A new website has quietly indexed nearly 37,000 minutes of one journalist's career at the moment that career came to an abrupt end.
Scott Pelley spent 37 years as a correspondent at 60 Minutes, CBS News's flagship newsmagazine, before being fired after he publicly opposed the network's new leadership. Pelley accused those bosses of "murdering" the show. In a New York Times interview, he described a changed editorial environment at the network and warned of outside influence on what gets reported. The Pelley Minutes, a website built in response, tallies and contextualizes that career across decades of coverage ranging from chess tournaments to active war zones.
The timing is pointed. Legacy TV newsrooms are under mounting pressure from new ownership and executive turnover, and critics argue those changes erode the firewall between business interests and editorial judgment. A career retrospective website is a modest act on its own, but as a document of what four decades of independent reporting looked like, it lands at exactly the right moment.
CBS has not publicly disputed Pelley's characterization of events. That silence is its own kind of answer.