That's Scott Pelley, answering a question in "The Interview/Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at '60 Minutes'" (NYT).
Here's the entire interview (with a transcript at YouTube):
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"Do you think Bari Weiss needs to be removed?"/"Oh, gosh, yes. Look, she’s a lovely person. And her Free Press organization that she founded has been very successful. But television’s not her thing."
"This is like somebody walking up to me and saying, 'There’s a 747, there are 400 people on it, we need you to fly it to Paris.' I’m going to decline because I don’t have a clue. And it would have been so much better if Bari Weiss had been offered this job and said, 'Oh, that’s not for me, I don’t know how to do that.'"
That's Scott Pelley, answering a question in "The Interview/Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at '60 Minutes'" (NYT).
That's Scott Pelley, answering a question in "The Interview/Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at '60 Minutes'" (NYT).
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Scott Pelly is a rich white arrogant leftist propogandist.
He is poison. Hope he rots.
Micro Soft Now is calling - you leftist lying jackass.
it would have been so much better if Bari Weiss had been offered this job and said, 'Oh, that’s not for me, I don’t know how to do that.
…I bet Bari knows how to run a leftie propaganda arm just fine. Besides, what’s to know?
Is never shit on your former employer not a thing anymore?
I remember when 60 minutes destroyed the Apple industry and killed our family farm. It took 5 years but they halved the prices we got for the fruit we were growing and we went out of business.
They put Meryl Streep on the show and told everyone that the fresh fruit we were growing was giving them cancer.
It was a complete lie of course. Peanut Butter is more carcinogenic than Alar.
60 minutes destroyed the livelihoods of millions of Americans with lies. They are disgusting evil people and I look forward to history painting them as the corporate shill propagandists they always were.
The New York Times is also a toxic cancer sack of arrogant hot white leftist trash. Jew hating f-heads.
Poor self indulgent, self important, untalented, grossly overpaid Scott. WTF should CBS continue supporting his sorry ass?
If Bari can create an actual non-partisan news org - that will be a miracle. I hope she can.
Russia Russia Russia Pelley - an actual Russian-type Soviet stooge.
Teh plums on this clown!
Pelley doesn’t understand the first thing about life and business. The owners of CBS News hired Bari. She runs the business. She has the power to hire and fire.
And to compare running CBS news to flying a 747 is absurd in the extreme.
Pelley is an idiot. A liberal idiot.
I cant think of a story that pelley got right, can you
CBS bringing in Bari Weiss was never going to be a quiet reset. Her reputation came with her: the campus fights, the New York Times resignation, The Free Press, the constant battle against what she sees as liberal media groupthink. So when someone with that much ideological baggage is put in charge of a major legacy newsroom, people are obviously going to wonder what the real agenda is. The current turmoil at CBS feels less like an unexpected crisis and more like the natural result of that decision. You cannot hire a culture-war figure and then be surprised when the culture war walks straight into the building. CBS did not just appoint an editor; it imported a fight.
Mr Ellison surely wanted a circus. He got one.
Shorter NYT: Person who was fired thinks person who fired them should have been fired instead.
Some people would do themselves a great favor by just shutting up, but it's always the people who can't do that.
Daszak mcbride every other hack
The internet informs me that Scott Pelley is 68 years old so that means he qualifies for social security so he'll be all right.
Scott Pelley crashed his own career. Bari Weiss didn't crash it.
It's perfectly in character for Pelley to think his absence from the show is a tragedy comparable to a 747 going down with 400 souls on board. In reality it's more like one of those old movies where they throw all the dead weight out the plane to keep it flying.
You need to fire the whole lot then start over
I was my own boss, and I fired myself, or at least refused to pay me. I'm still permitted to show up, but no check comes. Like most others, I agree that my boss underappreciated me, and the guy was just an ass, but I miss him and the personal affection he made me feel when I worked for him. I never really like how he would follow me into the bathroom though. That was creepy.
Scott Pelley wanted to retire but the self important do not to that.
He picked a fight with the boss so he could get fired and be a martyr for “freedom of the press.” For about another week he pop up on shows to say things, then everyone will forget about him.
’There’s a 747, there are 400 people on it, we need you to fly it to Paris.'
Pelly seems to have trouble verbally distinguishing the degree of difficulty between flying on a plane and piloting a plane.
Ted Baxter lives.
Does anyone think Pelly would not fire someone who did that to him if he was the boss? Of course he would, and probably for a lot less.
