New statement from Scott Pelley:
“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.”
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
@truthskywalker7@TheatreofZen Yeah, that’s not the problem. The problem is halfway through pre-production of Season 4 someone said “meh, let’s just realize this whole season as a movie.”
@sw_holocron I’m not an ER nurse or a doctor but I’m curious about how long you are obligated to watch the ekg flatline before you call in the coroner to take the body.
Trump: "You take a look. The Lincoln Memorial -- it was built, I guess, a little after the Lincoln Memorial. It's embarrassing. It was so horrible. It was filthy dirty. It was Biden."
Trump says his wife has asked him to stop dancing to the “gay national anthem”
“That's why I did so well with the gay vote, I think, because of that song”
@timecaptales White lady in the 70s that pretends to have never listened to Motown finds out ‘urban’ music is hip. Fixed the title for you. Love Carol Burnett but that is exactly what this is.
@nypost Ewwwww. Now I’m waiting for Carl Winslow or any other TGIF star to ruin my childhood too Go on … after Bill Cosby and Michael Jackson I’ve learned that everyone I ever idolized as a kid is fucking gross.
@RetroNewsNow I need to research more but oof, I don’t think this cast liked each other too much. Seemed like Bob Denver tried playing peacemaker while Dawn Wells and Tina Louise wanted to kill each other. All the while Alan Hale wanted to genuinely choke Denver.
DEVELOPING: The San Diego Police Department said it is responding to a reported active shooter at the Islamic Center of San Diego.
The center says it is the largest mosque in San Diego County.
https://t.co/9Gve5wQ03G
@StateDept I love that Trump mocked you drinking water, called you Little Marco, and said you melted down on stage so bad it looked like you “came out of a swimming pool.”