CBS News fires '60 Minutes' veteran Scott Pelley
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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel called out CBS News leadership, branding executives “Trump suck-ups.” It followed Scott Pelley‘s firing from 60 Minutes. Kimmel used his Wednesday monologue to defend
The show's new leader says he fired star Scott Pelley for insubordination. Pelley says he was defending the integrity of the show's journalism after three top executives and two reporters were fired.
"I'm only interested in working in a newsroom that is built on trust and mutual respect," Weiss told staff Wednesday.
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss shook up the TV-news industry’s most-watched and best-regarded property Thursday, ousting the program’s two most senior executive producer, Tanya Simon and Draggan Mihailoivich,