Scott Pelley Says CBS Told Him to 'Inject Falsehoods'

Randy75

Courage is Scott Pelley. bsky.app/profile/rand...

Kelley64

Scott Pelley - a class act. 37yr career of professionalism & integrity ended by people without 1/10th of Mr Pelley’s character.

Bright Bart41

I really believe that decades from now this clash with Pelley and Weis will be seen as a watershed moment for independent journalism in America. Now whether the outcome is good or evil, that I don’t know.

Formerly Optimistic Colts Fan40

That was clearly not written by ChatGPT.

Jim of Pennsyltucky39

@60minutes.bsky.social @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy CBS and 60 Minutes epitomize why the media can no longer be trusted. It's owned and controlled by Oligarchs. As is our government which also cannot be trusted.

Kali Hays26

CBS management now 1) politicizing and controlling previously unbiased reporting 2) turning an investigative news effort into PR 3) generally incompetent, making that everyone else's problem 4) firing anyone who dares take issue with any of this Why they're pretending otherwise is beyond me

gvernon.bsky.social24

Scott Pelley is a real one. Thank you Scott.

tweecee.bsky.social20

Scott, I am appalled at what is happening at CBS and especially at 60 Minutes as well as the cancellation of Stephen Colbert. I will no longer be watching CBS.

Ramona Schindelheim19

Thank you @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for sharing.

John Adler19

the Scott Pelley/Nick Bilton thing is like "what if we did the Kendrick/Drake feud but it's just press releases?"

AmyAlexCA18

Sounds familiar. Yours Truly, a Black Journo who has endured SAME.

mjk4mj.bsky.social16

Larry Ellison funded Devin Nunes when Nunes sued numerous news organizations and journalists (to harass them and try to bankrupt them). Larry Ellison is evil scum, He will also destroy CNN. He previously gave $1 billion to a Nazi to destroy Twitter. 2019: www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...

morrisgirl.bsky.social14

Cue Cheeto’s pathetic comment in 3, 2, 1. Edward R Murrow would be aghast at what is going on. As are sane Americans.

Dan Davis12

Incredible irony that the news show that proved to network execs all those years ago that news could be a profit center is being dismantled because bootlicking is now quite literally more important to those executives than profit.

Peter Butler11

this is how you do it make them fire you, and then quit

Clark-Salt Lake Snark11

If you’re upset about what’s happening at CBS, don’t just complain. Take action. I put together a simple guide for viewers who want to do something constructive. The most effective activism is often boring: The email. The phone call. The canceled subscription. The letter.

mettfloyd.bsky.social9

Good on ya, Scott Pelley

rob9

Colbert and Pelley should chat on a Twitch stream.

LouFromBoston9

CBS is done. RIP. The Ellison’s killed it. Everyone boycott CBS. Pay it forward.

donnayoungdc8

The right-wing billionaires like the Ellisons, Bezos & Zuckerberg are as much mobsters as the insane "reality" TV con man they put into OUR White House. Americans MUST stop being a silly people & wise up & demand better for our nation before the oligarchs enslave us all. bsky.app/profile/donn...

K🤦‍♀️𝙑8

I applaud the integrity he displayed and stuck to, when being pushed to capitulate like so many organizations, and individuals, who have decided that to bow to a current time authoritarian, was their best course.

JoanieP17

Walter Cronkite is rolling over in his grave. CBS will go down the drain soon.

Debaurah Alice7

Honest question: Why the hell can't people say "lies?" Drives me completely bonkers.

marcosantana6

This is the end of @cbsnews.com if there’s evidence of them deliberately creating false news stories @jaketapper.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social

WhatIsThisAnn6

Scott Pelley is a real journalist. Suck it Jake Tapper.

Rudely Van Gelder6

“...the collapse of values at the top..." Their intentional destruction.

yak18pilot.bsky.social6

Everything Trump (or his troglodytes) touches dies…

Sandy Lyle5

Ellison’s plan working on schedule

David Petroff5

The War against Competence strikes again.

ruthmyrtlez.bsky.social5

Sounds like Page 6 has taken over 60 Minutes. They are now the digital National Enquirer.

Emmy1085

I almost never watched 60 minutes. But I respected it. I trusted it. That's over.

