Scott Pelley: I was dropped from CBS Evening News for complaining about CBS News' “hostile work environment”

The Daily Beast

Pelley said on CNN's Reliable Sources that former CBS News president David Rhodes threatened his job over his complaints that CBS News had become a “hostile work environment” for male and female news division staffers. “I lost my job because I wouldn’t stop complaining to management,” Pelley said. “Four or five years ago, I went to the president of the news division and explained to him that this hostile work environment couldn’t go on, for women and men,” he said referring to Rhodes. "And he told me if I kept agitating about that internally, then I’d lose my job.” Reached by The Daily Beast, Rhodes responded: “That simply never happened. And if he had those conversations about this with anybody, it wasn’t with me.” On Monday, CBS News responded to Pelley, saying in a statement: “Scott was expressing his own opinion. We disagree. CBS News has been working hard to advocate for an inclusive, safe and dignified workplace for everyone at CBS News and Scott has been a supporter of these efforts.”