{"id":582892,"date":"2026-04-05T01:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582892\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:56:08","slug":"steve-kroft-says-he-hated-working-on-60-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582892\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Kroft Says He ‘Hated’ Working on ’60 Minutes’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLongtime \u201c60 Minutes<\/a>\u201d correspondent Steve Kroft recently told Bill O\u2019Reilly on his \u201cWe\u2019ll Do It Live!<\/a>\u201d podcast that he \u201chated\u201d his time on the CBS<\/a> news show.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u201960 Minutes\u2019 was really appealing, and I thought I wasn\u2019t really sure I was ever going to get there. I didn\u2019t really seriously think about it. When I did, there\u2019s so many things that, first of all, the job is just 24 hours a day,\u201d Kroft said. \u201cI mean, you may get a couple hours of bad sleep. Beepers going off, getting on jets, going here and there, the whole thing, then coming back and spending, you know, three or four days writing the script, and then going to the screenings and then getting on, starting it all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKroft explained that he was attracted to \u201c60 Minutes\u201d because the leadership appreciated \u201cgood stories.\u201d He also said that it was \u201cexhilarating\u201d because of how much exposure, good or bad, his work got. After reporting on some particularly dangerous subjects, Kroft said he and the other journalists would be \u201cexcited about the fact that you\u2019re alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKroft also recalled how competitive it was to join the \u201c60 Minutes\u201d newsroom, and how his fellow journalists were jealous after he landed the job.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI can remember when I was tapped to go to \u201860 Minutes,\u2019 I thought this was fantastic and I expected a lot of people would just come up and say, \u2018That\u2019s really great, I\u2019m really happy for you,\u2019\u201d Kroft remembered. \u201cAnd then you realize after a while that not everybody was happy that I got this job. There were other people that wanted it. And so then you\u2019ve all of a sudden made a bunch of enemies\u2026 It\u2019s a snake pit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter joining \u201c60 Minutes\u201d in 1989, Kroft retired from CBS in 2019 at age 73.<\/a> After 30 seasons, he was the show\u2019s longest tenured correspondent. Some of his career highlights include inteviewing Hilliary Clinton, who was then the spouse of future president Bill Clinton. When asked about rumors of an extramarital affair, Hillary Clinton infamously said, \u201cI\u2019m not sitting here some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette. I\u2019m sitting here because I love him, and I respect him.\u201d He also published a story on insider trading in the U.S. Congress that led to major reform and interviewed President Barack Obama 11 times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime \u201c60 Minutes\u201d correspondent Steve Kroft recently told Bill O\u2019Reilly on his \u201cWe\u2019ll Do It Live!\u201d podcast that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[18026,49,48,6714,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-582892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-60-minutes","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cbs","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}