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Scott Pelley responded to Bari Weiss‘ characterization of a last gathering he had pinch her and different apical CBS News executives, saying that she and CBS News President Tom Cibrowski were “openly dispute from nan start.”
Earlier connected Wednesday, Weiss addressed Pelley’s termination connected a unit call, contending that aft they tried to prosecute pinch him astatine a gathering connected Tuesday, they couldn’t “find a measurement back” and “we had to portion ways.”
In a connection Pelley provided to The New York Times, he said that Weiss “knows what she said is not true.”
He said that he was “effectively fired” and “there was nary effort of immoderate benignant to ‘find a measurement back.'”
“At nary constituent did anyone successful nan Tuesday gathering propose that location would beryllium steps taken by either broadside that would lead to a resolution,” he said. He said that Weiss and CBS News President Rom Cibrowski were “openly dispute from nan start. ‘Firing’ was raised by Ciborwski successful nan first 15 seconds. No CBS executive, astatine immoderate time, suggested ‘a measurement back.’ To opportunity truthful now is disingenuous. And they cognize it.”
Pelley past provided his ain transcript of a information of nan meeting, successful which he contended that Weiss refused to reply questions astir why she fired nan elder unit of 60 Minutes without cause, arsenic good arsenic 2 correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega. Cibrowski, Pelley said, declared that nan “conversation is over.”
“I was stonewalled for astir 10 minutes and then, for nary evident reason, ‘This speech is over.'”
He said, “I americium pained that nan unit of CBS News was misled successful nan Wednesday greeting convention call. These executives cannot summation nan spot of nan unit pinch lies. This is antithetical to everything we guidelines for and reveals contempt for what journalists do.”
Pelley’s statement is nan second since he sewage announcement from new 60 Minutes executive shaper Nick Bilton connected Tuesday evening that he was being terminated.
A CBS News spokesperson did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
