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Scott Pelley Isn’t a Serious Journalist
WFB ^ | 8 June 2026 | Jonathan Leaf

Posted on 06/08/2026 11:43:41 AM PDT by Rummyfan

A week ago, former 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley arrived for a meeting with his new boss, Nick Bilton, on the CBS News show at which they both work. Pelley took this as an opportunity to lecture and browbeat Bilton. In the meeting, which was recorded and leaked to the press, Pelley publicly accused those whom he works for as lacking credentials as journalists. Singling Bilton out, Pelley said that he had "slender qualifications" for the job of producing 60 Minutes. Necessarily, CBS fired Pelley the next day.

In his posture against Bilton, Pelley portrayed himself as possessing the journalistic credibility his new boss lacked. This is a little like Jeffrey Epstein calling out the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit for their lack of caring about underage girls.

I make this claim based on personal experience.

Let me explain. Ten years ago I received a phone call out of the blue. It was from a genuinely distinguished journalist, Irish-American investigative reporter and filmmaker Phelim McAleer. Phelim was calling me to ask if I wanted to collaborate on a piece of documentary theater. The project was inspired by the true story of Steven Donziger and his legal fight with the oil giant Chevron.

Seven years before, Pelley had presented a laudatory profile of Donziger on 60 Minutes. In Pelley’s accounting, Donziger was a brave and capable attorney who had exposed Chevron for the horrible damage that it had done to the virgin tropical forest of Ecuador and the indigenous people living there. Donziger, Pelley claimed, had exposed Chevron’s past wrongs and won an $18 billion judgment in the process. One-third of that was slated to go to Donziger and his financial backers. The rest was to go either to the downtrodden masses of Ecuador or to the restoration of its primeval landscape.

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Pelley is a classic talking-head—someone who started in television and whose whole career has been forged within it. This is the world that the movie Broadcast News depicts. Someone handsome and deep-voiced appears on camera. Others do most or all of the writing and the research.

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In Britain, news anchors have traditionally been called "newsreaders." That’s because this is what they are. Their job is to make sure that their hair is coiffed when they read from the teleprompter. Pelley was a male bimbo: a himbo.

1 posted on 06/08/2026 11:43:41 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Don’t tell Scott that. You’ll never hear the end of it.


2 posted on 06/08/2026 11:47:39 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Rummyfan

Funny to see a guy who gets all his news from his teleprompter get his ass handed to him.


3 posted on 06/08/2026 11:51:01 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Rummyfan

60 Minutes has always had an agenda
1) Look better than Ted Baxter
2) Pretend to be objective but show half-truths.
3) Appeal to the emotions of the self-appointed experts they can feel superior to the common man.


4 posted on 06/08/2026 11:52:30 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: Rummyfan
Scott Pelley Isn’t a Serious Journalist

But he IS a serious douchebag.

5 posted on 06/08/2026 12:26:28 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Rummyfan

Scott Pelly sounds like Michael Scott at his worst. He is CBS’s Michael Scott.


6 posted on 06/08/2026 12:28:32 PM PDT by far sider
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To: Rummyfan

anybody who knows anything about how “news” shows work, know that that producers do the heavy lifting: gathering data, doing interviews, gathering film clips and organizing and editing the whole thing together into a coherent story, including writing the scripts for the talking heads to read, while the newsreader gets all the credit ...

btw, great to see producers being fired from 60 minutes as well as the talking heads, as the producers are the real source of the lies, propaganda, and bullshit ...


7 posted on 06/08/2026 12:30:50 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Rummyfan

LOL.

I love ‘himbo’.


8 posted on 06/08/2026 12:30:52 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Sicon
Scott Pelley Isn’t a Serious Journalist

Few of them are actual journalists.

But many fit your description.

9 posted on 06/08/2026 12:32:29 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: Rummyfan

Scott Pelley Isn’t a Journalist....He’s a hack..............


10 posted on 06/08/2026 12:35:20 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Rummyfan

Never heard of him until he was fired. After listening to him for 10 seconds I pegged him as a prick with ears.


11 posted on 06/08/2026 12:41:48 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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“A week ago, former 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley”. You should be able to draw unemployment insurance Steve.


12 posted on 06/08/2026 12:42:14 PM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthbym because + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: Rummyfan

Interesting story about Pelley (90% certainty) in Iraq from Cynical Publius.

https://xcancel.com/CynicalPublius/status/2063725560912814538?s=20

Pelley is a pompous horses behind.


13 posted on 06/08/2026 1:08:08 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Rummyfan

With all due respect to the Washington Free Beacon, none of us need an article to tell us that Scott Pelley isn’t a serious journalist, or that he’s a vain, childish, egotistical prima dona. We’ve all known that for a long time.


14 posted on 06/08/2026 1:11:47 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Rummyfan

Bkmk


15 posted on 06/08/2026 1:19:55 PM PDT by sauropod
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Yeah, but Pelley was good at playing Frasier’s brother on TV!


16 posted on 06/08/2026 1:22:02 PM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: Rummyfan
CORRECTION...

Scott Pelley Isn’t a Serious Journalist

17 posted on 06/08/2026 1:23:13 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Red Badger

Well, they can always bring back Mary Mapes as a producer.


18 posted on 06/08/2026 1:25:01 PM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town now! )
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To: Bonemaker

After listening to him for 10 seconds I pegged him as a prick with ears.
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That’s funny.


19 posted on 06/08/2026 1:31:26 PM PDT by yldstrk
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To: Libloather

There are no investigative journalists in the mainstream media anymore. All these fools do is parrot what their minders tell them to think and say. The only true journalist are in the “new media”!


20 posted on 06/08/2026 1:35:17 PM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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