Scott Pelley walked into a meeting with CBS executives on Tuesday evening with his future at one of America’s most venerated news programmes hanging in the balance.
By nightfall, the veteran 60 Minutes correspondent had been fired, triggering a public war of words that has engulfed CBS News and thrust David Ellison’s network into crisis.
The rupture culminated months of escalating tensions inside CBS News. Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s attempt to transform the century-old organisation has ignited allegations of political interference and a bitter struggle over the future of the influential US news brand among some of the network’s most prominent journalists.
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