“He told me if I kept agitating about that internally then I’d lose my job,” Pelley said. “Having exhausted the possibilities in the news division, I went to the chairman of the CBS Corporation, who listened to me very concerned for an hour, asked me some penetrating questions about what was going on, didn’t hear back from him, but in the next opportunity in my contract I was let go from the evening news.”

Source: Los Angeles Times May 27, 2019 00:33 UTC