‘60 Minutes’ Veteran Scott Pelley Fired By New Boss; He Didn’t Leave Quietly!
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3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Well, that didn’t take long. New ‘60 Minutes’ EP Nick Bilton fired Scott Pelley after Monday morning’s staff meeting that he says Pelley “hijacked” to disparage him. Pelley fired back with a statement of his own, alleging that new management has instructed him to “inject falsehoods and bias” into his reporting. What happens now to the legendary broadcast now that’s it’s lost 4 of its 7 correspondents and most of its senior producing staff.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.0 | It is Wednesday, June 3rd, and he has been the name and the face of CBS News, |
| 0:13.8 | and in particular, 60 minutes for decades. |
| 0:17.8 | But Scott Pelly just got fired. |
| 0:20.1 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and |
| 0:22.6 | T.J. Robs, this escalated quickly. Meeting on Monday, he was fired on Tuesday. Yes. And look, |
| 0:30.7 | according to at least one side, there were attempts to try and talk it out, to work it out, but man, they were on |
| 0:40.2 | opposite sides of the fence, and Scott Pelly made it known. Yeah, and look, folks, we're going to |
| 0:46.4 | share with you two letters. One is the termination letter. The other is Pelley's response to being |
| 0:52.9 | fired. Good Lord. This is probably not going to be the end of it. |
| 0:57.8 | Robs, a lot of this stuff sounds, yes, there's anger, there's emotion, but a lot of this sounds personal. |
| 1:03.1 | A lot of this sounds almost taking shots at each other to a certain degree, Robes. |
| 1:08.4 | And this is just a shame. This is 60 minutes. |
| 1:11.7 | This is Scott Pelley. |
| 1:13.5 | Robs, this is a different generation I know, but can you imagine a new person coming in and |
| 1:17.3 | firing Mike Wallace because of an argument they were having in a meeting? |
| 1:22.3 | He's an institution of the institution. |
| 1:25.1 | Right. |
| 1:25.7 | And the problem is the folks who have been brought in by the |
| 1:29.2 | owners of that institution aren't a part of the institution. And so there's an absolute us versus |
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