Scott Pelley
Scott Cameron Pelley is an American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years. Pelley is the author of the 2019 book, Truth Worth Telling, and a correspondent for the CBS News magazine 60 Minutes. Pelley served as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 2011 to 2017, a period in which the broadcast added more than a million and a half viewers, achieving its highest ratings in more than a decade. Pelley served as CBS News's chief White House correspondent from 1997 to 1999.
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Jun 8, 2026
Far Right
Pelley gave his first interview since being fired from CBS News, accusing the network's new leadership of political bias and incompetence following Bari Weiss's takeover and the 60 Minutes shake-up.
The far right reads Pelley's complaints as a legacy media gatekeeper crying foul after losing control of a propaganda organ, seeing the CBS shake-up as a long-overdue disruption of institutionalized left-wing narrative control.
Jun 7, 2026
Far Left
Pelley gave an interview to the New York Times pushing back against Trump's attacks on his patriotism, positioning himself as a First Amendment defender after clashing with CBS News over its pro-MAGA drift.
The far left has little patience for legacy broadcast journalists recasting themselves as resistance heroes, viewing CBS and its corporate ownership as structurally complicit in media consolidation that serves ruling class interests regardless of which anchor speaks up.
Jun 3, 2026
Lean Right
CBS fired veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley after he publicly attacked incoming editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, calling her a murderer of the show and questioning her producer's qualifications.
Pelley's firing is celebrated in lean-right circles as long-overdue accountability for legacy media insiders who reflexively attack any effort to introduce editorial diversity into institutions they have treated as ideological property.
Jun 3, 2026
Lean Left
CBS News fired longtime 60 Minutes correspondent and former CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley one day after a confrontational exchange with new executive producer Nick Bilton.
The firing is widely interpreted as corporate consolidation gutting independent journalism at a flagship newsmagazine, part of a broader pattern of media institutions capitulating to ownership and political pressure.