A huge loss for 60 Minutes, and CBS.

[frigidweirdo]

What a shitshow this network has become. The new boss is someone who has no experience in television, and most of his experience is as a documentary film maker, and who wants to fix something that was never broken.

Well, now it's broken. The one journalist with some real gravitas and clout, a former very effective and respected news anchor for CBS Evening News, has been fired. It remains unclear if his "termination for cause" was justified, or pre-determined, but one thing is certain, those in charge of this program have no experience.




“60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley was fired Tuesday, one day after a fiery confrontation with his new boss, executive producer Nick Bilton, according to two people familiar with the matter.

In an email to “60 Minutes” staff, Bilton wrote that the show had “parted ways” with Pelley. “I know how much Scott meant to many of you, and I don’t say this lightly. I made repeated attempts to have direct conversations with him over the weekend, and this afternoon I tried to find common ground,” Bilton said. “That was not the path Scott chose.”

In a separate letter to Pelley, Bilton wrote that he had been “terminated for cause.”

“Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” Bilton wrote. He called Pelley’s conduct in the meeting a “performative display of hostility — enacted in front of the staff.”

“Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you,” Bilton wrote.

Pelley could not immediately be reached for comment.

The termination comes after Pelley laid into Bilton during a Monday morning “60 Minutes” meeting, when he questioned Bilton’s qualifications and accused CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss of trying to kill the network’s iconic newsmagazine, according to two staffers who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, as well as an audio recording obtained by The Washington Post.

WaPo

Wait, sounds like the White House.

 

[Oklahoma Journalist]

Ooo, a conflict in the workplace among employees. Unprecendented!

 

[Meathead]

What a shitshow this network has become. The new boss is someone who has no experience in television, and most of his experience is as a documentary film maker, and who wants to fix something that was never broken.

Well, now it's broken. The one journalist with some real gravitas and clout, a former very effective and respected news anchor for CBS Evening News, has been fired. It remains unclear if his "termination for cause" was justified, or pre-determined, but one thing is certain, those in charge of this program have no experience.




“60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley was fired Tuesday, one day after a fiery confrontation with his new boss, executive producer Nick Bilton, according to two people familiar with the matter.

In an email to “60 Minutes” staff, Bilton wrote that the show had “parted ways” with Pelley. “I know how much Scott meant to many of you, and I don’t say this lightly. I made repeated attempts to have direct conversations with him over the weekend, and this afternoon I tried to find common ground,” Bilton said. “That was not the path Scott chose.”

In a separate letter to Pelley, Bilton wrote that he had been “terminated for cause.”

“Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” Bilton wrote. He called Pelley’s conduct in the meeting a “performative display of hostility — enacted in front of the staff.”

“Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you,” Bilton wrote.

Pelley could not immediately be reached for comment.

The termination comes after Pelley laid into Bilton during a Monday morning “60 Minutes” meeting, when he questioned Bilton’s qualifications and accused CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss of trying to kill the network’s iconic newsmagazine, according to two staffers who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, as well as an audio recording obtained by The Washington Post.

WaPo

If only 60 Minutes could go back to the days of Dan Rathar, the father of fake news.

 

[1srelluc]

Meh, mess with the bull and you get the horns.

 

[initforme]

Slamming a boss and challenging his qualifications in an open meeting with all staff present, never ends well.

That is true. That being said 99.9 percent of bosses should be regularly and harshly critiqued in front of the entire work pool. If the boss doesnt like that too bad. In most all cases the higher up you go in abusiness the more incompetence you find.

 

[odanny]

I had to Google Scott Pelly.

Not kidding.

Not surprised.

 

[odanny]

MAGA wants it all torn down, all our institutions, because the poor souls have been so terribly victimized. Their miserable lives are all the fault of SOMEONE ELSE, and they want REVENGE. From the law to the courts to the media. Kill it. That's what they want.

Well, they're getting it. And they think what replaces it will be just great for them. THIS will finally improve their crappy lives.

Ignorant, manipulated fools.

The new bosses/owner at CBS are going to tear everything down in a "re-engineering" experiment in network television, and none of them have a clue what they're doing.

Where have we seen this before?