Matt Zivich5

Telling it like it is, a pure class act.

gcm5.bsky.social4

Thank you Scott Pelley for standing up for you, your colleagues and for us, the devoted followers of 60 Minutes, the place where truth, knowledge and a better understanding of life existed for 58 years. I will continue to boycott CBS.

Delbert Grady Seasons4

The Insider is being rereleased with the title The Good Old Days

donnayoungdc4

Scott Pelley is a good man. The right-wing extremist Ellisons bought @cbsnews.com with the goal of killing it - and journalism. The Ellisons are billionaires & can afford to lose money. Their purchases of Paramount & Warner are about controlling the information Americans & the rest of the world get.

JN Hall4

Let this be a lesson to employers: Never pay anyone enough that they can quit

Billy Juggernaut Antifa4

“…I’m Ben Shapiro, I’m Jack Posobiec, I’m Laura Loomer, I’m Nick Fuentes…these stories and more, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

Jan Chamier4

Bravo Scott Pelley, and how very sad all this destruction of decency is.

Laura4

Oh he’s out for blood. Good for him and his attorneys, and good luck Bari, you dumb bitch

loisincolorado.bsky.social4

Would love to see 60 minutes rise up in another iteration, like the Phoenix from the ashes. Just because they are no longer at CBS, the brilliant and talented journalists editors, producers and others should create their own show. Any billionaires with integrity willing to help?

delProfundo of antifa 🍉3

I guess we now know why not one reporter covering the Whitehouse has ever stood up to trumps abuse.

Election_Every3

#Pelley #Colbert STAND WITH THEM! #BoycottCBS FOREVER! #BoycottParamount FOREVER! Show the Ellisons that we will not support their MAGA agenda of censorship and misinformation! Take their ratings down to the basement!

Mr. Snoofers3

If Pelley and the other ex-employees started up a new program called 3600 Seconds, would they get sued?

painesvillain 🏴3

Alt. Text. Please. Why is this such a huge ask on this site still??

🍁Bandita Incognita🍁3

CORRECTION: There has never been anything in the WORLD like 60 Minutes. In the 1970s when I was a kid, the entirety of metropolitan Toronto felt like it shut down and fell silent for an hour each Sunday night....

rebelrrr.bsky.social3

Oldest trick in the book. When the facts don't support your agenda, change the facts.

Neal Peart's successor: apparently not!2

Probably the last moment of "class" to be associated with CBS, unless they cover the Ellisons and Bari Weiss being perp walked into CECOT, sans due process, never to be heard from again.

guy-montag.bsky.social2

Murrow, Cronkite, Wallace and Rooney would be proud

Jerrett Snyder🇺🇸🇺🇦2

Scott Pelley wins this simply because he did the right thing, calling out incompetence, inexperience, and the cow towing that CBS has done because of the occupant of the White House.

Chs Yank2

I love the fact that this outlet makes sure everyone who copies it will get the fact it came from them. Only problem there are 1000s of this letter in the wild with no imprint. They did not write it so why claim ownership?

jane57lisa2

Pelley statement: "New management has instructed me to INJECT FALSEHOODS AND BIAS into a politically sensitive story. I've been told to include assertions that are unverified."

k.gordon2

This isn’t just Pelley’s fight. This is America’s fight. We cannot sit around and let them take us out one by one. We need to fight like our children’s future depends upon it… because it does. We cannot let the stupid and the cynical win.

Charlie Nelson2

This is what integrity and courage look like. A brave honest example for young journalists and seasoned veterans alike. Please heed and follow Mr. Pelley's example.

Millie, or Mills if we’re friends2

Well we knew he was leaving otherwise he’d have kept silent

Eliot Higgins60

You can support Bellingcat here if you still want media who holds the powerful to account and doesn't bend the knee to authoritarians www.bellingcat.com/donate

profpolisci.bsky.social56

MAGA has gotten its way for over 16 months and has been a colossal failure. Now it NEEDS media bias to manage the fallout of its dismal performance. 60 Minutes is gone. CBS is gone. Now just zombie versions of what had been built over years and sad monuments to Trump’s failure.

