WOW. The dramatics from Scott Pelley are the gift that keeps on giving! He did a sniveling sobbing sit down with the New York Times. The entire interview is ALL about him. He claims he was there to represent. Instead he insists that all the firings, including his, “murdered” his 60 Minutes family.

Jobless news veteran Scott Pelley broke down in tears as he claimed the hysterical tirade that got him fired from “60 Minutes” was a response to the “murders” of his “family” in a “Black Thursday massacre” at the show.

Pelley, 68, broke down in tears several times during an interview with the New York Times as he discussed for the first time being axed from CBS News after nearly four decades at the network.

He conceded that he had been hyperbolic to accuse new network boss Bari Weiss of murdering “60 Minutes” — just to go even further, claiming it was the staff themselves that she murdered.

You know, he totally brought all of this on himself. He positioned himself in the meeting as THE GUY who could sit there and make demands while expecting his bosses to roll over and hand him the keys. By his actions, I think he’s been doing that crap for a very long time and his former bosses were such wimps, he got away with it. 

But now, there’s a new sheriff in town. And they EXPECT better from everyone who works at CBS. Scott didn’t want to play ball. So he chose the dramatic tantrum route.

No one saw the Black Thursday massacre coming. This is our entire senior staff. Tanya Simon, our boss, she’s the first woman ever to be executive producer of “60 Minutes.” And she concluded this season with a growth in our audience of nine percent, which is unheard-of in broadcast television, and a growth of our online presence of 190 percent. Last season, we had 2.5 billion views. That’s a third of humanity! So we’re riding high.

“Black Thursday massacre.” Does he think he’s living in mob world?? 

Oh, so their ratings took a 9% uptick so that a THIRD of humanity is watching 60 Minutes?! Which means no one there is fireable? Horseshit. 

As with any company, when there is new management and new ownership, there WILL be changes. As for those who don’t want to change with the new management, here’s the door. See ya! 

What Scott refuses to acknowledge is that it was HIS actions at that meeting that were the last straw. 

According to him, he had ALL the facts correct regarding Renee Good and Alex Pretti. It was Bari Weiss who was “remembering” wrongly. 

And about four hours after our deadline, Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I’m paraphrasing. I don’t have the quote, but that’s what was communicated to me. And the other thing, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.

This is not what you see on the video. On the video, you see the officer standing slightly off the front of the car. And you clearly see Ms. Good’s wheels turned completely as far as they will go, away from the officer. But he shoots her in the head, kills her, and says something about her that I can’t repeat in polite company.

We have gone out of our way in our plan from the very beginning to show the protesters for the responsibility that they had. We had already scrubbed the video archives, looking for those scenes. Somehow that wasn’t enough for Ms. Weiss. The video showed that the officer wasn’t standing in front of the car and she wasn’t driving toward him, but that’s what the president said about that, and that’s the way she wanted it described.

Oh. So Scott Pelley is correct about the events regarding Good and Pretti, and everyone else is wrong. Especially President Trump and Bari Weiss. Therefore, zero changes were made. That certainly didn’t play well with his bosses. Especially as I’m sure Scott made his feelings abundantly clear around the studio. 

Then, in his arrogance, Scott claims he’s been in combat. 

You haven't been "in combat for this country" you total fraud @ScottPelley. Like countless other journalists I also have been to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan on assignment and never in a million years would I pretend that was "combat".
Talk about stolen valor. https://t.co/0kU9lczmZQ

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) June 7, 2026

You were a reporter hovering around the edges of combat zones. In NO WAY does that make you even a pseudo soldier! Jerk. 

Here’s something else. He literally believes that there is NO bias in journalism. 

Give me a break. I worked at Viacom/CBS (now Paramount) for over a decade. Of course, it was +90% Democrats.

Everyone knows this. Everyone.

And newsrooms in particular vote Democrat to a higher degree than Berkeley, California.

And you know what? Fine. I have lots of… https://t.co/OjwkeDfIWd

— John Papola (@JohnPapola) June 7, 2026

Pelley is totally left-wing, and his bias has been evident in many a 60 Minute episode. His arrogant dismissal of media bias during this interview speaks volumes. 

Pelley’s arrogance is on full display during that interview. He truly believes he should’ve been able to dictate the terms of his employment. And ran right into a reality buzz saw. 

One of the reasons why trust in media is so low is because many legacy journalists are completely out of touch.

You could not get away with that behavior at any run of the mill job. It is revealing to see how blind some are to that.

— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) June 7, 2026

Scott Pelley can snivel and whine all he wants about how all the firings “murdered” the 60 Minutes family. The only adults in the room are those who still work for 60 Minutes.

Feature Photo Credit: Pelley at Peabody Awards in 2013 via Flickr, cropped and modified