David Bataller

Communicator. Storyteller. Father to Viviana, #IdenticalTriplets & #Frenchie Troy. #Carlsbad native. Diehard @Padres 🤎⚾️💛 fan. 2x @USC grad #FightOn✌🏻⛳️❤️

[David Bataller @DBataller]

❤️🫡

[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

[David Bataller @DBataller]

Awful. RIP to the best investigate news magazine that ever existed. #60Minutes

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

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

[David Bataller @DBataller]

⚾️❤️✌🏼💛⚾️

[USC Baseball @USC_Baseball]

COLLEGE STATION REGIONAL CHAMPS 😤✌️

#FightOn x @WellsFargo

[David Bataller @DBataller]

So good... Goosebumps 🔥

[Actu Foot @ActuFoot_]

🚨 Vidéo INCROYABLE des supporters de Hull City chantant « Someone Like You » À L’UNISSON pour célébrer leur montée en Premier League. 🏆😍

Essayez de ne pas avoir les frissons.

[David Bataller @DBataller]

Arizona out here just showing off on a Sunday... ❤️🔥🥰

[David Bataller @DBataller]

#FTFO Sam Darnold! ❤️🏈💛

[The RifleMan 🇺🇸 @RivalDarkSide]

The most underestimated QB in the NFL.

[David Bataller @DBataller]

Another Patriot All America in the books! No better way to end the year with reflection on what really matters in life... and what really doesn't 🇺🇸⛳️❤️

Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉🍾👊🏼

[David Bataller @DBataller]

🏈🔥✌🏼

#FTFO

[ESPN @espn]

PUT IT ON A POSTER 🔥

Jaden Richardson with the catch of the game 🤯

[David Bataller @DBataller]

Good. ✌🏼

[Ryan Kartje @RyanKartje]

USC and Notre Dame were close to announcing a continuation of their rivalry earlier this season, a source told @latimes. USC was ready to compromise and play the ’26 game in November

But then USC learned of ND’s agreement w/ the CFP to have a guaranteed spot if in the top 12.

[David Bataller @DBataller]

🇨🇴⚽️❤️⚽️🇨🇴

[Selección Colombia @FCFSeleccionCol]

📸 ¡𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚́𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐨! 🥰

🇨🇴🆚🇳🇿

#LaSeleNosUne🇨🇴
#VenConColombia 🇨🇴

[David Bataller @DBataller]

I hope they charge for the clinic next time! 🇨🇴⚽️❤️⚽️🇨🇴

[Selección Colombia @FCFSeleccionCol]

¡Finaliza el partido! ¡Gran victoria de nuestra Selección Colombia de Mayores!

🇨🇴 4-0 🇲🇽

#LaSeleNosUne🇨🇴

[David Bataller @DBataller]

🇨🇴⚽️❤️⚽️🇨🇴

[Selección Colombia @FCFSeleccionCol]

¡FINAAAAAAL DEL PARTIDO! ¡ESTAMOS EN SEMIFINALEEEEES!

🇨🇴 3-2 🇪🇸

#LaSeleNosUne🇨🇴

[David Bataller @DBataller]

😕🙏🏼

[David Bataller @DBataller]

🤎⚾️💛

#LFGSD

[MLB @MLB]

THE @PADRES WALK IT OFF INTO THE #POSTSEASON! 😤

[David Bataller @DBataller]

Still waiting to see four quarters put together. But we'll take this W! ❤️🏈💛

#FTFO

[USC Football ✌️ @uscfb]

TROJANS > SPARTANS

#FightOn | @WellsFargo

[David Bataller @DBataller]

Hell yeah! #Carlsbad representing on the national stage... what a start to his career! #CBadTime💜🏈💛

[FOX College Football @CFBONFOX]

Julian Sayin is off to a historic start for @OhioStateFB 🌰🔥

He becomes the first QB to make his first career start vs the No. 1 team and win since 1984 👏

[David Bataller @DBataller]

Finally someone with a platform comes out and says it.

This 👇🏼. Period.

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

"You can't leave San Diego and go to LA and expect me to still be a fan."

Mickey Moniak says he went two years without a favorite NFL team before he chose the Steelers because of his family roots

[David Bataller @DBataller]

Gotta LOVE October feels in August. What a game! #LFGSD

[San Diego Padres @Padres]

#PadresWin!

FINAL: Padres 2, Dodgers 1

[David Bataller @DBataller]

C'mon @Google 🤦🏽‍♂️

#Padres

[David Bataller @DBataller]

Robbie Alomar at 2B >>> Crone but besides that this is decent. #LFGSD

[FOX Sports: MLB @MLBONFOX]

From Gwynn to Tatis Jr.—generations of Padres stars in one lineup

Here’s the all-time San Diego squad