Jeff Peterson

Gas Station Patron.

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@KenGlaser64 @osbornforne Maybe go compare the populations of Central City or Albion from 1980 real quick and try again, sport.

And wait until you hear why Columbus is up people and what their skin color is…

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“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. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me 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. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now 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.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@brianstelter So go ahead and give us the top hat and cane routine like your corporate overlords demand, you wiener.

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

Fuck this.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

#BREAK: CBS NEWS has terminated Scott Pelley's contract.

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@MattMcMedia I order a 10, and usually it’s fine. But every once in awhile I think they’re like ‘OK, guy named JEFF PETERSON, let’s see what you really got’ and I get what’s coming to me.

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@ElectraTrader @SNYGiants Are you suggesting the Trump administration held him hostage and made him get up on that stage? Lmao. I’d be sympathetic to that if it was true…but come on.

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@RyanFromDiscord @THEZONEEEEEE @airbrushpen @Viggie_Smalls93 Nothing for me to learn, I don't personally run campaigns. I just sit here as a Democrat in a different red state watching Republicans call Talarico gay and a vegan like it's 1994 middle school and realizing it's likely going to work.

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@THEZONEEEEEE @RyanFromDiscord @airbrushpen @Viggie_Smalls93 This is why my fistfight theory- that Dems should only run people in red or purple states that a reasonable person (me) believes has been in a fight-is ironclad so far.

It’s to appeal to morons like this. Which unfortunately we have to.

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@DanWolken Sure. And Australia. The heat just seems to really be impacting this tournament in an outsized way and has a few times recently.

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

It’s like he found my old Walkman with a tape containing music I recorded off 97.1 KELN in 1990. Are Martika and Cathy Dennis on the bill too?

[Stereogum @stereogum]

Trump's Freedom 250 concerts book Milli Vanilli, Vanilla Ice, & C+C Music Factory

https://t.co/egX3wuTC8A

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

If you want to see some fucking dorks, these are the replies for you.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

From June 11 to July 19, New Yorkers can eat, drink, and celebrate the World Cup for just $26 at restaurants across all five boroughs.

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[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@joshtweeterson I think he’s going to be good, but I do worry about it translating to the Big 10. But probably more I worry about durability. How many normal-sized QBs have lasted the entire season here in the last 10-15 years?

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@HowieRose I loved Carson and like your call, this what it is: a conjuring of the irrelevant past to justify supporting a president devoid of character and pretending it’s comparable to 1982.

If you support him, just own it. That guy has been off the air for 35 years and dead for 20.

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@gman6938 @KirkHerbstreit Just said the same thing. It’s a way to gatekeep access for rich people only.

Don’t believe for a second all of a sudden black athletes aren’t good at baseball after 1995 or whatever. They just couldn’t participate in the system as easily.

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@KirkHerbstreit I honestly think in particular baseball has this system to gatekeep ‘baseball players’ apart from the best athletes playing in other sports. Buying access. I don’t think it’s an accident lower income and black kids play at declining rates.

Same thing happening in hoops now too.

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@PurpyNFL Not saying best career-but highest level of quarterbacking I’ve seen in a game was either him or peak Mahomes. Both of those guys could (maybe ‘can’ with Mahomes but I’m skeptical) single-handedly demolish teams.

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@AbbeyMastracco I love it. It’s a lost art.

Plus I believe that psychologically it helped with his credibility as a young outsider and now it’s his brand.

[Jeff Peterson @43County]

@PurpyNFL Fair. I guess arm strength is how I interpreted it, probably incorrectly.