Garrett Barry

Reporter @ctvnews

[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

[Garrett Barry @GarrettBarry]

@yaoibunga I get to have this conversation almost w every day at work. “Poked away” lately

[Cory Lavalette @corylav]

Vegas PR staff shut down any questions to Hart about the Hockey Canada court case.

[Garrett Barry @GarrettBarry]

Amazing what can happen to a reputation when you play against Karel Vejmelka (.885) Lukas Dostal (.870) and Scott Wedgwood (.811) rather than say Sergei Bobrovsky

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

"I think our team is deeper and a better team than what he had played on in Toronto, not that Toronto didn't have real good teams."

Kelly McCrimmon speaks on why Mitch Marner has found success in Vegas.

[Matt Bruenig @MattBruenig]

a classic

[Sean @panoptisean]

I’d like to outfit my apartment with a GameCube just so any visitors can play Pikmin 2 if they want to. If they don’t want to play Pikmin 2, I’d also offer Pikmin as an alternative.

[Garrett Barry @GarrettBarry]

Newfoundland and Labrador has dropped a lawsuit against the federal government that was hoping to force changes to the equalization program, according to @PremierofNL office.

[Garrett Barry @GarrettBarry]

You may not be able to see reported news on Facebook anymore but you can see endless amounts of actual libel against almost anyone featured on a newscast or in a newspaper. I think that's bad!

[Garrett Barry @GarrettBarry]

There's a massive war underway against your ability to know things that are true, verified, reliable, fact.

[Ivy @IvyAstrix]

end of an era

[CTV News @CTVNews]

'Letting it rip': Beyblade fanatics are giving childhood craze another spin https://t.co/JeMDuyBA3J

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

Hi @6ixbuzztv, where did you happen to get this video from?

(I know, I edited it.)

[CTV Saskatoon @ctvsaskatoon]

Sask. legislature finally adds washrooms for women MLAs https://t.co/75Msyml8jw

[NTV News @NTVNewsNL]

Employees speak out after bar held up at gunpoint, suspect out on bail https://t.co/Ds6A44Yg4F

[Garrett Barry @GarrettBarry]

Finally, a calculator that can do your math homework

[Max Spero @max_spero_]

legendary pull on facebook marketplace

[Noovo Info @NoovoInfo]

Le mystère plane toujours sur le meurtre de Dana Bradley.

https://t.co/pmvpDAd3Qq

[Ryan Cooke @ryancookeNL]

I also have an issue with local “influencers” posting my work as if it’s their own and adding flourishes — probably also using AI — in an attempt to gain followers. If you’re going to copy me, at least do it in full and credit the source.

[Ryan Cooke @ryancookeNL]

I’ve spent the last couple months covering the Dean Penney murder trial and something has really bothered me.

People are taking our work, running it through AI platforms and posting utter slop on Facebook as if it’s their own work. Please don’t share this garbage.

[Matthew Belloni @MattBelloni]

Stars don’t like seeing themselves as they are, and not as they think they are, and these days they don’t have to…

[TSN Hockey @TSNHockey]

Hockey Canada refuses to participate in a new national public registry with Sport Integrity Canada unless the federal government indemnifies it against possible defamation lawsuits.

Story from @rwesthead: https://t.co/u76ReIzv0M

[CTV News Toronto @CTVToronto]

Speeding on this Toronto street up more than 200% following speed camera removal: data
https://t.co/VYemGlCCpO