Bari Weiss Speaks on Scott Pelley’s Firing: ‘That’s the Path That He Chose’
In her first public comments on the firing, Ms. Weiss, the CBS News editor in chief, said that the longtime correspondent had “broken” the trust in the newsroom.
Bari Weiss, the CBS News editor in chief, told her newsroom on Wednesday morning that the network fired the “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley because a “foundation” of trust had been broken after he assailed CBS leadership.
“I’m only interested in working in a newsroom that is built on trust and mutual respect; we cannot do our work without it,” Ms. Weiss said on a 9 a.m. editorial call, according to a recording that was obtained by The New York Times.
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