Pfeifer™️34

Scott Pelley needs no cape! ~ ERM

Billy Juggernaut Antifa29

One of those rare cases when being terminated looks good on a resume.

Nancy GGG28

Thanks for sharing. I rarely watch CBS. Now, never, not even for local news. Trust lost is rarely regained.

antoinettan4.bsky.social25

Thank you Scott Pelley for showing what real journalists stand for.

Liz Loveland23

Thank you for including alt text; I looked for a post of this with alt text earlier but couldn't find any

Lea21

I can't help but notice the difference in statements. Pelley's praises his colleagues and talks about the news team and their integrity while Bilton just whines and talks about himself.

joyllwynonn.bsky.social19

That is so sad, so dispiriting.

koos167.bsky.social18

Always shocks me when they don't name names. We know who "management" is. Make sure the future does too. Make sure she knows her name will forever be synonymous with talentless lickspittle.

Bill Jensen13

It isn’t so much a statement as a eulogy

DeepChad12

I have such contempt for David Ellison. He hired that blowhard Weiss to turn 60 Min into Temu Newsmax.

Lestan Xero12

Oh it gets worse before it gets worse: radaronline.com/p/cbs-eyes-j...

Laurie11

Unimaginable that his demise would come at the hands of his own government. Shameful what CBS has become. A vile pile of flesh has ruined this country while equally vile people in positions to stop him let it happen & enable him. So much destruction in all facets of life. Love & light must win!!!

FreePalestine11

“I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.”

Mike Rogers10

Class act. Something Trump and MAGA have no conception of.

Shake Tiller10

CBS is dead to me.

The Whatnow9

Now in the 60 Minutes time slot:

uniongal.bsky.social7

He’s right, she’s murdering 60minutes but he didn’t go far enough, she’s murdering CBS News entirely all for some purity ideology that benefits Trump and GOP. NBC or ABC should snap up the entire 60minutes crew that have been terminated and start a new show with all of them.

okay7.bsky.social7

Weiss, etc. are building a propaganda program. Moving forward, there’s no reason to watch them.

Beth Hollihan7

My entire life has been 60 minutes on Sunday nights. Waiting for football to end and 60 minutes to start. Breaks my heart. All the best to Mr. Pelley in his next chapter.

paulamcaughan.bsky.social6

Lesley Stahl needs to quit. I’ll never watch 60 minutes again! Will Jane Pauley be fired too? Walter Cronkite is rolling over in his grave.

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨5

C-B-S = Censored Broadcast System.🤐

Ewan Sutherland5

This is the Project 2025 vision of broadcasting, total support for Trump and his cronies

julesp1.bsky.social4

He has wrecked everything we hold as tradition the Kennedy Center, the White House, 60 Minutes, it’s all just burned down for one petty asshole.

CindyWish4

Terrible. It will become 60 MAGA Minutes. I’m done with it, which is sad because I’ve been watching it all my life. Great stories, great reporting. Everything Trump touches dies.

MindyRD4

Every single American needs to learn to be media and truth savvy. We, as a nation, will fail quickly unless they do. Be in the fight for the truth, for American democracy. James Madison, 4th POTUS, defined freedom of the press as "one of the great bulwarks of liberty"

brightandbeautiful.bsky.social4

Sad, but the time has come to stop watching CBS and watch a network fail. It needs to fail.

Flemming Madsen 🇩🇰3

This is the dilemma: how long do you stay and fight to see if it can be saved and when do you realize that it is pointless and leave?

Goth or Ostro-goth3

What would be interesting is for all the real 60 people to quit and coalesce on a podcast or video platform outside of CBS. Let Weiss and Bilton show their extraordinary talents on the broadcast.

gracegeorge23.bsky.social3

This is fascism folks. 😔

PNN3

Fire Bari Weiss and her minions

RepugnantCon 2

60 Minutes played footsie with a dictator, and now they're GOBSMACKED when their network goes up in flames...

Lord Farquaad22

What is stopping ABC, NBC, MSNOW from hiring all of the fired 60 minutes staff and releasing 60 Minutes under a new name? Genuinely asking.

802nancy.bsky.social18

History should be VERY KIND to Scott Pelley. He had the guts to call people out. Thats a very scarce commodity in the current media world right now. Bury CBS!

