Clark

Alabama 🏈, Typography Nerd, Dolly Parton Acolyte, Proud Liberal, Atheist, & Pluralist. I don’t have Car Brain (He/Him) 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸

[Clark @CRC2622]

This might be my favorite tweet of all time

[Pat Dubois @patdubois]

as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days

[Clark @CRC2622]

@ChrisCillizza To think there was a time in which you were mildly respected

[Clark @CRC2622]

@peterbakernyt @cuneytdil Didn't need a study to confirm what was obvious.

[Clark @CRC2622]

@VoteHub Great news!

[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

[Clark @CRC2622]

@NilesGApol Nothing, sadly

[Clark @CRC2622]

@abbyronson @MikeRogersForMI Pathetic

[Clark @CRC2622]

@a_r_marshall @tweetelissa @kenyanmcduffie Cars are what is holding back Union Market, this is laugable

[Clark @CRC2622]

The judges are really coming through today!

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America. 

He embodies the broken system we’re running against.

It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

[Clark @CRC2622]

I was born there

[Andrew Anderson @uscfan981]

Say something nice about Alabama.

[Clark @CRC2622]

No need to wait, they can have him right now

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "I'm right now at 99% in Israel. I could run for prime minister, so maybe after I do this, I'll go to Israel and run for prime minister."

[Clark @CRC2622]

HOA mafias have driven this decline in creativity

[Nostalgia @NostalgiaFolder]

We gradually stopped making things with personality

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This is absolutely disgusting.

This bigoted garbage and antisemitism should be nowhere near our politics.

If you’re in TX-35, vote for @johnnygarciatx.

And the donors behind the Republican super PAC funding her should be exposed.

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

It’s telling that Graham is never this concerned about poverty, health care access, or anything that would actually make people’s lives better.

Just bigotry all the way down. That’s what Jesus taught him.

[Clark @CRC2622]

Everyone loves glizzies

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Canadian police said they caught a hot dog thief this week, and the bandit did not make an attempt to conceal the evidence.

A constable had spotted a fox carrying five or six full hot dogs in its mouth. https://t.co/rWn3W6r3mm

[Clark @CRC2622]

@FriedrichHayek @ryanburge Life would be destroyed? Such hyperbole! You would find new community outside of closed minded religious folks. Not hard, a bunch of us have done it.

[Clark @CRC2622]

@FriedrichHayek @ryanburge Why would an Atheist be reluctant to identify as such?

[Clark @CRC2622]

@daniel_mac8 WTF does any of that mean?

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: Expectations are quickly lowering for the trip to China. How big of a factor is Trump’s cognitive decline at this point?

McBride: Well, he wasn’t starting from a high bar

[Clark @CRC2622]

@ryanburge Your framing is interesting. Calling something that happens 1/5 of the time not common reads disingenuous.