Scott Pelley is fired. What's it say about 60 Minutes' future?
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
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Over the last week, some of the biggest names at 60 Minutes have been fired from CBS News.
Executive Producer Tanya Simon, correspondents: Sharon Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega and last night Scott Pelley.
Pelley was fired after he confronted CBS leadership for, as he put it, trying to gut and "murder" the show.
Now, the most iconic show in broadcast journalism is in freefall.
One of the program's most prominent alumnae weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | It's consider this, where every day we go deep on one big news story. Today, the future of 60 |
| 0:07.3 | minutes. The sound of that stopwatch has opened the premier news magazine for almost six |
| 0:12.1 | decades. And over that time, the program has exposed bad actors at home and abroad, questioned |
| 0:17.6 | presidents, world leaders, and the notorious. |
| 0:20.4 | We're in nicotine delivery business. And that's what cigarettes are for, most certainly. |
| 0:24.3 | It was this picture and dozens of others that prompted an investigation by the U.S. Army. |
| 0:29.6 | You know, I'm not sitting here as some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette. |
| 0:33.8 | Now, CBS News leadership seems intent on changing how the work gets done and changing the stories that get told. |
| 0:40.4 | The only explanation is that they're feeling pressure from the White House not to do any stories that are critical of the president of the United States. |
| 0:52.1 | Consider this. For almost six decades, 60 minutes has been one of the most |
| 0:56.1 | trusted news programs in America. Is CBS leadership making changes that could destroy the |
| 1:01.4 | program's future? We'll talk about it with one of the show's most prominent correspondents. |
| 1:08.1 | From NPR, I'm Scott Detrow. It's |
| 1:12.9 | It's Consider this from NPR. |
| 1:22.7 | Over the past week, some of the biggest names that 60 Minutes have been fired from CBS News. |
| 1:28.6 | Executive producer Tanya Simon, correspond correspondence Sharon Alfonzi and Cecilia Vega, and last night, Scott Pelly. Pelley was |
| 1:35.1 | fired after he confronted CBS leadership for, as he put it, trying to gut and quote murder the show. |
| 1:41.7 | Now, the most iconic program in broadcast journalism is in free fall. |
| 1:46.2 | I spoke to retired 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Croft about the turmoil on Wednesday. |
| 1:51.4 | I just want to start with what has been going through your head over the past three days. |
| 1:58.1 | Disbelief. I think I'm totally surprised that one of the most successful and popular |
| 2:06.3 | news programs on television could be essentially destroyed under the instructions of the |
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