Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss wanted 60 Minutes to say Renee Good was ‘driving toward officer’
Fired journalist accuses CBS News chief of interfering with report because it echoed what Trump said of the shooting Fired CBS 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley has accused editorial management at his old network of interfering with a broadcast segment looking at an immigration officer’s killing of Minneapolis protester Renee Good in January. The veteran broadcaster, who was recently dismissed from the show, said CBS News’s editor-in-chief Bari Weiss had sent an email to his sup
Former "60 Minutes" anchor Scott Pelley claims that CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss attempted to influence a segment about the shooting death of protester Renee Good. Pelley alleges that Weiss sent an email requesting changes to the report shortly before it was scheduled to air. The proposed alteration reportedly involved characterizing Good as "driving toward officer," a detail Pelley suggests was an attempt to align the report with a narrative previously promoted by then-President Trump.
This situation raises questions about editorial independence and potential political influence in news reporting.
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