 

[Harry Dresden]

MAGA wants it all torn down, all our institutions, because the poor souls have been so terribly victimized. Their miserable lives are all the fault of SOMEONE ELSE, and they want REVENGE. From the law to the courts to the media. Kill it. That's what they want.

Well, they're getting it. And they think what replaces it will be just great for them. THIS will finally improve their crappy lives.

Ignorant, manipulated fools.

you sound like the party you joined mac...

 

[Mac1958]

The new bosses/owner at CBS are going to tear everything down in a "re-engineering" experiment in network television, and none of them have a clue what they're doing.

Where have we seen this before?

Yep. It's all the same thing, all the same ideology, all the same cult.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

The new bosses/owner at CBS are going to tear everything down in a "re-engineering" experiment in network television, and none of them have a clue what they're doing.

Where have we seen this before?

The latest......

Trump claims 'very tough guy' Orbán wants him back in office​

Euronews
https://www.euronews.com › News › World › Hungary
The former president piled praise on the Hungarian leader during his speech at the Republican convention.

 

[petro]

The latest......

Trump claims 'very tough guy' Orbán wants him back in office​

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https://www.euronews.com › News › World › Hungary
The former president piled praise on the Hungarian leader during his speech at the Republican convention.


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????
Try staying on topic for once.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

????
Try staying on topic for once.

I am on topic, dumb ass.

Hungary​

RSF.ORG
https://rsf.org › country › hungary
Without imprisoning or killing a single journalist, press freedom predator Viktor Orban has nearly wiped out Hungarian independent journalism.

 

[petro]

I am on topic, you dumb ass.

Hungary​

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Without imprisoning or killing a single journalist, press freedom predator Viktor Orban has nearly wiped out Hungarian independent journalism.

This is America and the topic is CBS.

Your comparison is laughable.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

This is America and the topic is CBS.

Your comparison is laughable.

Where did your dear leader and regime, get their "pointers"?

Russia and Hungary.
Your dear leader and cult embraced the communist,Orban.

 

[petro]

Where did your dear leader and regime, get their "pointers"?

Russia and Hungary.
You dear leader and cult embraced the communist,Orban.

Trump doesn't run CBS you hyperventilating moronic gasbag.
If we had a dictatorship, you idiots would be the first thrown out of helicopters.
Yet here you are, free as always to tell lies and spread panic.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Trump doesn't run CBS you hyperventilating moronic gasbag.

He hired David Ellison, idiot.

President Trump Announces Appointments to ...​

The White House (.gov)
https://www.whitehouse.gov › News › Releases
Mar 25, 2026 — Today, President Donald J. Trump appointed the first members to his ... Larry Ellison.

Ellison bought CBS and gutted it, because his orange snowflake of a daddy, couldn't take a joke

If we had a dictatorship, you idiots would be the first thrown out of helicopters.
Yet here you are, free as always to tell lies and spread panic.

That's what your snowflake dear leader and his regime does.

 

[dudmuck]

Trump doesn't run CBS you hyperventilating moronic gasbag.
If we had a dictatorship, you idiots would be the first thrown out of helicopters.
Yet here you are, free as always to tell lies and spread panic.

 

[Lockback]

It is so delightful to see an arrogant, self-important, smug asshole like Scott Pelley finally get what's coming to him.
60 Minutes used to be the standard for journalism when they had Don Hewitt producing and Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner and others reporting. There was a liberal bias perhaps but it wasn't terribly overt.
And then came The Age Of Woke, ushered in when Trump won, and the hack job reporting with trick editing, one-side reporting and questioning. And none was worse than Pelley, the smug actor with the dramatic arched eyebrow and glasses held just right in his hand.
Good riddance. Hopefully, 60 Minutes will someday return to a shadow of its former self. But I doubt it.

 

[Lockback]

He hired David Ellison, idiot.

President Trump Announces Appointments to ...​

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Mar 25, 2026 — Today, President Donald J. Trump appointed the first members to his ... Larry Ellison.

Ellison bought CBS and gutted it, because his orange snowflake of a daddy, couldn't take a joke

That's what your snowflake dear leader and his regime does.

I'm glad it angers you.
That makes me happy.

 

[citygator]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”