Posted on 06/02/2026 3:32:45 PM PDT by Libloather
Scott Pelley’s brazen attack on the new boss of ’60 Minutes’ has divided staffers at CBS News, with some insiders branding his behavior as “bullying” and “grandstanding” — and yet another reckoning it was “a set up,” The Post has learned.
Pelley laced into Nick Bilton, the new executive producer of “60 Minutes” on Monday during a meet-and-greet with staffers, calling out the boss’ lack of TV experience, challenging his vision and telling him he will “never be welcomed here.”
“What did he accomplish?” one CBS source said of Pelley’s explosive attack. “He embarrassed the company and the leadership.”
Network sources said Bilton and CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss had tried to speak privately ahead of the meeting with Pelley — who was fuming about the network’s firing of “60 Minutes” correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega, executive producer Tanya Simon and other top producers last week.
“This was a set up. This was Scott going off for show,” the insider opined. “This was just a show. He wants to stand up for journalism and maybe get fired but what does it change?”
A second source agreed that Pelley’s tactics were “problematic,” noting that the correspondent should have met with Weiss or Bilton to at least to hear them out.
“That grandstanding thing is insane. It’s third-grade, playground bullying stuff,” the source said. “This is not the way you conduct yourself.”
“You’re not taking down a dictator or someone who has committed war crimes,” the source added. “You’re not interviewing Saddam Hussein. It was a little bit overkill.”
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Scott Pelley is a liar outright or lies by omission.
I agree for sure.
Pelley looks like a guy that got his front teeth removed so he could pleasure his boyfriends better.
The term “douchebag” describes Pelley to a T.
Demote him to store openings, even though he will still receive his current salary.
He must come out better on his contract if he gets fired rather than quitting.
There’s new management there for a reason. Every failing entity that has new management ushered in knows the inevitable is right around the corner, i.e., firing the folks that stunk the place up. Head stinker Pelley telling the new management they are not welcome is like telling them the sky is blue before they drop the hammer on him. New management does not give a crap what the guy they were brought in to fire thinks of them. Once the stink is out of the room, they will be welcome by the replacements of the losers that did not welcome them
The wire services say Pelley is out at CBS.
Buh bye, Scott. You’re fired!
1000%
Very well said!!!
Publicly criticizing the boss is not a career enhancing move.
“The wire services say Pelley is out at CBS”
Sure seems to me he is fired with cause and not entitled to another dime of CBS’s money.
Pelley’s termination letter. That’s an awful lot of verbiage to say “boy, you really are an A hole., you’re fired!” lol
https://x.com/dylanbyers/status/2061982936698892423
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