Fired 60 Minutes veteran Scott Pelley hasn’t quoted poet John Masefield in any of his scathing statements since embattled CBS News chief Bari Weiss and new newsmagazine EP Nick Bilton canned him for rejecting their regime earlier this week. However, the ex-Evening News anchor sure captured the spirit of the past British Poet Laureate’s famous 1902 penned ‘Sea-Fever’ today in an online missive.
“To all of you who have been so kind, you are the wind in my sails,” an ocean gliding Pelley wrote in near verse on Instagram Saturday. “So deeply grateful.”
Proving that less is more,
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