"Former CBS News investigative reporter @SharylAttkisson tells me she's shocked it took 60 Minutes this long to fire Scott Pelley: "Scott Pelley was not a popular anchor in terms of his skill as an anchor as well as his personality... Quite a while before they removed him, I was told by a level above David Rhodes that they were trying to fix what they call 'The Scott Pelley Problem.'"
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The Morning Briefing: Scott Pelley's Podcast Tears Made My Schadenfreude Cup Runneth Over . . . "When I wrote about Scott Pelley getting fired from CBS last week, I said that I don't usually like to celebrate when people lose their jobs, "but when those jobs involve carrying water for people who are actively trying to destroy the United States of America, the circumstances are duly mitigated."
"So, I wasn't feeling that bad for him. He's a serial liar who has been polluting American political dialogue via faux journalism for almost four decades. Pelley is now redefining "insufferable" while making the interview rounds to whine about the firing he most definitely deserved." . . .
Scott Pelley earned his dismissal long ago "My favorite Scott Pelley interview was with then-former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Christopher Krebs. Pelley must have liked it as well, because, following the interview, and with further elaboration, he posted it online, under the title “Fired director of U.S. cyber agency Chris Krebs explains why President Trump’s claims of election interference are false.”
"In his introduction, Pelley states, “Mr. Trump’s claim that millions of votes were deleted or switched is denied by the official he chose to secure the nation’s election systems.”
"This is a misleading and a false statement. It is misleading because, although Trump did claim that millions of votes were deleted or switched, he was not speaking about “the nation’s election systems,” but about a specific element in it — its computer systems." More...
Scott Pelley Isn’t a Serious Journalist
Pelley’s reporting was botched for reasons that went beyond his gullibility. Anyone, of course, can be fooled by a skillful conman, but Pelley took things to a new level of deception. In order to make Chevron look bad, his 60 Minutes crew showed only the scarred oil pits that Chevron didn’t have control over and not the ones it did. The latter were sites it had worked diligently to repair.
. . . "I used to edit future CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil’s writing at New York Press. Tony is someone of intelligence, character, and sensitivity. However, let’s be honest: His on-air value starts with his good looks. This is what news personalities ordinarily are required to display. Rogan is a different fish. Yet, while he may not be pretty, he’s shown that he can command an audience. So, would he be any less qualified than Pelley? Or might he be more qualified?" . . .
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