Posted on 06/01/2026 9:32:14 PM PDT by Red Badger
60 Minutes veteran correspondent Scott Pelley reportedly unleashed on CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss' job qualifications and claimed she's "murdering" the show in a heated meeting with his new boss, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Weiss, 42, was not present for the blowup between Pelley, 68, and the show's new executive producer, Nick Bilton – the hand-picked choice of the former Free Press boss to lead the storied newsmagazine into a new era.
Nick Bilton Claims Bari Weiss 'Loves 60 Minutes'
Bilton's hiring was announced on May 28, and he tried to lead a friendly meet-and-greet with staffers on June 1, but Pelley's temper tantrum cut the meeting short.
The former New York Times tech writer, 49, was joined by CBS News managing editor Charles Forelle, a close colleague of Weiss'. In audio from the meeting the New York Times, Bilton explained that he wasn't going to make any drastic changes to the show.
"For me, the journalism is the journalism. That is why I am here. That is why we are all here," he told staffers, according to the tape.
“The rumors people are spreading, that I’m going to turn the show into 60 one-minute episodes, that it’s going to be like TikTok, that is not changing. The show is going to stay exactly like it is for now," he continued, but then warned of the industry, “Broadcast is an ice cube that is melting."
Bilton also gushed to staffers that Weiss “loves 60 Minutes," and that's when Pelley exploded.
Scott Pelley Claimed Bari Weiss Was 'Brought in to Kill 60 Minutes'
The show veteran raged, "She is murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that."
Pelley then fumed not only about former New York Times opinion editor, but also about his brand-new boss, who has a background as an author and documentary filmmaker. Neither has worked in TV news until their current positions.
"She has no qualifications for her job; you have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the Evening News have been catastrophic, so why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?" the Texas native erupted.
Pelley then made it clear to Bilton that he will never find a happy home at 60 Minutes, especially after the recent terminations of his predecessor, Tanya Simon, executive editor Draggan Mihailovich, and correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, in what is now known as "Black Thursday."
According to the audio obtained by the Times, Pelley asked Bilton why he accepted his new position with the show, "knowing that you will never be welcome here."
Per the Times, Bilton replied, "I have no problem taking a job in a place that I am not welcome in. I don’t think that will be the case."
"I have been a journalist for 25 years, Scott. I’ve sat across from incredibly powerful people like you have, and none of it intimidates me. OK? So you are not going to intimidate me in front of this group of people. I want that to be clear," he added.
The meeting ended after a brief 15 minutes and the room erupted in applause for Pelley following Bilton's departure, according to the outlet.
Bari Weiss Praised New '60 Minutes' Executive Producer as 'The Perfect Leader'
In the announcement about Bilton's hiring, Weiss called him "one of the most entrepreneurial journalists of our time and the perfect leader for one of the most entrepreneurial news brands of all time."
CBS News president Tom Cibrowski shared that Bilton's hiring "represents a deliberate vision for 60 Minutes to go beyond an hour on Sunday evenings to become a 360-degree product that reaches audiences wherever they consume information."
If they wanted to ‘kill 60 Minutes’ all they would have to do is make Steve Colbert the host.
Go Bari!
Squealing echo chamber whores
Pass the popcorn, please!
That would be euthanasia............
What a little prima Donna Pelley is!
Fire him. Replace him with an AI reporter.
60 Minutes is a joke. Been that wasy since the fake Dubya documents in the 2004. No reason to cite or trust that filth of a lying show.
Pelley asked Bilton why he accepted his new position with the show, “knowing that you will never be welcome here.”
Bilton’s response should have been “I know but after I fire you folks, which is why I was hired, I will be”
I think saying that your boss “Has No Qualifications for Her Job” was on page 6 of “How to win friends and influence people”.
Scott Pelley is a liar. He either lies directly or by not telling you the facts.
Good. It should be murdered. Its just an hour’s worth of Leftist lies and propaganda every week. I’d start by firing every single last person even remotely involved in the show and starting from scratch with an entirely new lineup of actual journalists from across the political spectrum and implementing a strict code of ethnics about what is reported and how it is investigated, confirmed, sourced, etc.
60 minutes has been a massively slanted Leftist joke for a lot longer than 2004. I remember my dad complaining bitterly about it in the 1970s. One of my teachers at the Navy school I attended (a former marine) proudly told us all about how he had kicked Morley Safer off his base in Vietnam.
Their other correspondents were Dan Rather. He of the faked 2004 letter fame. He who infamously had CBS show a minute of blank air time when he tried to ambush George Bush in 1988. and Mike Wallace, the father of Leftist hack Chris Wallace. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree there.
The corporate media has been a Leftist propaganda machine for a long long time. Walter Cronkite was a hardcore Leftist and he was See BS’ anchor in the 1960s.
Scott Pelley? I have dog turds on my lawn that have more “qualifications” than he does.
The season that Scotty Pelley came on was about when I quit watching it. I finally realized they were just a bunch of quacks.
Those 60 minute reporters/propagandists are collectively worth millions of dollars. They can’t start a youtube podcast and pay for their own research teams and their travel to get real truthful stories?
They need to face it, their fact gathering and reporting is severely biased and very few give them credence anymore.
Bob “Forehead” has delusions of grandeur.
Apparently Scott Pelley has some sand in his mangina.
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