Scott Pelley Blasts CBS News ‘Incompetence’ Under Bari Weiss In Scathing New York Times Interview
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- Breaking News Scott Pelley Blasts CBS News ‘Incompetence’ Under Bari Weiss In Scathing New York Times Interview By Zachary Folk,
- Pelley said his team had already included footage of protesters “acting aggressively” and footage of Alex Pretti, the other protester killed in Minneapolis’ immigration enforcement-related protests, kicking a police car.
- Pelley said he did not follow Weiss’ instructions and did not receive any feedback or retaliation after the broadcast, but still slammed Weiss for sending the notes last minute: “You don’t break a deadline.
Breaking News Scott Pelley Blasts CBS News ‘Incompetence’ Under Bari Weiss In Scathing New York Times Interview By Zachary Folk,
Topline Scott Pelley, the former “60 Minutes” correspondent fired by CBS News after an outburst in a meeting last week, accused the network’s new top editors of “incompetence” and “inexperience” in a scathing new interview published by the New York Times on Sunday, and even suggested notes from editor-in-chief Bari Weiss amounted to putting “a thumb on the scale for the president’s version of events” when covering the protests and shootings in Minneapolis earlier this year.
The veteran former “60 Minutes” correspondent accused his former employer of appearing to put a “thumb on the scale” for the White House during production of a piece about protests in Minneapolis.AFP via Getty ImagesKey FactsPelley, a veteran correspondent who first joined CBS News in 1989, said he was not initially expecting to get fired, until a followup meeting with CBS News president and executive editor Tom Cibrowski, who called his outburst a “firing offense.”