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Following his ousting from 60 Minutes and CBS News earlier this month, Scott Pelley has recovered caller representation.
Deadline tin corroborate nan 51x Emmy-winning news anchor has signed pinch Creative Artists Agency (CAA) conscionable weeks aft he was fired complete an alleged confrontation pinch caller executive shaper Nick Bilton nether Bari Weiss’ reign.
While galore existent and erstwhile 60 Minutes correspondents are represented by UTA, Pelley joins erstwhile workfellow Lesley Stahl successful nan CAA family.
More than 35 years into his CBS career, Pelley was fired connected June 2 complete a verbal confrontation successful which he put nan caller activity connected blast. In a missive to Pelley, Bilton said they could not “find a way guardant together” pursuing nan confrontation, which he called a “performative show of hostility.”
In his first question and reply since nan termination, Pelley told The New York Times that nan caller activity doesn’t “know what they’re doing.”
“We person group who’ve been installed successful these jobs who done nary responsibility of their ain person nary acquisition successful television,” said Pelley. “They don’t cognize what they’re doing. And there’s a subtle governmental bias that I’ve ne'er seen astatine 60 Minutes before, aliases astatine CBS News before. So that is my hope: a return to sanity. We tin prevention this. It’s imaginable to onshore this plane. But correct now, CBS News is connected fire.
