Scott Pelley

So that's the depth of my devotion.

No one saw the Black Thursday massacre coming.

This is our entire senior staff, people beloved.

Tanya Simon, our executive producer, she's the boss.

And this was her triumph.

She's the first woman ever to be executive producer of 60 Minutes.

And she concluded this season

with a growth in our audience of 9%, which is unheard of in broadcast television, and a growth in our online presence of 190%.

Last season, we had 2.5 billion views.

That's a third of humanity.

So we're riding high.

This management team has been brilliant.

Tanya has the best first year of any executive producer, and I've worked for all of them.

And then the night before, Tanya and I and Dragan Mihailovic, her deputy, et cetera, we're all at the Emmy Awards, and we win two Emmy Awards.

Within hours, all of those people have been wiped out.

And one third of our correspondents have been fired.

And at the same moment that that happens, we are informed of our new executive producer.

His name is Nick Bilton.

I'm sure he must be a wonderful man, but no one had ever heard of him.

He has zero experience in television news and no experience in management.