FCC Chairman Brendan Carr opposes Scott Pelley, saying in a new profile with New York Times He doesn’t think he’ll be fired after an intense meeting with him 60 minutesNew executive producer, Nick Bilton, announced Monday.
Carr responded to X’s post by conservative journalist Byron York, who clipped part of Bailey’s Sunday interview with The Guardian. times He noted that the possibility of him leaving after the fiery meeting was “the furthest thing from it.” [Pelley’s] mind.”
“One reason trust in the media is so low is that many veteran journalists are completely out of touch with reality,” Carr wrote on Sunday. “You can’t get away with this behavior in any normal business. It’s interesting to see how blind some are to it.”
Pelley was fired Tuesday after the meeting with Pelton, where he said CBS News editor-in-chief Barry Weiss was “killing.” 60 minutes. She doesn’t like this place; She was brought in to kill her and she does just that. He also told Belton that he had “little qualifications” for the position and indicated that he was not welcome at the leading news magazine.
Elsewhere in Billy’s interview with timesthe previous 60 minutes The reporter said he was shocked by the firing of Tanya Simon (who Pelton will succeed), as well as the firing of reporters Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi as staff members headed to the meeting.
“Within hours, all of these people were eliminated, and a third of our reporters were fired,” Bailey said. “At the same moment, we were informed of our new executive producer. His name is Nick Bilton. I’m sure he’s a great guy, but no one has ever heard of him before. He has no TV news experience and no management experience. So imagine how we feel when someone like that comes into a store like 60 minutes“.
After announcing the news of his release 60 minutesBailey issued a statement accusing Weiss of “incompetence and unprofessionalism” and claimed that CBS News management “ordered me to inject lies and bias into a politically sensitive story.”
During a Wednesday morning phone call with employees, Weiss fired back at Bailey, arguing that he had broken “mutual trust and respect.”
After a hectic week, Billy took to Instagram on Saturday, where he thanked those who showed him support in his presence 60 minutes fire.
“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.”
