Scott Pelley accuses CBS News’ Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’

“60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley accused CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the venerable newsmagazine at a staff meeting with Nick Bilton, the technology journalist tapped to oversee the show, according to an audio recording and a source who was in the room.

“60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley accused CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the venerable newsmagazine at a staff meeting Monday with Nick Bilton, the technology journalist tapped to oversee the show, according to an audio recording and a source who was in the room.

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Bilton, a documentary filmmaker and former tech columnist at The New York Times, told “60 Minutes” staff members that Weiss “loves this institution,” the source said. Pelley interrupted Bilton and pushed back.

“She is murdering ‘60 Minutes.’ She does not love this place,” Pelley told Bilton, according to the audio recording. “She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that.”