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Just yesterday, Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes had a total meltdown on management at CBS News, accusing the new chief Bari Weiss of trying to ‘murder’ the show.
Now Pelley is out at the network. They are not renewing his contract. One never knows what Pelley’s real motivation was here. He may have been trying to get fired and wanted to go out in a blaze of glory.
Either way, good riddance.
#BREAK: CBS NEWS has terminated Scott Pelley’s contract. pic.twitter.com/vbXyX8PBBv
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) June 3, 2026
The New York Post reports:
‘60 Minutes’ star Scott Pelley fired from CBS News after blasting Bari Weiss in heated showdown
CBS News axed veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday night, a day after after the longtime network star blasted editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and challenged her newly installed leadership team in a heated confrontation that exposed the widening civil war inside the iconic news magazine.
In a letter obtained by The Post, newly appointed “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton blasted Pelley in informing him he was fired “for cause effective immediately.”
“[Y]ou hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” Bilton wrote, referring to Monday’s heated face-off between the journo and his boss.
Bilton further accused Pelley of staging a “performative display of hostility” and claimed he had “no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress.”
“I am here to deliver first-in-class news programming, not to make headlines about newsroom drama,” Bilton wrote.
He went on to tell Pelley: “Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you.”
This was the right thing to do.
Scott Pelley is toast at CBS News
Absolutely the right move. Rancorous insubordination to that degree is intolerable at any decent workplace https://t.co/utILW6Cm8d
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 3, 2026
CBS has fired “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley, and rightly so. He betrayed journalistic principles in platforming debunked science, in being closed-minded and dogmatic, and in behaving like a pompous ass. Good riddance. https://t.co/saRQ6YCil8 pic.twitter.com/GMk7lfymP3
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) June 3, 2026
Scott Pelley thought he couldn’t be replaced.
The truth is that most people won’t miss him at all. Now he can join all of the other corporate journos who have been ousted in recent years and launched podcasts.
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