{"id":837477,"date":"2026-06-01T19:53:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/837477\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:53:31","slug":"seething-scott-pelley-unloads-on-60-minutes-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/837477\/","title":{"rendered":"Seething Scott Pelley Unloads on 60 Minutes Bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        It was supposed to be a cordial forum, one in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/390033\/nick-bilton-a-tv-novice-becomes-60-minutes-boss.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new 60 Minutes executive producer<\/a> Nick Bilton would introduce himself to staffers and try to allay fears amid lots of turmoil. Instead, it turned into what industry newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.status.news\/p\/scott-pelley-60-minutes-nick-bilton-bari-weiss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Status<\/a> is calling &#8220;Pelley&#8217;s 60 Minutes Revolt.&#8221; The reference is to 60 Minutes veteran Scott Pelley, who interrupted Bilton&#8217;s opening remarks and unloaded on him in the Monday morning meeting. At times, his &#8220;newscaster&#8217;s baritone&#8221; was &#8220;shaking in anger,&#8221; reports the the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/01\/business\/media\/cbs-60-minutes-scott-pelley-nick-bilton.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>, which obtained audio of the meeting. Some of the choice exchanges, from those two outlets and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/jun\/01\/60-minutes-scott-pelley-cbs-bari-weiss-cuts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Bilton:<\/strong> &#8220;Bari loves this institution,&#8221; he said of controversial CBS boss Bari Weiss. &#8220;She loves 60 Minutes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Pelley:<\/strong> &#8220;She is murdering 60 Minutes,&#8221; he said. &#8220;She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she&#8217;s been doing exactly that.&#8221; (Weiss was not present.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; It was supposed to be a cordial forum, one in which new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":837478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[15327,127560,26871,171,340205,27598,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-837477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-60-minutes","tag-bari-weiss","tag-cbs-news","tag-entertainment","tag-nick-bilton","tag-scott-pelley","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116676605063912440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}