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John Oliver wasted nary clip getting into nan headlines during nan evening’s Last Week Tonight episode, addressing 1 of nan large pieces of news complete nan weekend: nan continuing fallout of CBS News‘ ousting of longtime analogous Scott Pelley.
“CBS News fired Scott Pelley for nan crime of: being excessively cool successful a meeting,” nan comic quipped, referencing nan 37-year veteran’s unceremonious dismissal pursuing his tense verbal confrontation pinch editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and recently minted 60 Minutes executive shaper Nick Bilton.
During nan meeting, which took spot past Monday erstwhile Bilton was introducing himself to web staffers, nan 51-time Emmy-winning broadcast journalist grilled nan EP and The Free Press laminitis astir their qualifications, adding that nan second is “murdering” nan stalwart newsmagazine.
Earlier this weekend, Pelley sat down pinch The New York Times to show his broadside of nan story, opening up successful an inaugural question and reply pursuing his dismissal. He told nan publication that being fired was “the furthest point from my mind” during nan Tuesday emergency gathering he had pinch leadership. “So I’m reasoning that nan meeting’s going to transportation on. We’re going to person a agelong conversation. Very quickly aft nan gathering began, [CBS News president] Tom Cibrowski said, this speech is over. I was stunned,” he recalled.
On Sunday, FCC president Brendan Carr took to societal media to slam Pelley arsenic “completely retired of touch,” maintaining that “You could not get distant pinch that behaviour astatine immoderate tally of nan mill job. It is revealing to spot really unsighted immoderate are to that.”
