CNN: The big unanswered questions about ‘60 Minutes’ after Scott Pelley’s firing
Pelley says new management ordered him to add unverified claims and political bias, while CBS has already fired several top 60 Minutes staffers.
- On Tuesday, CBS News dismissed veteran '60 Minutes' correspondent Scott Pelley following internal clashes with new leadership, marking a significant departure for the long-running program.
- Tensions with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and '60 Minutes' top producer Nick Bilton preceded the dismissal, occurring amid wider leadership shifts at parent company Paramount.
- During Wednesday's editorial call, Weiss told staff the network "had to part ways" because their foundation of trust was "broken," while affirming Pelley's contributions over more than 30 years.
- Pelley is challenging the network's official account of his departure, which follows exits of fellow correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi last week.
- CBS News president Tom Cibrowski praised Pelley's "incredible body of work" while acknowledging that transforming the network for the digital era is "a lot to process.
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List: Far-Left Democrats, Disgraced Journos Rush to Scott Pelley's Defense
Thursday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed the people lining up to defend Scott Pelley after CBS News fired him. The post List: Far-Left Democrats, Disgraced Journos Rush to Scott Pelley’s Defense appeared first on Breitbart.
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Longtime CBS correspondent Scott Pelley lived many workers' fantasy: Telling your boss off
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FIRED — Prominent Anti-Trumper's Career Ended On Election Day
The head of CBS News told employees on Wednesday that longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley was being fired due to a breakdown of trust. “I’m only interested in working in a newsroom that is built on trust and mutual respect; we cannot do our work without it,” Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss reportedly told the newsroom on the morning call. “That foundation was broken on Monday,” she added. The controversy erupted after CBS News terminated…
WGA Slams Scott Pelley’s Firing and CBS News’ ‘Cruel and Needless Layoffs’: ‘A Profound Contempt for the Journalism Profession’
The head of the Writers Guild of America East union blasted Paramount-owned CBS News for recent "cruel and needless layoffs," its firing of "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley and the shutdown of CBS News Radio.
We Are All Scott Pelley
ShareI started in radio news as a teenage reporter at WITL-AM/FM in Lansing, Michigan, then the number one station in the capitol city. I began reporting from the Capitol and City Hall, and was writing and reading the morning newscasts within a year.The station owner was a hardcore Goldwater Republican, our news director was a liberal but Libertarian-curious Democrat, and I was a long-haired anti-war hippie member of MSU SDS. I did the news ther…
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