CBS News Fires Scott Pelley After He Accused Bari Weiss of Ordering Falsehoods and Bias
Editor in chief Bari Weiss dismissed the longtime correspondent and five producers last month. Pelley publicly accused Weiss of directing him to insert bias into a story.
nypost.comCBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss dismissed longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley and five other staff members last month. The firings included executive producer Tanya Simon, executive editor Draggan Mihailovich, senior producer Matthew Polevoy, producer Guy Campanile, and correspondents Vega and Alfonsi.
” Pelley was removed the day after a Monday staff meeting with new executive producer Nick Bilton.
In her first public comments, Weiss said Pelley had “broken” the trust in the newsroom. “60 Minutes” first aired on Sept. 24, 1968, hosted by Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner. Nielsen data show the program has been the top-rated news program in America for 52 consecutive years.
In the 1979-80 season it became the first news program to rank No. 1 overall. It stayed in Nielsen’s top 10 throughout the 1980s and reached No. 1 again for three straight seasons beginning in 1991. 1 million viewers.
1 million. By its 50th season in 2017 the program had won 20 Peabody awards, 12 du Pont awards and a record 138 Emmys. 5 billion digital views across social platforms.
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