Last week CBS News head Bari Weiss fired Tanya Simon, the longtime 60 Minutes producer and interim executive producer, and replaced her with Nick Bilton, a tech journalist and producer with no experience in broadcast news.

Nick Bilton’s career is hard to explain except other than to say that some people just seem to have the wind at their back. He started out as a design editor at the Times before morphing into a prominent tech columnist (this might seem a little unusual, but jumping from a completely unrelated field into tech journalism is fairly common – Kara Swisher was at the style desk before she started writing about AOL in the 90s). He eventually leveraged his renown into a gig writing and producing documentary films. Now he’s set to head up CBS News’s flagship program. Each career move a little less explicable than the last.

Bilton has occasionally embarrassed himself. Once he wrote a piece for Vanity Fair titled “How I Got To the Bottom of the Theranos Mess.” That’s a pretty interesting title, considering that the Theranos story was famously broken by the Wall Street Journal’s John Carreyrou (which Bilton acknowledges), and Bilton provided little more than a bit of supplementary reporting almost a year later.

But for the most part, Bilton’s tech reporting is forgettable, run of the mill stuff. He’d report on the internal goings-on at Twitter, or about how technology was changing our lives in some minor way. When he started writing about tech for the Times, his first few columns were so vacuous that Leah Finnegan wrote a piece in Gawker mocking them.