Marion10

Mr Pelley is an actual journalist, telling the truth that other MS media won’t do. We all knew what was going on with the magot purchase of CBS, good to see Pelley calling them out.

Cajun Antifa9

Republikkkans are seditious insurrectionist traitors who belong in their own nazICE kkkamps for deportation tribunals and moderate democrats are flirting with Vichy status. History is watching all of us. Democrats were warned about theocratic fascism decades ago. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

stillwandering2025.bsky.social8

Was done with CBS (and PAYING for Paramount+) long before this. But the Pelley thing puts the "never, never again" nail in the CBS coffin for me.

Valvefreak7

Boycotting CBS doesn’t matter. Trump decided it must fold so they appointed a scheming incompetent b. She’ll make sure the whole of CBS becomes irrelevant. Just as the pedo convict intended.

azonie.bsky.social7

Respectable journalists should avoid the “Bootlickers Ball” (Correspondents Dinner) rescheduled to honor Trump.

The Book Prof 🇺🇦6

I’m just done with 60 Minutes. I’ve been a loyal viewer since it hit the airwaves, but it has lost its heart. . . And brain!

catch301.bsky.social6

I’ve been boycotting CBS since they decided to cut Colbert

murderedbybluesky.bsky.social4

Messaging of the Century: Nothing is sacred, everything is permitted.

dem6400.bsky.social4

Already done. The only show I liked to watch on CBS was Stephen Colbert. That final show was the last time I will ever watch CBS. I canceled Paramount+ as well.

Christopher Maher3

If you continue to watch the show, older white centrist dems, I’m looking at YOU (not the least bit surprising the same people who cant cancel their WAPO or NYT subscriptions) YOU-ARE-THE-PROBLEM.

bob-fisher.bsky.social3

A couple of points: Scott Pelley was brilliant. Although he had no editorial control or ability to reveal political propagandizing of their journalism in a 60 Minutes feature, he was able to use CBS to reveal he'd been attempted to be manipulated. In a way that reached even a bigger audience.

sageboomer.bsky.social3

It's up to the younger generations. Those starting college and those still in high school. They are witnessing the destruction of America and the contributions of the current treasonous media. It's a damn shame. It's their future and they will respond. I have faith in all of them!!

madlibwasp.bsky.social3

All because Trump can’t handle criticism or disagreement.

The Scythe Bearer2

#IAmAntifascist #IAmAntifa I just wish to live long enough to feel anything but shame.

Russ DiBello2

Nick Bilton attempted to spin that all he was trying to do as the new head of "60 Minutes" was to be as professional and innovative a journalist as he'd always been. His rage at Scott Pelley was because Pelley had pre-empted all that BS and (correctly) labeled his very presence there as sabotage.

Billy Juggernaut Antifa2

When you destroy the single most successful and respected show in television history it’s glaringly obvious that you shouldn’t be in a position of leadership. Wrecking 60 Minutes takes effort.

💙Solid BlueArizonan🌵2

WEISS IS BLATANT LIAR & CBS HAS LOST EVERY LAST OUNCE OF CREDIBILITY UNDER THIS NEW TRUMP LOVIN FASCIST NETWORK REGIME #BoycottCBS

Mountain girl2

And Sharyn Alfonsi. She started this ball rolling. Would not let her tell the true story about CECOT. #ScottPelley

owens-kd1.bsky.social2

And now we boycott CBS!!

Chuck McCullagh2

And the advertisers that "grace" that screen.

FilmAlicia2

Give this man a “Profiles in Courage Award,” along with Jim Acosta and Terry Moran and other real journalists who have quit or been fired rather than go along with the regime.

That Nice Lotion Lady - Courtney K.33

Now HE? HE can write a bestseller. Book tour. You betcha.

Kristina21

Why have we stopped using the word LIES?

SoloSojourner20

Shocking but not surprising. Scott Pelley has done what many can’t or won’t. He put his livelihood at risk for truth, for journalism, for the Republic. His actions, while not what would typically be called heroic, make him a hero nonetheless. #60Minutes #JournalisticIntegrity #CBS

DemVi18

Scott Pelley is a man with integrity! A real reporter! Not some propaganda spreading glory seeker like Fox and CBS.

