Chris Blake

Writer, editor. Fan of NY Yanks/URI Rams.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Asked for actual evidence of his claims, Trump throws a tantrum and runs away.

Notice—he never offered a shred or scintilla of evidence.

He just yelled at her and ran away.

[Chris Blake @CGBlake1]

Love this video. Let’s go, Knicks!

[CP "The Fanchise" @CPTheFanchise]

Man this was beautifully done. And Clyde to start it off? smh unreal. LET'S GO KNICKS!!!!!!!!

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you support Scott Pelley after CBS News has just fired him.

[Chris Blake @CGBlake1]

Everybody should read this statement. I have given up on CBS News. Incompetent and politically biased leadership is unacceptable.

[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

[Chris Blake @CGBlake1]

Disgraceful. CBS is in ruins.

[Variety @Variety]

CBS News has terminated “60 Minutes” veteran Scott Pelley after the journalist and executives felt they could not find a way to work together.

The move comes after a heated public argument Monday between Pelley and Nick Bilton, the former tech journalist installed last week by editorial chief Bari Weiss. https://t.co/wXXBSSZyKv

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"Bari Weiss is murdering 60 Minutes. She is doing so not out of incompetence or foolishness, but with malice aforethought. She is doing it at the behest of her corporate patron."
https://t.co/ptjRbzqB0k

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

START SPREADING THE NEWS 🗞️

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

YOUR KNICKS WIN THE EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS!!!!!!

[CBS Sports @CBSSports]

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 27 YEARS, THE NEW YORK KNICKS ARE HEADED TO THE NBA FINALS

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

“Habemus Papam”. Un anno fa, la fumata bianca sulla Cappella Sistina annunciava al mondo che la Chiesa aveva scelto il successore di Pietro.

In questa occasione desidero rinnovare a Papa Leone XIV un pensiero riconoscente per il suo instancabile messaggio di fede, speranza, pace, dialogo tra i popoli e vicinanza agli ultimi. In un tempo complesso e segnato da grandi incertezze, la sua voce rappresenta un punto di riferimento a livello globale, per i cristiani e non solo.

[Rhody Vault @RhodyVault]

🐏 Read about the latest Rhode Island commit, @FontenetJason on the Vault Substack.

Article: https://t.co/HHizkpiMpK

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Well done, Ukraine !!!

[Rhody WBB @rhody_wbb]

📺 || Colleen Mullen Introductory Press Conference 🐏

#GoRhody

https://t.co/MrcGyxcRz6

[Chris Blake @CGBlake1]

Karaban is a class act. He will be missed.

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

“It hurts right now, it hurts a lot right now… I’m ultimately leaving UConn at a better place right now than where I started. I gave it everything I got… All I thought about was UConn basketball every single day.”

An emotional Alex Karaban after his last game for UConn.

[Chris Blake @CGBlake1]

Agreed. And mid majors like the A10 function as farm systems for the P5 schools. It can’t go on like this.

[hawkhillhardwood @HHHardwood]

In these many situations it’s fans and boosters finding the rosters. ‘If you want a competitive team, YOU need to donate x dollars.’ I really don’t see that as a sustainable model. Feels like a major uphill battle at 80-90% of division 1 schools.

[Chris Blake @CGBlake1]

Albina is a big loss. I was hoping she might stay.

[Zach Austin @zachaustinpxp]

Albina Syla and Eva Agba are both reportedly entering the transfer portal after two years at #URI, per @TaliaGoodmanWBB.

Syla served as a captain and was named the Most Outstanding Player in this year’s #A10WBB Tournament.

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia!
Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia!

-Charles Wesley

[Chris Blake @CGBlake1]

Wouldn’t be surprised if she ends up with Tammi at Florida. High impact player who is good enough to play in the SEC

[Talia Goodman @TaliaGoodmanWBB]

NEWS: Rhode Island’s Vanessa Harris plans to enter the transfer portal, she told @On3.

The 5-10 freshman averaged 10.2 ppg and 3.8 rpg this season.

TRACKER: https://t.co/wYv1Ze6EPC

[Chris Blake @CGBlake1]

Not good. Showed some promise and was bound to get more playing time next season.

[Ryan Center Wifi @KeaneyBlueBlood]

Looks like Damone King will be entering the portal