CBS has finally done what viewers did years ago — given Scott Pelley the boot. The 37-year veteran of the network got canned after secretly recording a confrontation with new CBS Executive Producer Nick Bilton in a staff meeting, then leaking the tape like a disgruntled intern with a grudge and a Gmail account.

Imagine working somewhere for nearly four decades and your big final act is pulling out your phone like a teenager at a school board meeting. Brilliant career move, Scott.

Bilton fired Pelley in a public letter after the leaked recording went viral. The whole saga played out like a soap opera, except nobody was watching — which, come to think of it, is exactly why CBS has been bleeding viewers for years. Pelley had already been yanked from the CBS Evening News anchor desk previously, so this was less of a firing and more of a long-overdue eviction.

The crew over at Fox News' "The Five" did what any of us would do when the smuggest man in broadcast news finally gets shown the door — they threw a roast.

Greg Gutfeld didn't hold back. "He just looks like a cartoon because he is a cartoon," Gutfeld said, before delivering the headstone inscription CBS deserves: "They have not done any real investigative pieces, and all the mistakes they have made... These guys are idiots. Goodbye."

Goodbye indeed.

Jesse Watters piled on with the kind of diagnosis only a fellow TV host can deliver: "The guy has massive TDS, and he's pompous... do you secretly tape the boss and then leak it? No... He was asking to get axed." Watters is right. In what universe do you secretly record your new boss, leak the tape, and expect to keep your parking spot? Pelley's universe, apparently — the one where legacy media anchors believe they're untouchable because they wore a suit on camera for three decades.

And that's the real story here. It's not just about one pompous anchor getting fired. It's about the entire culture at these legacy networks. While real journalists like Bill Melugin were breaking stories at the border, and investigators like Chris Rufo and Michael Shellenberger were doing actual shoe-leather reporting, CBS was running a retirement home for blowhards who thought "journalism" meant lecturing middle America from behind a mahogany desk.

Meanwhile, 24-year-old journalists like Nick Shirley are out there doing the work that Pelley's generation wouldn't touch. The torch didn't just get passed — it got ripped out of their cold, condescending hands.

Here's the kicker: when the survey asked Americans what they thought of network news, Pelley and his colleagues at CBS were already the answer to a question nobody was asking. Leslie Stahl is still hanging around like the last guest at a party that ended two hours ago, but the writing is on the wall.

The networks keep wondering why nobody watches. Then they act shocked — shocked! — when they finally cancel the guy viewers tuned out years ago. It's not a mystery. We didn't leave them. They left us. And now Scott Pelley can spend his retirement secretly recording his HOA meetings and leaking them to the neighborhood Facebook group.

Clean out the desk, Scott. You earned it.