DrDinD.bsky.social17

Bravo Scott Pelley F the Ellisons

AcquariDan13

60 Minutes Australia -Untethered from the Trump Administration or any political party - No 'one single' owner -Real, Unfiltered, Unbias Journalism -Most Watched Current Affairs Program in Australia -Will continue to 'bring it' while it's American colleagues can't!! youtu.be/IKcbm0AVRPc?...

Dr Robin9

I look forward to Scott Pelley’s next chapter. I will watch whatever he decides to promote. I’m moved by his unwavering commitment to the truth.

Handsome Gollum9

The bad part is, it creates an outcry mainly on the left. By the end of the week, it has been forgotten in the constant stream of BS in the news cycle. And, Weiss will continue her quest of silencing unwanted reporting.

wendontlie.bsky.social8

I wish Scott's statement had a full page in the New York Times.

Melissa Jo Peltier8

The tell-all book will be lit.

Morbidly a Beast ↗️7

One of the competing networks needs to just hire the whole 60 Minutes team and recreate the show with a new name in the same time slot. The first segment could be an expose on Bari Weiss. *and don't paper over that she's actually an Israeli operative.

ioventi.bsky.social6

Scott Pelley is a profile in courage.

WILLIAM STLUCIA😎5

Well, I do believe it's about time for him to write a tell all book

KarenMoonGoddess5

Good for him. What is happening to the press - CBS in particular - is unconstitutional & against everything the United States stands for. #ImpeachTrump

steve3797.bsky.social5

Before Ronny Ray-Gun it was Illegal to LIE and Spread Propaganda over the airwaves ..

Cindy Aitch4

STATEMENT OF SCOTT PELLEY Shown in the above👆post, and read by Jen Psaki #MSNOW “The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless … ALT text in 2 pics:

lpetty822.bsky.social3

Everything Trump (and his minions) touch turns to crap. CBS is a shell of its former self. Good for Pelley for standing his ground. They will all be missed❤️

Trout Fisher3

Little by little Bari Weiss is getting it done. Say goodbye to the best news show ever.

PiecedeResister3

The Ellisons and Bari Weiss are trying to turn CBS News and 60 Minutes into FoxNews—Tumpaganda TV. They wanted to do it quietly, before anyone noticed. Scott Pelley has exposed their plot and burned it to the ground.

PeaceSeeker3

I'm sorry but this isn't the least bit surprising.

204uni.bsky.social2

#WHCA boycott the sham Trump Dinner celebration.

jmcardinalsfan.bsky.social2

CBS has history of burying the truth and cratering to corporations and govt youtu.be/P-_ZdJxgwcU?...

wendontlie.bsky.social2

Scott Pelley is a giant in his statement; truth to power. And he's right when he said the new idiots in charge have murdered 60 Minutes. CBS is just an empty shell. To paraphrase Mr. Wonderful: CBS, you are dead to me.

GM2

CBS will be left with a bunch of zombies. If liberal minded people drop it, then its death is imminent

ihellaloveberkeley2

Get him speaking out everywhere please.

Protector 57632

Weiss is turning CBS into TASS 2.0

p2

For literally decades, "60 Minutes" was part of my Sunday routine. I knew I could trust the info I was getting,so much so. that it became my Monday classroom routine.Ten or 15 minutes of each of my classes were given over to the programs' news from the previous night.I no longer assign nor watch it.

ConteZero2

Colbert & co should build some alternative media.

Mary Lou Mintz2

Bet the tea will be spilt!!

jmc5

Wow: "The veteran producer also referenced the recent ousting of London bureau chief Claire Day. Owens said that Day arranged for visas for a CBS News team to enter Iran, but the idea was nixed by the higher-ups in New York because it was a 'bad look.'” How does snitty Bilton justify this?!

Raoulhubris4

Reporting from a war zone is a bad look for CBS? I suggest embedding like all the sycophantic media during Iraq and Afghanistan. Make your media part of the “team”.

