Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
Corroborated by 5 sources from 5 publishers
TL;DR
Reports differ across sources; according to forbes.com, 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.
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The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/magazine/scott-pelley-interview.html
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Yahoo Finance News
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/scott-bessent-says-bitcoin-moving-150132601.html
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Forbes Business
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/06/07/scott-pelley-blasts-cbs-news-incompetence-under-bari-weiss-in-scathing-new-york-times-interview
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Fox News Latest Headlines
https://www.foxnews.com/media/scott-pelley-says-cbs-news-on-fire-after-bari-weiss-takeover-60-minutes-bloodbath
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The Guardian (World)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/07/scott-pelley-bari-weiss-renee-good-report