Marina Hyde

So many have been made redundant.

And lots and lots of executive staff, correspondents, everyone has been made redundant.

They talk about it as Black Thursday or Black Friday or whatever.

One of the correspondents, very senior correspondent.

Yeah, he seems... And by the way, the audio of this meeting was, of course, recorded and given to the New York Times.

Scott probably made a big speech saying that Barry Wise was murdering 60 Minutes.

Strangely, he seems to, and various other things beside, he has a big sort of, goes kind of toe-to-toe with Nick Bilton.

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?