Vince Wade News2

Let’s repeat the success of the Hulu cancellations after ABC tried to dump Jimmy Kimmel. Massive subscription cancellations brought Disney/ABC to its knees. Do the same to Skydance by cancelling Paramount +. Boycott CBS 24/7, too. Urge others to do the same. bsky.app/profile/vinc...

We the North2

The Tiffany Network has now become the trailer park network. Very sad to see the death of a once great institution. The home of Murrow, Cronkite, Sevareid and many more.

Jim Rockford24

There’s a new media company waiting to be built with all these free agents @thebulwark.com

The Penguinicity 🐧20

Note to Jake Tapper: Scott Pelley is and will always be a million times the journalist he wishes to be. Mr. Pelley’s reputation in the field remains intact, he is an institution. Meanwhile Tapper erodes his further every time he opens his mouth.

kswaggest.bsky.social6

Thats a whole lot of copium. Dude tried to act like everything is fine and that CBS will be fine. They are FUBAR at this point and for good reason. Fuck them and Paramount. Pirating all their shit has never felt so good

Jeri Westerson6

They would have fired Walter Cronkite were he still alive, because their job was to destroy CBS and they did.

brianprend2025.bsky.social5

I will boycott 60 minutes and the NFL on CBS. The NFL has a few months to figure this out. If their solution involves CBS, I won’t watch.

PT4

Tapper is taped out. He is out of his league.

Matt Leeds3

CBS & 60 Mins Is Dead! Bari Weiss Killed It. WEISS Is a Disgusting Insane Sociopath Zionist Fanatic BARI WEISS Works For The Ellison’s & Israel! She’s a Puppet & Loyal Servant CBS is now a Propaganda Machine For The FELON’s Fascist Regime Under Weiss The Propagandist It’s a Full On Maga Network

David Walker2

Fuck Jake Tapper. Paid Clown posing as a journalist.

🦋Julie Christine🦋💙🌈❄️🌊🫘2

Jake should be called Spam.

Bud Grant Green2

They should've called him Scotty Stupid Anecdote.

CaryJo2

So much reverence they called him by his actual name?!??

spacecadetty🇨🇦2

Jake Tapper, the new Wolf Blitzer of I'm an American journalist and have so many talking points I don't listen to who i'm interviewing. Seriously watch dum Wolf ask a question the "interviewee" answered already.Both are not serious people.😂🍻🇨🇦

Ezbluze2

tapper can eat a bag of shit after what he did to handsome Joe!

We need more Shermans.4

People like Bari Weiss are demons in human form, they only lie, ruin and destroy things to the detriment of society.

Thomas 🇺🇦4

Pelley told Bilton, a former technology journalist and filmmaker with no traditional broadcast news experience, that his qualifications for the position were “slender.”

Joseph3

They’re purposely destroying society and everyone except you is letting them do it.

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Like it was Fox News or Newsmax - that's despicable!

Tammy2

Ironic. There’s no overstating the debacle at 60 minutes. Consider the integrity and courage we’ve seen from Scott Pelley who lost his job of over 40 years of distinguished journalism while OUR elected representatives have capitulated to Trump; staying silent to keep the jobs they refuse to do.

CubbieBear724 ✌️😷💉2

Wow! So blatant. They really don’t care. Traitors! All of them.

Wendi McClure2

Total bullshit that this regime is absolutely destroying our democracy and country, just as fast as they can! I hate this!

sgw73072.bsky.social2

This CBS story is reading like the Carly Fiorina when she ran Hewlett Packard into the ground but got enough media to run for president as a Republican. I don't have to watch CBS just like I did not buy an HP product back in the early 2000s. Let's get the names of politicians picking journalists

Neil O2

Good for him! More journalists need to do this.

Reincarnatio19

Weiss has always been--and will continue to be a fraud. She created a fake university inside a strip mall in Austin and tried promoting her school as part of University of Texas (UT) She actually erected a bust of herself outside this fake school to make herself appear like a known scholar:

theslasher.bsky.social2

Ari Emanuel (Rahm's brother) = CEO of UFC - White House - Freedom 250 event. Some reporting on this please. Shameful.

johnnytone.bsky.social2

The big problem CBS is going to have is when they realize America already has a couple of well established right-wing news/propoganda outlets, and they're all struggling to keep both audiences & sponsors.