Former "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley accused CBS News leadership of political bias and incompetence on Sunday in his first sit-down interview since he was fired from the network last week after clashing with new management.Pelley, who spent 37 years at CBS News, said the turmoil began after CBS dismissed several senior "60 Minutes" staffers and installed journalist Nick Bilton as the program’s new executive producer under CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.During the emotional interview, Pelley not only insisted Weiss put her "thumb on the scale" for President Trump but also pushed back on the notion that "60 Minutes" is biased against conservatives. Media Research Center President David Bozell was stunned to hear Pelley’s remarks.
"Scott Pelley is seriously still asking why Americans think ‘60 Minutes’ is biased? Maybe because Americans watched Lesley Stahl dismiss the Hunter Biden laptop story.Maybe because they watched ‘60 Minutes’ clean up Kamala Harris’s answers.
Maybe because they’ve spent years watching one set of rules for Democrats and another for Republicans," Bozell told Fox News Digital.SCOTT PELLEY RIPPED FOR CLAIMING HE WAS 'IN COMBAT' IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ AFTER CBS NEWS FIRINGScott Pelley was fired by CBS News after clashing with the network's leadership. (Screenshot/CBS)"The amazing thing isn’t that trust in the media has collapsed," Bozell continued."The amazing thing is that the people responsible for squandering that trust still can’t figure out why."Here are noteworthy "60 Minutes" scandals and controversies that occurred long before Weiss took over the network in 2025: The 1995 "60 Minutes" segment about Big Tabacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand was so scandalous that it led to the 1999 film "The Insider" starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe.Wigand, a former executive of the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, had an agreement not to disclose internal information about the cigarette juggernau...