Scott Pelley took to Instagram on Saturday to specific gratitude for many who have supported him amid his controversial firing from 60 Minutes.
“To all of you who have been so kind, you are the wind in my sails,” the previous correspondent wrote within the caption of the publish, which featured a photograph of himself behind the wheel of a sailboat. “So deeply grateful.”
Pelley was fired on Tuesday after an intense meeting with 60 Minutes‘ new government producer, Nick Bilton, on Monday. In that assembly, Pelley argued that CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is “murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place; she was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.”
After the information was introduced that he was let go from the flagship newsmagazine, Pelley released a statement the place he accused Weiss of “incompetence and unprofessionalism,” and claimed that CBS Information administration “instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.”
“60 has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories,” Pelley wrote. “Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.”
Throughout a Wednesday morning name with workers, Weiss pushed back towards Pelley, arguing that he broke “trust and mutual respect.”
Pelley’s firing adopted the dismissal of EP Tanya Simon and correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi. The dismissal of so many mainstay 60 Minutes producers and correspondents led many to query if Lesley Stahl, Invoice Whitaker and Jon Wertheim, the three remaining correspondents on the present, would additionally step away.
On Friday, Stahl, Withaker and Wertheim confirmed that they might not be exiting 60 Minutes.
“We feared that our returning might be construed as an endorsement of the existing power structure. That is simply, categorically not the case,” they wrote in a memo to workers. “Here’s why we’re are staying: We don’t want to see 60 Minutes die.”
