Scott Pelley Mistook 60 Minutes for His Personal Throne Room

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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