Ed Morrissey, writing for Hot Air, thinks Scott Pelley got what he deserved and Bari Weiss is doing a good job running CBS News:
And Pelley forgot the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the
rules. Instead, Pelley convinced himself of his own virtue and
torched his own position — and if Bilton’s letter is accurate, in
as mean-spirited and conceited a manner as possible. Pelley could
have chosen a dignified resignation under protest, but instead
pulled a power move in an attempt to intimidate Bilton, Weiss, and
Ellison, only to discover that no one feared his absence. In fact,
they’re probably happy to cut him loose.There’s always at least one person in these situations who
thinks they’re untouchable. A wise executive knows to start by
making an example of that person, and then see how many other
people think they’re indispensable. It’s not as if TV news jobs
are expanding these days, after all. Pelley’s going to find out
the hard way that no one’s paying $5 million a year to emote into
a camera from other people’s copy.
It doesn’t even enter this man’s little mind that Pelley wasn’t concerned about his job, wasn’t concerned about his salary, but was concerned only with the integrity of the institution to which he’d committed decades of his career, and that he saw as his duty the need to stand up for his remaining and former colleagues. That Pelley himself has integrity. To the Trump lickspittles, everything is performative. They don’t just lack integrity, they don’t believe integrity is real.
The Scott Pelley story to me is a lesson in how if you work hard
enough in your career to get Fuck You Money, the real reward is
the day you need to say it, you can.