Whereas as 60 minutes was like Boeing management
Nobody who runs a news organization could pilot a 747, but a lot of pilots could run a news organization.
This article misses the story
On May 10th, CBS aired an interview with Bibi booked personally by Bari herself.
The real scandal is how Bari got it: she went behind Lesley Stahl’s back and let a foreign head of state choose his own interviewer like he was ordering off a room service menu. Netanyahu rejected Stahl and hand-picked Major Garrett because he wanted a softer ride and CBS corporate gave it to him just to secure the "exclusive."
When Pelley stood up and called this exactly what it was, they fired him.
Who Bari Weiss actually is? Why was she picked by Larry and David Ellison. Weiss is not good for news: too close to Israel.
But don’t worry this whole business will be restructured in a few years: too much debt for declining cash flows.
I see Bari Weiss as Lou Grant and Scott Pelley as Ted Baxter. Never mind that everybody but Ted got fired by the new boss.
I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude. If Bari can manage the strengths of the existing legacy and effect appropriate changes and improvements, that would be a great thing. If it's all "baby with the bathwater," it might be more mixed, etc.
It will be interesting to watch.
Bari was installed to shut down certain voices, and those voices are kind of mad about it. Just like TikTok was bought to shut down the Gaza coverage, CBS was bought by the same people to undercut criticism of Trump, a lot of which, to be honest was unfair, like Colbert. Trump sold his soul for this kind of political help.
Pelley thinks the Chi Com-Castro Soviet leaders of the Democrap party can remove her - or should.
IM Tay(D) The installed troll who inserts his Israel-hate obsession, non-stop.
Gaza's are mostly a death cult.
There are fifty minutes of lies on every 60 Minutes episode, not including "and" and "the." (I stole that.)
"So when someone with that much ideological baggage is put in charge of a major legacy newsroom, people are obviously going to wonder what the real agenda is..."
As the owners of the business and being responsible to the share holders to return a profit....the real agenda is to stop losing money. Keep growing viewer base and advertising revenue. If it means changing the direction (political bias) of the entity to do so....that is the agenda.
Television is a business. Businesses require keeping up with the market and being flexible to change. If it also requires staffing changes to do this....so be it.
Bilton was a high profile hire, brought in to make-over 60 Minutes. Pelley chose to directly challenge him in front of the entire staff in the first week. Anyone who understands corporate America knows the Bilton had no choice but to fire Pelley. It was a corporate career “death-by-cop”.
Bari Weiss was appointed by the owner of the business, to run the business. He gets to be Right or Wrong, because he's the owner.
Scott Pelley climbed his own ego to object to the Facts of Life, announcing it far and wide and in public. I think he was imagining that his future career trajectory is toward the moon, but I think he's slowly recognizing that he's launched himself from the starting gate of a large ski jump - and he doesn't know how to ski.
"The real scandal is how Bari got it: she went behind Lesley Stahl’s back and let a foreign head of state choose his own interviewer like he was ordering off a room service menu. Netanyahu rejected Stahl and hand-picked Major Garrett because he wanted a softer ride and CBS corporate gave it to him just to secure the 'exclusive.'"
Still beating this horse? It's not a scandal -- newsmakers can choose whom they sit down with for an interview. And is Leslie Stahl her own cartel at 60 Minutes? Where is it written that any big interviews must be assigned to her?
I think both DBQ (Hi, DBQ!) and Money Manager are making good, practical, business points.
Regards,
Lori (reader_iam)
Leslie Stahl(D) is a known leftist hack and a known liar.
Islamic males and Nazi white leftists have common cause.
https://instapundit.com/802044/
Pelley thinks the Chi Com-Castro Soviet leaders of the Democrap party can remove her - or should.
…those powers are busy helping to confiscate the chicago bears so they don’t move to indiana…
DBQ is correct of course.
To the left, losing money is never a problem as long as leftists are spreading fear, hate, lies and propaganda for their party.
Thank you Lori rcommal. Business is what I do (retired now and only have to manage our own business )
People don't understand the hard choices that have to be made. Calling your business a "legacy" meaning it should never change, preserved in amber..... is a disastrous move. Keeping up with the times, the market is cruical. Othewise we would all be riding around in horse drawn carriages.
I know it is hard on those who feel that they are "the legacy" and find out that they are replaceable ..it is what it is. If Bari is making the wrong moves then ....she is out as well.
"If it's all "baby with the bathwater," it might be more mixed, etc."
If that was the agenda, it would have happened already.
