CBS Fires Scott Pelley

[applegrove]

CBS Fires Scott Pelley

June 2, 2026 at 9:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/06/02/cbs-fires-scott-pelley/

“CBS News fired veteran ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, hours after a contentious meeting with management in response to his criticism of the newsmagazine’s new leadership,” CNN reports.

[spanone]

1. A Badge of Honor.

[applegrove]

4. Yes. I hope all the fired 60 Minute correspondents

get together and start their own show. I will miss it terribly.

[eppur_se_muova]

19. They could name it "3600 Seconds" ! :D

Maybe more likely to be a Web site or YouTube channel or podcast than a dinosaur network show.

[CaptainTruth]

50. Or "The Hour"

[hamsterjill]

29. Yes. I'm glad he didn't bend.

There seem to be so few journalists today who are willing to stand up to the ridiculousness. Glad there are some who are still willing, and I applaud them.

[Cha]

49. Yes, Tis True tis True!

[a kennedy]

2. Of fawking course they did!!!!!!! THAT's IT I AM NEVER WATCHING CBS EVER AGAIN!!!!!

🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[Grim Chieftain]

54. I'll never watch CBS again

I hope there is a massive boycott, between what they did to Colbert and now Scott Pelley, they are toxic tv.

We can make our anger known in a big way - "The people united will never be defeated".

[NJCher]

3. CBS is so going to regret this

How could you not see where all this is leading?

[applegrove]

5. Republicans own some Canadian newspapers

and run them at a loss. They don't care if they make money as long as Project 2025 and Movement Conservatism keeps going.

[moonscape]

20. Which ones?

[applegrove]

22. National Post ran at a deficit for 20 years.

Postmedia: Canada’s largest newspaper company (which publishes the National Post, the Vancouver Sun, and the Ottawa Citizen) continues to experience ongoing financial deficits. For example, the publisher reported a net loss of $16.9 million and frequently relies on subsidies to offset falling print

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[moonscape]

31. Thanks. I'm not Canadian

but was curious if it was just conservative papers that lose money, and it seems the Toronto Star does also and some other left of center papers. The newspaper business is tough there also.

[applegrove]

33. The National Post was created to be a Republican voice.

I don't think it ever made a profit. The Toronto Star was popular in the 20th Century before the newspaper industry tanked. The National Post never was.

[moonscape]

53. Ah, thanks.

[thomski64]

9. ..destroying CBS..

..seems to be the intention..

[calimary]

37. Revenge for having been known as a "liberal" network?

[orleans]

6. CNN just announced this.

with all the radio talk -- will he stay and fight? will he quit?

i guess fucking cbs decided to put down their whatever they have

and now, what will leslie stahl do? dun dun dun

[Ocelot II]

7. No surprise, but he should feel honored.

[dem4decades]

8. I think he already told them to take their job and shove it.

Is anyone that stays at 60 minutes and CBS News a low life Trumper now?

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. CBS's loss, our gain.

MeidasTouch has been talking with the 60 Minutes folks to continue on independent media. Hope it happens.

[applegrove]

11. Excellent.

[calimary]

57. Boy, THAT would rock the media world!

[ITAL]

12. He'll probably sue

Not for being fired, but them saying it was "with cause."

[appmanga]

16. There are often "non-disparagement" clauses in employment contracts...

...and even some employee policy manuals where contracts aren't involved. I would assume though, that being fired like this negates any non-compete clause he may have had. What's laughable is the clown that fired him, who has no real background in news, mentions that Pelley saying that is part of the reason for firing him. I won't be watching any CBS News show, or entertainment program.

[dgauss]

13. I'd like to see the 60 minutes crew cut loose on the Only in Monroe

public access show hosted by Stephen Colbert. Won't fix anything but I'd still like to see that.

[Takket]

14. ABC and NBC are quite insane if they don't capitalize on all this talent floating out there to make a new news show

just imagine the ratings for "the comeback" of these cast of journalists. Passing on this would be like if the Bulls cut Michael Jordan and the rest of the NBA just said "nah, not interested"

[OAITW r.2.0]

17. Meidastouch has almost 7mm subscribers and growing rapidly.

Ben Meiselas is putting together an independent investigative information juggernaut. Amazing to watch the transition.

[Diamond_Dog]

15. I figured this would happen.

Sickening how CBS was so cowed by the Dumpster.

[Irish_Dem]

18. It's like the McCarthy era.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. Yet another reason to boycott CBS

[question everything]

23. I am curious of whether Sunday Morning will survive

The only program that I watch.

But, I suppose, they have all ball games that they carry.

[senseandsensibility]

24. Rachel covering now

The newly appointed executive producer is big mad and wrote a letter claiming Pellet hijacked his first meeting with staff to disparage him and treated him with contempt. Sounds like a very thin skinned individual.

[Renew Deal]

25. He'll be fine

[hay rick]

26. The show is 47 Minutes now.

[TheDemsshouldhireme]

27. Bari gonna Bari

Keeps digging the hole.

[Orangenero]

28. If you yell at your new boss in front

Of the staff, the first time you meet him, it's likely going to be your last meeting, and it was...

