New Delhi, June 3 -- Scott Pelley, a longtime 60 Minutes correspondent who was fired by CBS News, has accused the network's new executives of trying to "curry favour" with the Donald Trump administration.

In a public statement, Pelley also claimed that they instructed him "to inject falsehoods and bias" into his reporting.

In a lengthy social media statement, Pelley wrote: "'60' has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories."

"When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects," he said. "Now, the new ow...