Late radio and television writer-broadcaster Andy Rooney is currently trending amid CBS’s firing of 60 Minutes co-correspondent Scott Pelley. Netizens are exchanging views about what Rooney would have done in Pelley’s place.Andy’s final appearance on his weekly show, A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, a part of 60 Minutes, was in October 2011, five weeks before his death. He hosted it from 1978 to 2011.In April 1987, Andy Rooney threatened to quit CBS after a long-drawn dispute with the network management over cutbacks and the writers’ strike:''It's going to be a serious wrench in my life, but if this is not resolved so that the writers go back in, I'm leaving. I hate to do it, but I will. I was getting no good information as to what was going on in there.''His on-air comments came after CBS reportedly denied his request to organize a negotiation between the company’s executives and the Writers Guild of America as a reporter/ mediator.Back then, the five-week strike involved over 525 writers, graphic artists, newsroom staff, and more, at not just CBS but also ABC, according to an archived article of The New York Times.Exploring Andy Rooney’s tenure at CBSAfter serving as a war correspondent for the Army publication Stars and Stripes during the Second World War, 30-year-old Andy Rooney joined CBS in 1949 as a writer for radio and TV legend Arthur Godfrey’s syndicated show, Talent Scouts. After the show became a national hit, Godfrey retained Rooney as his lead writer and later hired him to work on his daytime radio/ TV program, Arthur Godfrey Time.In the 1950s, Andy also wrote for other CBS News shows such as The Garry Moore Show and The Twentieth Century.In 1964, Andy Rooney made headlines for his TV essay, “An Essay on Doors,” which acted as a “longer-length precursor” to 60 Minutes. Between 1962 and 1968, he famously collaborated with CBS News correspondent/ narrator Harry Reasoner as a writer and producer.The duo worked on several CBS News specials/ signature essays, including An Essay on Bridges, An Essay on Hotels, An Essay on Women, and The Strange Case of the English Language.Andy Rooney also co-wrote two episodes of the 1968 CBS documentary series Of Black America, including Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed, which earned the journalist his first Emmy and FDR: The Man Who Changed America in 1975.When CBS refused to air his World War II memoir, An Essay on War, Rooney resigned in 1970 and moved on to PBS, thus making his first onscreen appearance and winning his third Writers’ Guild Award.Andy returned to CBS in 1973 not only as a writer but also as a producer for primetime specials such as In Praise of New York City and Mr Rooney Goes to Washington (won him the Peabody Award). Other credits bearing his name included Mr Rooney Goes to Dinner and Mr Rooney Goes to Work. All of these were later compiled into the book, A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, which also happens to be the name of his most famous gig at CBS, and came at the end of 60 Minutes (was also called Three Minutes or So with Andy Rooney for a while).What began as a summer replacement for the Point/ Counterpoint debate segment featuring James Kilpatrick and Shana Alexander became Andy Rooney’s life-changing work. In fact, after airing both segments simultaneously, the network dropped Point/ Counterpoint entirely in 1979.A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney offered a satirical view on daily and trivial issues, including family and friends, groceries and bills, and even Christmas presents. He also weighed in on kinds of milk, bottled water brands, sports mascots, and cars.Over the decades, he also delivered sociopolitical opinions and often got into trouble for his s*xist, homophob*c, and racist remarks, for instance, on the 1990 television special, A Year with Andy Rooney. At times, he denied claiming they were meant to be “simple, direct, and funny,” and other times he apologized.President Obama, Andy Rooney, VIP's, Attend Memorial Service For Walter Cronkite - Source: GettySpeaking with the Newark Star-Ledger in 1998, Rooney noted he considered himself more of an essayist/ script writer/ producer than a television icon:“There’s really no good reason to keep using it. But I like the typewriter. I like the sound of it. When I write on a computer screen, I feel like the words really don’t exist. But when I write on a typewriter, they’re real.”During one of his final appearances, he echoed similar sentiments:"When I went on television, it was as a writer. I don't think of myself as a television personality. I'm a writer — who reads what he's written."Andy Rooney passed away from post-surgical complications in November 2011. He was 92.As for Scott Pelley, he joined CBS News in 1989 and became a 60 Minutes II correspondent in 1999, before moving on to 60 Minutes in 2004. He also served as CBS’s Chief White House correspondent and anchor/ managing editor for the Evening News between 2011 and 2017.In the wake of the termination of several CBS employees in recent months, including correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi last week, Pelley reportedly clashed with the newly appointed executive editor, Nick Bilton, on Monday morning, during which he condemned editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, who joined in October after CBS’s parent company Paramount was acquired by Skydance.According to The Guardian, Pelley, 68, told Bilton about Weiss:“She’s murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.”Amid his fiery remark, Pelley was asked to meet Bari Weiss and other executives on Tuesday, who all agreed that his behavior was “inappropriate.” Later, Nick Bilton wrote a letter to Scott Pelley terminating his contract with CBS. While he called Scott a “60 Minutes veteran,” he also rebuked him and said his “employment” is “terminated for cause, effective immediately.”