BIAS EXPOSED! Yahoo News Promotes CBS News Scott Pelley Firing with Anti-Trump Slant

Michael Morris
June 3rd, 2026 12:56 PM

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Former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley reportedly blew up on CBS News executives and was fired as a result of his actions, but those who get their information from Yahoo News got a decidedly one-sided, anti-Trump narrative instead.

Rather than promoting a straight news piece on the firing of Pelley on Wednesday, Yahoo News took a different track. The digital news gatekeeper elevated Pelley's firing from CBS News as its number one placement in its top 20 stories this morning, but it chose to rely on a piece from left-leaning outlet Deadline. Yahoo’s headline for the Deadline piece completely whitewashed and reframed Pelley’s outburst, “Fired Scott Pelley Decries ‘Heartbreaking’ Submission To Trump By CBS, Paramount: ‘Incompetence & Unprofessionalism In The New Management Have Wreaked Havoc.’”

Imagine if any employee directly ridiculed their superior in front of numerous colleagues during a meeting, accusing the new boss of “incompetence and unprofessionalism” and bending the knee to President Donald Trump. The outcome seems abundantly clear. That’s what reportedly happened here.

MRC President David Bozell celebrated the firing in an X post with music notes, “Another one bites the dust.” Bozell revelled further in another post on X, “If Scott Pelley, Don Lemon, Jim Acosta, Sharyn Alfonsi, Stephen Colbert, Chuck Todd, Joy Reid, Cecilia Vega, Scott Macfarlane, and Terry Moran started a super network, their ratings would still get crushed by a corn-hole tournament on ESPN The Ocho.”

The influence of oft-forgotten Yahoo (Yahoo News and Yahoo Finance) cannot be understated. It has a massive digital footprint through which it can impact the American multitudes. Across its websites, Yahoo ranks fourth overall on Press Gazette’s most recent top 50 U.S. news websites list with a whopping 204.6 million visits per month.  

Instead of pushing a story from a leftist outlet with a clear one-sided, anti-Trump slant, the news aggregator could have used any number of stories from AllSides-rated center media outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Reuters or The Hill.

Center media outlet headlines below:

  • “‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Scott Pelley Fired by CBS News,” published by The Wall Street Journal on June 3.

  • “‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Scott Pelley Fired After Calling Out Bari Weiss,” published by Forbes on June 2.

  • “CBS News fires Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes, sources say,” published by Reuters on June 2.

  • “CBS fires Scott Pelley after criticism of network leadership,” promoted by The Hill on June 3.

Or it could have even promoted a story from a slew of AllSides-rated right-leaning media outlets like Fox News, New York Post, Daily Mail, Breitbart or Newsmax. 

Right-leaning media outlet headlines below:

  • “Scott Pelley fired at CBS News after blowups with Bari Weiss, new '60 Minutes' producer,” published by Fox News on June 2.

  • “CBS News boss Bari Weiss sounds off on Scott Pelley firing in dramatic all-hands staff call: ‘Path that he chose,’” published by the New York Post on June 3.

  • “Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley is FIRED by CBS after bitter blow-up at new boss amid crisis at network,” published by Daily Mail on June 3.

  • “CBS News Terminates Scott Pelley’s Contract After He ‘Hijacked’ Staff Meeting,” published by Breitbart on June 2.

  • “Veteran CBS Journalist Pelley Out After '60 Minutes' Confrontation,” published by Newsmax on June 2. 

Methodology: On June 3, 2026, MRC researchers examined the top 20 stories featured on Yahoo News at approximately 8:30 AM ET. MRC researchers used the AllSides media bias ratings, which categorize an outlet as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right” to determine the overall bias presented by Yahoo and analyzed the results.

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