Is CBS News chief Bari Weiss really going ahead with a significant shake-up at ’60 Minutes,’ the nation’s highest-rated television newsweekly whose viewership is up 9 percent this season despite the continued plunge in network news viewers across the broadcast and cable spectrum? Apparently so, according to this NYT update on the latest behind-the-scenes controversy at “60 Minutes.” … 

Fyi: One of Weiss’s reported “re-engineering” ideas is developing “60 Minutes-themed live events,” similar to  The New Yorker Festival and similar I guess to what Weiss, in extra-thick syrupy language, announced on Tuesday at her Free Press publication: ‘The Free Press Community,’ complete with a The Free Press Forum, The Free Press Supper Club and The Free Press Retreats and Excursions. … Actually, the live-events idea sounds like something every other media outlet has been trying for years now, from TCM Classic Cruises to BBJ business events to the Globe’s “events and experiences” lineup. … In other words: it’s not exactly an original idea. If anything, it sounds a little banal. But it’s harmless enough, I suppose.