[displacedvermoter]

56. If you have a new boss who knows what the fuck he/she/they

are doing, they know what they are facing when they go into that first meeting. They try and diffuse a potentially bad situation, and they don't play dumb. And if they've got a secure position, they insist their boss (here Barbi) is present, so decisions made before today can be explained by the person who made them.

But Pelley is right, destroying 60 Minutes was the intention, and they all know/knew it before this meeting.

[orangecrush]

30. We will all go down together

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[aeromanKC]

32. CBS who? What is that?

[BowDown]

34. CBS Eye

The CBS Eye has now become the Eye of Sauron.

[calimary]

42. CBS has a big black eye now.

Its oft-used nickname was "the Tiffany network" because of the high quality and good taste of its programming, AND ESPECIALLY its news presentation. Those three letters really meant something. Back when I was still working, if you worked at CBS, you were widely considered to be working for the absolute best network in the business. Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Eric Sevareid, Douglas Edwards, Bob Schieffer - it was a "murderers' row" of news giants, and if you were thought worthy to work where these folks worked, you were golden almost as much as they were.

Nice to be retired, I have to admit. I'm not only out-of-range, I'm no longer even on the same planet.

[calimary]

58. I just found myself thinking "the CBS Eye-YI-YI."

[OrlandoDem2]

35. Does Bari Weiss want 60 Minutes to fail?

If she does then I’m gonna watch it just to make her fail.

If she doesn’t then we need to boycott 60 Minutes.

She has got to be hired by the MAGAts to sabotage this mainstay of TV.

[JHB]

39. No, she wants to put her imprint on it, but her imprint will make it fail

So it's not a matter of want, it's just a matter of fact. But, like George W, Bush, she's a well-connected failure, so there will be other things blamed for the coming demise of 60-Minutes, not the obvious quality drop.

[Skittles]

51. I'm pretty sure that is one of her missions

it is pretty obvious anyone who presents the facts has to go :shrug"

[Joinfortmill]

36. This country is going to hell in a hand basket.

[Wild blueberry]

38. Of course they did

Assholes.

[Sparkly]

40. Seems like the goal has been

to destroy CBS.

Kind of like Bezos destroyed The Washington Post.

Kind of like Donald Freaking Trump and his corrupt appointees are destroying the country.

It's on purpose. It's the goal.

[applegrove]

41. Like I said in an earlier post Republicans/conservatives started a newspaper

in Canada in the late 1980s or early 1990s that never made a profit. It was only there to change hearts and minds and get lower taxes, fewer social programs, wedge issues and no regulations. The National Post.

[calimary]

43. Hard to see it as anything otherwise.

Hey, folks, we WILL get through this, too. But it's gonna take some time, and not a small amount of "strategery".

[maxsolomon]

61. CBS won't get through it.

They're being turned into a RW network and will remain so. It they don't outright broadcast Trumpist lies, they'll certainly never air critical reportage again.

[DET]

44. Unbelievable

The dweeb that fired distinguished journalist Scott Pelley doesn’t even have a college degree. From Wikipedia, he was one of three writers of this little gem…

Marketed by HBO as "the sleaziest love story in all of Hollywood,"[15] the proposed story of a woman finding herself sexually was rewritten into a show about a man who gets to abuse this woman sexually and she loves it, aka "sexual torture porn"

[dalton99a]

45. Fuck CBS.

[Cha]

48. Gosh, I hope some day Bari Weiss get

what she deserves. And all the C BS brown shirts.

[Crowman2009]

60. I hope she won't be able to attend a pride parade ever again.

If she does, then she better get ready for shouts of SHAME!

[gulliver]

46. Pelley did some good stuff

Will miss him.

[Cha]

47. I freaking knew that was cooing.

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Can't have any Free Thinkers. Must be all in Nazi step with asshole Bari Weiss.

Scott Pelley probably knew that was coming, right?

[BuddhaGirl]

59. He absolutely did

What a courageous move....he knew the possible consequences of speaking out.

CBS doesn't care. Ellison will turn it into a propaganda network.

[D_Master81]

55. If you have a shred of dignity

Honestly anyone left there with a shred of dignity should quit in protest. They’ll do to 60 Minutes what happened to Newsweek and make it a rag.

[MoseShrute]

62. This is what happens with fascism

[LetMyPeopleVote]

63. Scott Pelley just issued a statement on Bari's remarks this morning:

Link to tweet

[Jacson6]

64. Pelley is 68 yrs old so he decided to go out with a bang instead of a whimper.

He is going to have a great retirement with several pensions and SSA.

[NNadir]

65. These people buy media to kill it. It's what they do.

It's a new approach to installing a fascist oligarchy.

[GiqueCee]

66. Republicans are traitors...

... to the very concept of decency. They are underhanded, despicable liars, and they're proud of it; just look at that waste of skin, Roger Stone. Like ticks, they're going to be difficult to dislodge from positions of power and influence. Ticks are worthless, except that chickens like to snack on them. Republicans will be snacked on by rats and maggots, but even rats may forego that dubious pleasure.