SCOTT PELLEY BREAKS ON CAMERA AS THE OLD CBS CULTURE COLLAPSES
Scott Pelley didn’t walk into that interview to perform. He walked in carrying grief. You could see it in the way his voice caught, the way he kept circling back to the same wound. The man who spent decades reporting from war zones finally looked like someone hit by friendly fire.
He said losing his job at 60 Minutes felt like losing a spouse. He didn’t dress it up. He didn’t try to sound tough. He said it plainly. He meant it.
He talked about the “Black Thursday massacre,” the day CBS leadership gutted the newsroom he’d given his life to. People he’d worked beside for decades. People he’d…
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