Jon Gay

Just a humble cameraman, who really likes to tell visual stories.

[Jon Gay @CameraWrangler]

https://t.co/qeEDF9lNlB

[Eileen Gay @EileensWorldToo]

@nyi_news @TrumpTruthOnX This fact check is absolutely accurate. I sat in on the entire presentation process. There are plenty of reasons this project should not go forward. The trump post is a lie. I would not be surprised if he breaks ground AGAIN to desecrate another of our country’s historic sites.

[Jon Gay @CameraWrangler]

This is the Truth after listening to Public comments.

[The New York Independent @nyi_news]

Fact Check: The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) did not pass an 8-1 approval for President Trump's proposed 250-foot Triumphal Arch; instead, the panel voted 9 to 1 to merely advance the project to its next review phase. The 9-1 vote required the Trump administration to address critical gaps and "do some homework" regarding the monument's impact on local traffic and flight paths before receiving final approval.

[Jon Gay @CameraWrangler]

@tsteele93 As a News Cameraman, I really appreciate this very quick shot in the movie.

[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

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

NEW: Backstory on the drama at CBS News tonight...

Bari Weiss, Nick Bilton, Tom Cibrowski, and CBS HR invited Scott Pelley to a meeting at 5pm ET tonight to discuss a path forward after his vocal protest earlier this week in the 60 Minutes all-hands.

The two sides did not find common ground. Bari & Co. were left with sense that Scott was not open minded about reaching detente; meanwhile, Scott maintained strong frustrations with leadership.

Scott left meeting and was told they'd have an update on his employment in a matter of minutes... instead, Bari and her team deliberated for several hours.

At around 9:30 p.m., Nick Bilton, the new 60 Minutes E.P., sent this letter to Scott (see tweet below) in which he tells him he has been terminated "for cause." He also sent a memo to staff (see tweet below that).

The language in Nick's memo suggests a legal fight coming. No response yet from Pelley.

[Steve Futterman @sfutterman]

CBS RADIO'S FINALE - 1927-2026 - The final CBS News Radio broadcast. This was the 11.31pm eastern time broadcast. The anchor is Christopher Cruise. From the Broadcast Center on West 57th. It was a pretty good 99 year run. @CBSNews @CBSRadio

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Jon Gay @CameraWrangler]

@RyanBalton @CBSEveningNews Cameraman

[Erik Seidel @Erik_Seidel]

Anyone who thinks the new tax law will result in more revenue for the govt is completely delusional https://t.co/4SHirWEvEe

[Jon Gay @CameraWrangler]

@News4Reno @BenMargiott Good thing we don’t have to worry about a tsunami on lake Lahonton. 😉

[Jon Gay @CameraWrangler]

@Lenslinger I have shot 3-4 for family and friends.
Each one ended in a divorce.
When asked I tell people that, they go away.
Just an idea.

[Jon Gay @CameraWrangler]

@AutelRobotics Gee .@AutelRobotics how’bout getting Autel Explorer back on Apple App Store so we can sell older drones and buy the new ones. Or maybe a Trade in ? You just made a bunch of door stops.
And DJI is S,O.L. for the moment.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

To be truly fluent in English,
you must know your shits

Dogshit: Very poor quality
Bullshit: Not true
Horseshit: Nonsense
Apeshit: Rambunctious
Batshit: Insane
Chickenshit: Cowards
Ratshit: Poor quality
No shit: Obviously
Holy shit: Unbelievable
Hot shit: Very good
Dipshit: Total dumbass
Tuff shit: Take it or leave it.
Jack shit: Nothing
The shit: Perfection

[Jon Gay @CameraWrangler]

@calvertphoto @Aces 🤙

[Jon Gay @CameraWrangler]

From Reuters

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson in a statement dismissed the rallies as "Trump Derangement Therapy ‌Sessions" of ⁠interest only to journalists.

Wow we have Millions of journalists

[Jon Gay @CameraWrangler]

.@KOLO8 sure seems that if Dish Network is under contract to supply customers with local TV stations and they drop a local station, they are in breach of contract to their costumers.

[Jon Gay @CameraWrangler]

Somewhat reluctantly, I’m slipping to the Dark Side.

[Jon Gay @CameraWrangler]

@drew_amato What’s old is new again.

[Jon Gay @CameraWrangler]

@AutelRobotics Hope you have a good Show.
How’bout you get Autel back on Apple Store so we can actually FLY.
OR SELL AND GET A NEW DRONE.