Marina Hyde

He seems not to have realised, Scott Pelley, that this could potentially get him fired.

Anyhow, turns out you can get fired for stuff like that.

So he did.

Scott Pelley did get fired.

And he's now on this incredibly emotional round of interviews saying about, you know, the team, the family on 60 Minutes.

You know, we travel together.

We dine together.

We go into literal combat together.

Well, you cover literal combat, but okay.

And then he started crying in some of these interviews.

He said, it's like...

your family being murdered someone wipes out a large number of your family members this is talking about the you know comings and goings in the CBS newsroom it's like your spouse being murdered I would say that again a reminder that American journalism takes itself so preposterously seriously you know I

But please, can you imagine anyone in the BBC saying, this is literally like your spouse being murdered?

Okay, let's just take a moment here.

So there are three major correspondents still on air, by the way, who have said they will go if anything more is done to it.

This is like the democratic establishment.

Yeah.

Yeah, I agree with that.

I agree and we can't argue that there has been effectively editorial interference.

Because the mere settling of that suit in order to get... We can't argue there hasn't.