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Getting fired is a nearly universal experience, but the way you found yourself suddenly unemployed is often industry specific.

Service industry workers are unfortunately familiar with coming in for a shift to find a sign on the door that says the restaurant is permanently closed. Mill workers watch extended furloughs calcify into something more permanent. In the journalism world, the pink slip comes with a herald: a new owner or consultant talking about ways the publication can modernize or pivot.

All-hands meetings led by outsiders discussing exciting new ventures that shift focus from musty old ideas like reporting often come about four months before the axe. Any talk about short-form video is a good sign to put aside your sturdier cardboard boxes.

Recently appointed head of CBS News Bari Weiss comes from the field, at least. But former staffers claim her tenure is marked by a push toward an unorthodox news-gathering tactic: lying.

Scott Pelley was fired from “60 Minutes” earlier this week after nearly 40 years with CBS. On Wednesday, the veteran journalist accused “new management” of instructing him to “inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.”

“I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them,” he shared in a statement. “Incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc… The collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of ‘60 Minutes’ is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.”

Pelley called the turn taken by “60 Minutes” in recent months “heartbreaking.” I’d call it shortsighted. The slow-moving, newsmagazine program has held on this long precisely because of its aversion to trend-chasing and modernization. Viewers can expect that stodgy old “60 Minutes” didn’t let anything on air that hadn’t been vetted to death, its quick, cheap sensationalism toned down by wave after wave of strenuous fact-checking. Why would anyone turn to “60 Minutes” for the sort of wobbly logic and anger they can find on any conservative network?

What do you think? Is “60 Minutes” strong enough to outlast Bari Weiss? Is there a place for their kind of journalism? Sound off in the comments.

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