Media Insiders React to the Scott Pelley 60 Minutes Drama - The Fifth Column
June 4, 2026
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as posted by the channelIn this excerpt from ep. 560 of The Fifth Column, recorded just before the news broke that new 60 Minutes EP Nick Bilton had fired longtime host Scott Pelley, the guys give a media insider's view of the drama as it unfolds in realtime via leaked accounts in the press, and suggest there's something more going on there than speaking truth to power.
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Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally themselves.
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