Karen Pitton

Creative PR pro with a penchant for beaches and running. And wine. Michigan vs. Everybody. #GoBlue

[Karen Pitton @KPA2]

@dannarebb Sending prayers and good thoughts

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@BigJakeCLE No. What hit a nerve and prompted the reaction was that Eric Weddle was at practice as a guest as part of a recruiting tour with his son. He was not there to critique anyone on the team, especially publicly.

[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

[Karen Pitton @KPA2]

Given everything that has been reported, I’m not surprised CBS fired Scott Pelley. However, I’d absolutely trust a Scott Pelley news story far, far more than I’d trust anything from those people now running the CBS news division, including 60 Minutes.

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@SoapDigest Not happy with this decision in the slightest

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@EmilinaB Such encouraging news! Very happy to see this! 🙏🏻

[Karen Pitton @KPA2]

@elizagnnnn There are many places to get inexpensive cards.

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@tracesoffaith I went to a Catholic school and we learned their names

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Thanks to @EWScrippsCo, I am without @ABCNetwork programming. So sick of all these disputes and the rampant greed that continually drives costs up and leaves consumers in the lurch.

[Karen Pitton @KPA2]

@Rosenberg_Mike I’m very sorry to see this. I’ve enjoyed and respect your writing.

As a veteran of a few similar meetings, I can say while I miss what was left behind, I’m appreciative of the experiences and friendships that eventually followed that I wouldn’t have had otherwise. Best wishes!

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[Karen Pitton @KPA2]

@msmithca11 @TracyTea That was my thought

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@chengelis @detroitnews Enjoyed the article! “An interesting six months” is a gracious way to phrase it. 🤭

[Karen Pitton @KPA2]

@LizMastersSC Welcome back!

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@3YearLetterman Chumbawamba 🥰

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@MIHouseDems @MI_Republicans Well, that’s crass.

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@BeerlyFootball Michigan. But the view of Lake Washington from Husky Stadium is second to none

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Ha! The Wizard of Oz 😂 When those flying monkeys took to the skies, I ran into the kitchen so I wouldn’t have to watch it

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Name a movie that traumatized you when you were a kid. I’ll start:

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@HollensbeAmanda @jaygreco194737 @andrewcaravello @adamfeuerstein @ThomasOwenMcCa1 @kshaughnessy2 @LisainNJUSA @SusanneTrimbath @stephmase22 How horrible! 😡

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@AndyGoBlue23 Wine, not wind. Oops. 🙄

[Karen Pitton @KPA2]

@AndyGoBlue23 Unopened. It’s a better keepsake that way. Plus I’ve been told the wind is definitely mediocre