🚨 HEARTBREAKING: Scott Pelley Sounded Like A Man Attending A Funeral.
Not for a person.
For a profession.
🔥 That’s why his defense of journalism hit so hard.
Scott Pelley confirmed on the record that CBS management ordered him to “inject falsehoods” into 60 Minutes coverage.
He named Bari Weiss directly. He said she was brought in to neutralize independent journalism inside the network.
He told 60 Minutes’ new leadership she was “murdering the show.”
Pelley spent 24 years at CBS News.
He just put his name on the record against the institution that built his career.
The Paramount-Skydance merger closed.
The new ownership installed Weiss. Pelley is the most senior on-air voice at CBS News describing what’s happening inside.
This is what institutional capture sounds like from inside the institution.
Angela Bassett and her husband Courtney B. Vance, two kids and 29 years together ❤️
They got married in 1997… long before all the awards and red carpets that came later
Scott Pelley told the NYT that Bari Weiss attempted to change a segment about the murder of Renee Good. He says Weiss demanded that Good come across as more violent and to describe her as driving toward the officer who shot her.
Who is never going to watch CBS News again!
.@Timodc on Trump storming out of his interview with Kristen Welker:
"It's unbelievable, honestly, that the American people could put this fucking ass clown in the White House."
🟥 Ok, let me be frank...
This 'Meet The Press' interview with Trump is the most UNHINGED (and scariest) interview ever, with any world leader, let alone the President of the United States.
AND ... he abruptly stormed off before the interview ended, like a petulant toddler! 👶🏼
AND he detests strong women that don’t allow him to spin his psychotic narratives, unchallenged.
Listen, anyone who still supports this guy and thinks he is still fit to be the President of the USA ... well ... they are either being disingenuous, or they themselves are also not playing with a full deck... 🧏🏻♂️
What CBS just did to Scott Pelley is an absolute disgrace. After 37 years of integrity, the network fired a broadcast legend simply because he refused to put flat-out lies into a story to please the administration. CBS corporate owners wanted a submissive newsroom that scripts lies on command, so they threw one of America's most trusted journalists to the wolves for choosing the truth over a corporate paycheck.
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Tomorrow is @GabbyGiffords’ birthday and I want everyone to wish her a happy birthday. I just blocked her so she won't see this, but I know it'll make her happy.
During Barack Obama's historic 2009 presidential inauguration, Denzel Washington was one of the first people to arrive & waited hours to see history