Ya know, I hate them all, Weiss included. They are lying Commie scum. But there is something especially repellent about this Scott Pelley thing. If his head gets any bigger, he will float away.
“ The real scandal is how Bari got it: she went behind Lesley Stahl’s back and let a foreign head of state choose his own interviewer like he was ordering off a room service menu.”
Thr only difference between this and Dem politicians is the Dem politicians get to pick the questions.
As the owners of the business and being responsible to the share holders to return a profit....the real agenda is to stop losing money
…the change that grossly distorts this idea is controlling shareholders like Blackrock and State Street and few others that demand companies make the leftie agenda their top priority. These are the people who bring you Mulvaney marketing and Delta Airlines Summers of Hell. They care less about profit and more about propaganda disguised and news and entertainment, no matter the cost…
Remember when the NYT interviewed the rodeo clown fired by Obama to get suggestions for reorganizing the shitty Cabinet assembled by that commie chick who lived in the White House with the Obamas? Or all the flag officers fired by Obama that were then treated as heroes and asked their opinion on every defense matter to counter the Obama narrative?
No? Because only fired leftists by virtue of their failures are qualified in the DNC Media eye to opine on how to fix all the shit they inevitably ruin.
747 is the wrong analogy obviously. horse and buggy store is the better analogy.
"I was not familiar with [Bari Weisss's] name." Live in a bubble much, Scott Pelley?
The more he talks, the more he accidentally explains why CBS News and its products became crap.
Scott Pelley got his feelings hurt? Sad.
Remember how Elon Musk gave Bari access to the “Twitter Files” exposing past moderation practices? Some people still hate her for working with Musk.
“But,…” says the CBS News advocate “ CBS has lots of video cameras. you need cameras to broadcast the news.”
(yeah the world is overflowing with cameras, thanks)
“but you need a network - CBS has a network”
(Yeah, the world has plenty of bandwidth and access, thanks.)
“But you need contacts and connections to people in power and in the know.”
(yeah, you need them but they don’t need you, so when they give you access, you can be sure they are playing you for something.)
“But you need experts.”
(first of all you’re not the experts. Secondly, I can put my camera in front of the face of experts just as easily as you can. My brother or my cousin is just as likely to be an expert somebody you find in Manhattan. The democracy will run just fine with experts talking through other channels and the average person just voting on what they think.)
“but we have a world-class op-ed department!!!!”
(Yeah. We know.)
Ron Burgandy has thoughts.
at the Insurance Company i worked IT for, someone asked me if i thought my new boss should be removed..
I said YES, and that i thought they were out of their league..
However, that person then reminded me that it was NOT my decision
and that if i had a problem with it, i should quit
btw the person that asked me was my reflection in the mirror.
i NEVER said Any Thing bad about boss to Any One else..
because i enjoyed getting a paycheck
Reading the interview Pelley comes off as very leftwing, very biased, and not very bright. IOW, another Dan Rather. He's shocked when Weiss says he and the 60 minutes crews are "Biased" but offers no defense except "She didn't have any polling data to back that up"(!)
He says Weiss cant 'handle a global organization like CBS news" as if its some complicated massive Corporation producing ICBMs or AI data centers. Its just a news organization. CBS put out the exact same stories as ABC and NBC.
He blathers on and on about how Weiss tried to "interject falsehoods" into his ICE story but I skimmed it twice and still don't have a clear idea of what the "lies" were or why Weiss wanted to put them in. I think Pelley just exaggerating and trying to be a drama queen.
And of course, he's full of contempt and dislike for POTUS Donald J. Trump. But hey don't call him biased!
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
This article misses the story
The real scandal is .. head of state choose his own interviewer..
now tell us about 60 minutes Hard Hitting exposees of Hilary! or Biden?
We just had a MTP interview today, where Trump stopped the interview with the NBC reporterette because she was so biased and was "fact-checking him" aka "arguing with him" over everything. I think Trump wants the MSM to be unfair to him, because it solidifies his position with his voters, and shows the MSM to be biased and far-left. Which they are.
Pelley is a loser who is useful to NYT to smear Bari Weiss because: As a former NYT editor she know it is a partisan rag; Her presence at CBS News threatens to counterbalance NYT’s bias somewhat; She supports Israel in opposition to the burgeoning antisemitism of the Democrat left. It isn’t about Pelley or Weiss. It is about the shitshow that is the Democrat left and their mediaswine.
