Pelley’s tearful tantrum: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Former “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley’s tear-filled New York Times interview.
I’m bemused at Scott Pelley’s tearful response to his firing as a correspondent on “60 Minutes” (“Pelley cries over firings,” June 8).
Does he consider that, in contrast to each different worker in America, he’s proof against being fired from his place?
Lesley Stahl must also take word and stop referring to herself as a survivor or she may be becoming a member of Pelley on the unemployment line.
Anthony Bruno
Smithtown
I used to be shocked to study of how Scott Pelley unloaded on Nick Bilton, the new government producer of “60 Minutes,” and on CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, at a assembly with co-workers.
I can perceive why Weiss feels that he went too far, sacrificing his place.
But Pelley’s tirade ought to reveal the hazard the community is in by appointing unqualified people to distinguished positions in an effort to bend the operation to please the president.
When journalistic independence is diminished, reality is the casualty.
Pelley fired the shot heard all over the world, warning the public of the results.
Oren Spiegler
Peters Township, Pa.
The dust-up about Pelley’s firing jogged my memory: If I had been guilty of insubordination during my time as an enlisted infantry grunt, I might’ve been thrown into the stockade.
Perhaps when Pelley was doing time in “combat,” he was not held to the identical rigorous requirements as a Private First Class.
Although I’ve labored as a program director for a community TV affiliate, I might by no means say, “that means I’m a journalist” — as a result of it could be patently unfaithful.
I trust somebody will let Pelley know that the identical applies for serving in fight.
John Park
Hobe Sound, Fla.
Thanks CBS for eradicating that condescending smug Scott Pelley.
You’re on the fitting path.
Butch Dener
New Paltz
Pelley forgot that he’s an worker, not the boss; he doesn’t signal his own examine.
He was, and is, a self-righteous woke Democrat who used his place as a supposed newscaster to ram his beliefs down viewers’ throats.
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One by one, the wokesters are biting the mud and no one will miss them.
Mike Caterino
Oxford, Conn.
The Issue: The deadly capturing of Jonathan Pettigrew, a father of seven, by a 15-year-old on a Bronx bus.
Thanks in your wonderful editorial (“Raise the Age Kills a Bronx Dad,” Editorial, June 10).
While former Gov. Andrew Cuomo might have signed the insane Raise the Age law, it was validated and supported by whiny former state Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.
The ersatz former chief choose and his woke criminal-justice and incarceration-reform commission have to be on the prime of the checklist of people to carry accountable for the destruction of New York City.
Charles Compton
The Bronx
Who am I to query Mayor Mamdani and the knowledge of socialism?
I simply really feel that fellow Bronxite and father of seven, Jonathan Pettigrew, would have somewhat paid for his MTA bus trip with a few hard-earned {dollars}, than along with his life.
An obscene price to pay for a hardworking, native New Yorker.
Joe Schulok
The Bronx
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie bears half of the blame for the deadly capturing of a 41-year-old father of seven by a 15-year-old thug on a Bronx bus.
Heastie was the chief advocate for the Raise the Age Law, which permits younger felons to actually get away with homicide.
One argument in favor of the law was that youngsters’ brains will not be absolutely developed.
Perhaps it’s Heastie’s mind that’s not absolutely developed.
Richard Reif
Kew Gardens Hills
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