Just yesterday, Scott Pelley of60 Minuteshad a total meltdown on management at CBS News, accusing the new chief Bari Weiss oftrying to ‘murder’ the show.
Now Pelley is out at the network. They are not renewing his contract. One never knows what Pelley’s real motivation was here. He may have been trying to get fired and wanted to go out in a blaze of glory.
#BREAK: CBS NEWS has terminated Scott Pelley's contract.pic.twitter.com/vbXyX8PBBv
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers)June 3, 2026
‘60 Minutes’ star Scott Pelley fired from CBS News after blasting Bari Weiss in heated showdown
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.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
