{"id":16391,"date":"2026-06-03T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=16391"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:03:24","slug":"wsj-60-minutes-correspondent-scott-pelley-fired-by-cbs-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=16391","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: \u201860 Minutes\u2019 Correspondent Scott Pelley Fired by CBS News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess this is a big deal but I cannot remember the last time I watched 60 Minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/scott-pelley-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16394\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veteran \u201c60 Minutes\u201d correspondent Scott Pelley was fired by CBS News, a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/media\/60-minutes-staff-meeting-turns-hostile-for-new-executive-producer-f39aaa3d?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">taking aim<\/a> at Editor in Chief Bari Weiss\u2019s leadership during a staff meeting for the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Executive Producer Nick Bilton sent a note to Pelley on Tuesday night saying he was being terminated for cause, effective immediately, according to a copy of the letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pelley interrupted Bilton soon after he started reading introductory remarks at the Monday meeting, according to people in attendance. Pelley accused Weiss, who wasn\u2019t present, of \u201cmurdering\u201d \u201c60 Minutes\u201d and questioned Bilton\u2019s qualifications for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/media\/cbs-news-cuts-ties-with-60-minutes-correspondent-sharyn-alfonsi-73ad85c9?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive producer role<\/a>. Bilton, who was named to the post last week, hasn\u2019t led a weekly TV news show before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pelley spoke with Weiss, CBS News President Tom Cibrowski, Bilton and a human resources representative Tuesday evening to discuss a path forward after his remarks, a meeting that turned tense.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYour antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear,\u201d Bilton wrote to Pelley, calling Pelley\u2019s behavior at Monday\u2019s staff meeting a \u201cperformative display of hostility.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bilton also sent a note to \u201c60 Minutes\u201d staff to inform them of the news.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI know how much Scott meant to many of you, and I don\u2019t say this lightly,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI made repeated attempts to have direct conversations with him over the weekend, and this afternoon I tried to find common ground.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this is a big deal but I cannot remember the last time I watched 60 Minutes. Veteran \u201c60 Minutes\u201d correspondent Scott Pelley was fired by CBS News, a day after taking aim at Editor in Chief Bari Weiss\u2019s leadership during a staff meeting for the show. Executive Producer Nick Bilton sent a note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-politics","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16395,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16391\/revisions\/16395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}