Scott Pelley Reportedly Axed From CBS Evening News

[mfcorey1]

Scott Pelley reportedly has been booted from the anchor desk at “CBS Evening News.”

The New York Post, which broke the story on Tuesday evening, said Pelley will remain with the network at “60 Minutes.”

The newspaper’s Page Six said his office was cleared out earlier in the day, while he was away on assignment.

There is no word yet on who will replace him, but CBS Money is reporting that senior national correspondent Anthony Mason will likely fill in for now.

Pelley, who joined the network in 1989, replaced Katie Couric as anchor of “CBS Evening News” in 2011.

“Scott has it all. He has the experience, the credibility and he is among the very best reporters ever to work at CBS News,” Jeff Fager, who was then chairman of CBS News, said in a statement at the time. “We like to think of CBS News as the ‘reporter’s network’ and I can’t think of anybody in this business better suited for the anchor chair than Scott.”

Pelley has drawn both praise and criticism for his no-holds-barred coverage of President Donald Trump, whom he called “divorced from reality” during a broadcast in February.

He later defended the comments.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scott-pelley-out-at-cbs-news_us_592e2278e4b0e95ac194deaa?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

[riversedge]

1. Whow--did the WH write cbs a nasty letter??

[riversedge]

2. Listen to this short video at the website....Scott has been taking on Trump and his lies...

Scott Pelley Reportedly Axed From CBS Evening News
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scott-pelley-out-at-cbs-news_us_592e2278e4b0e95ac194deaa?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

[Achilleaze]

3. Pelley has been doing an honest job

He deserves a pat on the back from people who are interested in getting to the facts. Something stinks about this.

[blogslut]

4. Variety has a different take.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/scott-pelley-leave-cbs-evening-news-1202448476/

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Scott Pelley will leave his post as the anchor of “CBS Evening News,” departing the network’s flagship newscast without a ready replacement as he returns to full-time duty at “60 Minutes,” according to a person familiar with the situation.

CBS News declined to comment on the situation, which appears to have caught the network by surprise. Pelley is currently on assignment for the venerable Sunday newsmagazine, but had his office packed in his absence, this person said, in full view of staffers. Among the furnishings in the anchor’s suite are photographs of CBS greats like Edward R. Murrow and a giant painting of a sailboat, commissioned by his wife, Jane. Pelley is a sailing aficionado, but gave up the hobby when he added “Evening News” duties to the job he already had at “60 Minutes,” where he has been a presence since 2004. He was able to get back on the water after a few years of juggling both shows.

Pelley is expected at present to return to the evening newscast before ending his tenure, this person said.

The transition may be one of the more abrupt the medium has seen in the evening-news space, even keeping in mind Brian Williams’ departure from “NBC Nightly News” in 2015. That departure came about as the direct result of the anchor making misleading statements about a 2003 helicopter trip that resulted in his being suspended, then removed, from the program. For decades, the networks have tried to pass the evening-news baton from an august veteran to an experienced successor: Walter Cronkite to Dan Rather. Charles Gibson to Diane Sawyer. Tom Brokaw to Brian Williams...

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[jberryhill]

5. I'll bet he's working on a humdinger of a 60 Minutes piece

[nikibatts]

6. We no longer have a "free press," if we ever had one.