I liked the interview because it makes it clear the Pelley wasn't out there doing his own stories. He had a boss Tanya Something who was riding herd on him, supervising and approving everything. And a whole team of producers who assemble the footage, do the interviews, and draft the script.
LIke Rather on the NG fontgate story, Pelley often was just the "actor" who goes on camera and reads the script. Other times, he got involved in the process, did the final edits on script, and did interviews where he read the producers questions.
I think that's why he's unable to clearly describe Wiess' "falsehoods" - no doubt some producer told him about. He didn't actually get involved in the details.
The Gatekeepers always want a veto on who is allowed into their tidy club.
Pelley never mention the Killian documents when he interviewed Pres. Bush, did he?
Pelley's farewell tour will forever cement his reputation as a vicious dishonest propagandist. Those who celebrate him deserve the same fate.
CBS is in transition, everyone and, great Scott, Pelley, have a pronouncement on its future.
Does CBS identify as the masculine or feminine gender?
Pelley: "We certainly didn't believe [that we were biased]."
Yeah, Scott, that's why you had to go.
Scott Pelley is asked if he expected to be fired after his confrontation with new CBS leadership:
Pelley: "Oh, gosh. Furthest thing from my mind. It hadn't occurred to me….Some reporter I turned out to be. I just didn't connect the dots."
What is it about TV journalism? Does that career path attract neurotic shitheads, or does it create them? How can such a miniscule demographic contain so many mendacious, morally depraved poltroons? If Scott Pelley was one quarter as intelligent as he evidently thinks he is, or ten percent as honest as anyone he chooses to "investigate", he wouldn't be associated with CBS News.
RC, thanks for the heads up on today’s interview. Your musings on Trump sound plausible too. Someday he’ll get credit for his amazing ability to use the hostile media to his advantage. Over and over again.
To say, "That person isn't qualified for that job because I know that I couldn't do that job," totally undermines your argument. If you don't know how to do that job then you're also not qualified to say who is or isn't qualified to do that job.
The answer is yes
“ What is it about TV journalism? Does that career path attract neurotic shitheads, or does it create them?”
A buddy of mine was briefly in local TV news (not on camera). He says the only people who can afford to work in it are trust fund kids and looking good on camera was more important than brains. This is the pool that feeds the national networks.
Is the liberal elite completely populated by hysterical 8th Grade mean girls?
It sure seems like it.
The sequence here is revealing.
The new CBS management didn’t fire Scott Pelley in the first round of mass layoffs at 60 Minutes, which at the business level means they judged they could make more money off keeping Pelley than buying out his contract.
Scott Pelley in turn judged that he didn’t want to work for the New 60 Minutes unless they paid him a substantial signing bonus. The kicker was that he didn’t want cash, he wanted assurances that the new management could have given but didn't want to.
Anderson Cooper, by contrast, left 60 Minutes a few weeks ago citing family reasons. His may have been the classier exit, but didn’t get any notice by Althouse.
"Still beating this horse? It's not a scandal."
Of course not. No Democrat ever agrees to be interviewed by adversaries. Republicans often have to, and Trump is the only leader who does it regularly.
What would be a scandal would be 60 minutes employees getting to pick their bosses to match their own bias, which they got used to, I guess.
Bari is no conservative by a long shot.
Bari is the future. Scott is the past.
The free press is decidely meh
NYT: Hey, Scott. Surprisingly, some people are saying you're not dishonest or a complete douche nozzle.
Pelley: Oh yeah? Well I'll show them!
[Yawn] Scott Pelley is a loooonnnggg way from being the first example of on-air “talent” to confuse the audience for his show with people who want to watch him, personally, as opposed to the audience watching the show to see news coverage.
Before there was Scott Pelley there was Dan Rather, and there are other names long forgotten before him.
what she sees as liberal media groupthink
At minimum, you should have said "what she experienced as liberal media groupthink."
Me, I would've just gone with "liberal media groupthink," since it's so obviously present.
Let’s revisit another interview taken by Pelley in 2017:
Mike Cernovich: She had a seizure and froze up walking into her motorcade that day caught by a citizen journalist.
Scott Pelley: Did you, well, she had pneumonia. I mean –
Mike Cernovich: How do you know?
Scott Pelley: Well, because that’s what was reported.
Mike Cernovich: By whom? Who told you that?
Scott Pelley: Well, the campaign told us that.
Mike Cernovich: Why would you trust a campaign?
Quaestor, embrace the power of “and”
Odds on was Pelley been set up to challenge his Bosses
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