Former 60 Minutes Correspondent Scott Pelley Details How CBS Executive Pressured Him to Change Stories
Pelley said Weiss asked producers to portray Minnesota protesters as more violent and pulled a report on Venezuelans deported to El Salvador.
- Longtime CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley was fired last week and detailed his clashes with editor-in-chief Bari Weiss in a New York Times interview, alleging she attempted to force bias into his reporting.
- Since Weiss arrived at CBS last year, Pelley stated she placed 'a thumb on the scale' for the White House, demanding coverage centered on their point of view regardless of factual accuracy.
- Regarding coverage of the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Pelley said Weiss emailed producers hours before airtime, asking them to 'make the protesters look more violent' and promote false claims.
- After Weiss blocked a '60 Minutes' report on the CECOT prison, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi wrote in a leaked email that the decision was 'not an editorial decision, it is a political one.'
- Departures including correspondent Cecilia Vega have followed the controversy, with Vega labeling the atmosphere 'censorship' and Pelley describing the network's current state as 'like your spouse being murdered.
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NEW YORK (AP) — When CBS News President Tom Cibrowski asked Scott Pelley if he could come by for a meeting last Tuesday, the longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent booked about an hour on his calendar, he says. He assumed he’d be having an extensive discussion about issues that led to his tense confrontation a day earlier with his new boss, Nick Bilton. He didn’t know Bari Weiss, the news division’s editor in chief, would be there. But his initial …
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