CBS News fired longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday after a tense staff meeting where he criticized CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton, the program's new executive producer, who had been installed the previous week. Bilton told Pelley in a termination letter that he had "hijacked" Bilton's first staff meeting by disparaging his qualifications and intentions. Pelley said in a statement that the program had "lost its DNA" under new management and accused ...

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