CBS fires Scott Pelley after criticism of network leadership

CBS News has ousted Scott Pelley, the veteran journalist and “60 Minutes” correspondent, after he issued a scathing rebuke of network leadership during a staff meeting on Monday.

Pelley called the program’s top boss unqualified to lead it and accused the outlet’s executive editor of trying to “murder” the show he has worked on for nearly 30 years.

Journalist Nick Bilton, the newly implemented executive producer of “60 Minutes,” shared news of Pelley’s firing with employees late Tuesday, saying he “made repeated attempts to have direct conversations with [Pelley] over the weekend, and this afternoon I tried to find common ground.”

“That was not the path Scott chose,” Bilton wrote in his memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill. “What I regret most is that this situation interfered with the conversation I had hoped to have with you about Season 59 and........

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