Saying It
"The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable," the long-time journalist wrote. "The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well"
Journalist Scott Pelley accused CBS of weakening 60 Minutes “to curry favor with the Trump administration” after being fired from the long-running news program. Pelley, who joined 60 Minutes in 2004, added that “new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story” and that he was “told to include assertions that are unverified.”
Pelley was fired on Tuesday after a heated meeting on Monday between Pelley and Nick Bilton, the former tech journalist was recently who put in charge of 60 Minutes by CBS’ editorial chief Bari Weiss. His departure follows those of correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, making him the fourth 60 Minutes journalist to leave since February. Many of the show’s top producers have also been let go.
“Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause,” Pelley said in a statement released late Tuesday night. “Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.”
