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Scott Pelley Discusses Firing from 60 Minutes, Criticizes Bari Weiss's Leadership at CBS News

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Tom Ley

14h ago· 5 min readenOpinion

Summary

The article discusses Scott Pelley's firing from 60 Minutes and his subsequent interview with The New York Times, where he criticizes Bari Weiss's leadership at CBS News. The piece portrays Weiss as incompetent and destructive to the network, focusing on internal conflicts and Pelley's claims about being fired for speaking up to executive producer Nick Bilton.

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Pelley had a few things to say that confirmed Weiss, already one of the worst operators in the history of network TV, has no idea what she's doing.
After he was fired with cause for daring to speak up to newly installed executive producer Nick Bilton in a staff meeting...
Pelley released a statement in which he claimed that he had recently been instructed to...
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Recently fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley sat down with The New York Times over the weekend for a lengthy interview about the end of his tenure at CBS News, which Bari Weiss has been speedily destroying with her incompetence. Pelley had a few t

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