Kimmel called CBS’s latest shake-up a “cowardly decision.”
Jimmy Kimmel accused CBS of firing one of their most respected journalists for standing up to his new right-leaning bosses.on Tuesday after he fiercely criticized CBS ’s new editor in chief, Bari Weiss.
Weiss had been hired despite having zero experience running a broadcast news network, and she has since been reshaping the network in a “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that,” Pelleyabout Weiss in a meeting with Nick Bilton on Monday.
Bilton had just been hired as the new executive producer of“because he stood up for truth and integrity at a show that’s been the gold standard for broadcast journalism for 57 years. ”“That was it for Scott Pelley,” Kimmel explained.
“He said, ‘the collapse of values at the top has become untenable,’ and he let have it in a staff meeting, right to the new guy’s face. So last night, they fired him. ”Kimmel argued it was no surprise that President Trump “applauded” Pelley’s departure. He referred to Trump’s Tuesday appearance on the right-wingKimmel joked that Pelley’s gang was at least “different from the gang of crooked, stupid people a part of. ”
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