Scott Pelley Mistook 60 Minutes for His Personal Throne Room
Pelley had every right to dislike the actions management made, and he also had every right to raise concerns through normal channels.Instead, he chose a public confrontation, then reached for victimhood like a man who confused tenure with ownership.Then came the interviews. Pelley, clearing his throat for his encore performance, demanded Weiss be removed, as if CBS had fired him and then somehow owed him control of the building. We have people who’ve been installed in these jobs who through no fault of their own have no experience in television.
- ▪Pelley had every right to dislike the actions management made, and he also had every right to raise concerns through normal channels.Instead, he chose a public confrontation, then reached for victimhood like a man who confused tenure with o
- ▪Pelley, clearing his throat for his encore performance, demanded Weiss be removed, as if CBS had fired him and then somehow owed him control of the building.
- ▪We have people who’ve been installed in these jobs who through no fault of their own have no experience in television.
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Scott Pelley Mistook 60 Minutes for His Personal Throne Room David Manney | 7:08 PM on June 07, 2026 John Paul Filo/CBS via AP Scott Pelley spent 37 years at CBS News and became one of the familiar faces of “60 Minutes.” He also anchored and managed “CBS Evening News” from 2011 to 2017.Longevity can bring wisdom, but it also can convince a person who reads a script that the chair is his. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); Pelley's exit from CBS looks a lot less like martyrdom and a lot more like Job 101 catching up with him late in life.Pelley lost his job after a tense staff meeting with Bari Weiss, editor-in-chief of CBS News, and Nick Bilton, executive producer of “60…
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