Scott Pelley took to Instagram on Saturday to express his gratitude to those who have supported him amid his controversial firing from his position 60 minutes.
“To everyone who has been kind, you are the wind in my sails,” the former reporter wrote in a comment on the post, which showed a photo of himself behind the wheel of a sailboat. “Very grateful.”
Bailey was fired on Tuesday after an intense meeting with… 60 minutesNew executive producer, Nick Bilton, announced Monday. At that meeting, Bailey said that CBS News editor-in-chief Barry Weiss was “committing murder 60 minutes. She doesn’t like this place; She was brought in to kill her and she does just that.
After news of his departure from the leading news magazine was announced, Bailey issued a statement accusing Weiss of “incompetence and unprofessionalism” and claimed that CBS News management “ordered me to insert lies and bias into a politically sensitive story.”
“60 “It has been the number one show in America for decades because our beloved audiences find integrity, quality and humanity in our stories,” Bailey wrote. “And now, our network’s new owner is casting that myth aside, apparently to earn a moment of favor with the Trump administration.”
During a Wednesday morning phone call with employees, Weiss fired back at Bailey, arguing that he had broken “mutual trust and respect.”
Bailey’s dismissal follows the firing of EP Tanya Simone and reporters Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi. Dismissing a lot of mainstays 60 minutes Producers and reporters have led many to wonder if Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and John Wertheim, the show’s three remaining correspondents, will also step down.
Stahl, Whitaker and Wertheim confirmed on Friday that they would not be exiting 60 minutes.
“We feared that our return would be interpreted as an endorsement of the current power structure,” they wrote in a memo to staff. “This is simply categorically not the case.” “This is why we stay: we don’t want to see 60 minutes He dies.”
