about the media that made them…celebrities.
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AP_in_Indy Apr 5, 2026 +3
I can’t even find the actual quote, and the article has a pretty severe typo. “Inteviewing” instead of “interviewing”
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pdfrg Apr 5, 2026
To be fair, that’s how New Yorkers pronounce it.
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MagicHarmony Apr 5, 2026 +4
I legit don't see how "news anchors" for certain stations feel like they have any life with how they robotically in a manner have to feel like they need to always be present to tell the news. Like when do they actually have time for themselves, it just feels so often they are just cycling to get ready for the next news cycle.
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ThunkAsDrinklePeep Apr 5, 2026 +6
He did one segment on a weekly show. How is that a 24/7 job?
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AP_in_Indy Apr 5, 2026 +2
What is the exact quote from him or context? I can’t find him actually saying he hated doing 60 minutes. Also the article says “inteviewing” instead of “interviewing”. Possible rage bait and inaccurate headline?
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SoberButterfly Apr 5, 2026 +1
This strikes me as part of the Bari Weiss buyout.
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Wind_Responsible Apr 5, 2026 +1
He’s a good story teller for someone who hated it
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MrFizzbin7 Apr 5, 2026 +1
But yet Steve never found another job.
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Embarrassed_Run_7394 Apr 6, 2026 +1
But, he was there for decades. Makes little sense.
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CantAffordzUsername Apr 5, 2026 +1
So why didn’t you quit? I hate cry babies
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Sic39 Apr 5, 2026 +2
TIL answering a question truthfully is crying.
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Not-a-Kitten Apr 5, 2026
He should have quit and given someone else the opportunity.
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