Posted on 06/03/2026 4:12:41 AM PDT by V_TWIN
CBS News axed veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday night, a day after after the longtime network star blasted editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and challenged her newly installed leadership team in a heated confrontation that exposed the widening civil war inside the iconic news magazine.
In a letter obtained by The Post, newly appointed “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton blasted Pelley in informing him he was fired “for cause effective immediately.”
“[Y]ou hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” Bilton wrote, referring to Monday’s heated face-off between the journo and his boss.
Bilton further accused Pelley of staging a “performative display of hostility” and claimed he had “no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress.”
“I am here to deliver first-in-class news programming, not to make headlines about newsroom drama,” Bilton wrote.
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So it’s official Jessica Tarlov is no longer on The Five show?
His show was given a new boss.
He was not consulted.
He got pissed and sad so at the first meeting between the new guy and top staff of the show.
Now he’s fired.
Oh boo hoo, boo hoo!!! /sarc
Like the Dims the Scott Pelleys of the world are tied to Pelley has grown to believe his own myths about himself and his peers, that they are an elite you cannot challenge, because THEY have an unquestionable moral high ground - so they think.
“But most likely he’ll be relegated to the black hole of uninteresting pod casts.”
and when that back hole doesn’t work out, he can always start his own personal subreddit, the platform for voices that shout out like the sound of mosquitoes ...
“maybe he has enough and perhaps did not feel like getting bossed around by a lesbian.”
Sexy role play at 60 minutes!
Great FAFO move numbnuts
It gives me great schadenfreude to see pelley Find Out!
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