FCC boss Brendan Carr went after journalist Scott Pelley for claiming in his recent New York Times profile that it “hadn’t occurred” to him that he would be fired from “60 Minutes.”
“One of the reasons why trust in media is so low is because many legacy journalists are completely out of touch,” Carr wrote on X Sunday morning. “You could not get away with that behavior at any run of the mill job. It is revealing to see how blind some are to that.”
One of the reasons why trust in media is so low is because many legacy journalists are completely out of touch. You could not get away with that behavior at any run of the mill job. It is revealing to see how blind some are to that.— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) June 7, 2026
By “that behavior,” Carr means Pelley’s recent and very public distaste for the new regime at CBS News and “60 Minutes.” It was reported that on May 25, Pelley lashed out at the show’s new executive producer, Nick Bilton, telling the former NYT tech columnist that he had “slender qualifications” for his job. Bilton was recruited to “60 Minutes” by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, whom Pelley accused of “murdering” the show through her leadership during the same meeting.
