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Tony Dokoupil shared some heartfelt words on CBS Evening News about his former colleague Scott Pelley after the veteran journalist was fired on Tuesday.
During Wednesday’s show, Dokoupil — who was appointed anchor of the evening newscast by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss at the start of her tenure last year — took a moment to praise Pelley’s career.
“When I started at CBS, Scott Pelley was in this very chair, and still doing a dozen stories a year for 60 Minutes. And amid all of that, still meeting every new correspondent to share his view of the mission here,” he said. “He believed freedom of the press, to quote [James] Madison, was ‘the right that guaranteed all the others.’ And the stakes are always that high in that, if you’d made it to CBS News, you were among the best in the world. He worked every single day to live up to that standard.”
A compilation of some of Pelley’s work at CBS over the years, after he joined the network in 1989, was then played. The video featured the journalist’s coverage from the field of 9/11, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Russia-Ukraine War and more, as well as his many presidential interviews and the dozens of Emmys he received for his work.
