"Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt... a performative display of hostility...."

"Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you."

Said Nick Bilton, "60 Minutes" executive producer, quoted in "Scott Pelley fired from ‘60 Minutes’ after confrontation with new boss/The termination marks the latest shake-up during a tumultuous period for the iconic newsmagazine" (WaPo).

What did Pelley say at that meeting?: "[Bari Weiss is] murdering ‘60 Minutes.... She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that. She has no qualifications for her job.... What qualifies you [Bilton] to be in this position?... You have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the ‘Evening News’ have been catastrophic. So why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?"

She does not love this place — How important is it that the insiders to a show love it? That could lead you awry. Outsiders were brought in to look at it critically — not through the eyes of love — and perhaps to put journalistic principles above catering to insiders who were enjoying the lovable place they had built and maintained. Maybe those erstwhile outsiders are actually terrible, and they are reshaping the place into something that suits them and ruins it for the longtime insiders. But Bilton is charged with running the place, and Pelley chose to insist on getting fired.