Monica Rix

Reporter/Anchor/Pop Culture Junkie at Bloomberg. Formerly CBS News, Fox News & iHeart Media.

[Monica Rix @MonicaRix]

Not paying a billionaire for an emoji, so let’s put a📌 in this —

[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

[TIME @TIME]

TIME's new cover: An American Pope https://t.co/C9H8rVBT4P

[Bloomberg @business]

BREAKING: Warren Buffett, who built Berkshire Hathaway into a business valued at more than $1.16 trillion, will step down at year-end after six decades atop the conglomerate. https://t.co/2zf0xiFhlN

[Monica Rix @MonicaRix]

@talkradiojoe Good to be back!

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Pope Francis died at 88, the Vatican announced Monday, ending a groundbreaking pontificate that sought to reshape the Roman Catholic Church into a more inclusive institution.

Follow live updates: https://t.co/KR44hC1tlG

[Variety @Variety]

Val Kilmer, Star of 'Batman Forever,' 'Tombstone,' Dies at 65 https://t.co/iTfHQcI19v

[ABC News @ABC]

BREAKING: George Foreman, the former heavyweight boxing champion known as much for his gregarious personality as his vicious right hook, has died. He was 76. https://t.co/GIHLU8yw3C

[Monica Rix @MonicaRix]

Instagram is down… and so am I.

[Monica Rix @MonicaRix]

#SNL50 was spectacular!

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Adam Sandler's Song: 50 Years
#SNL50

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:

• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

wait why

[Philadelphia Eagles @Eagles]

SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!

[Monica Rix @MonicaRix]

This was very good. #SuperBowl

[XXL Magazine @XXL]

Kendrick Lamar’s dancers form an American flag during his #SuperBowl halftime performance of “Humble.”

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Most Memorable Grammy Moments, From Beyoncé’s Historic Wins to L.A. Wildfire Tributes to Kanye West's Shocking Red Carpet Moment https://t.co/sr7ybMGdP2

[Monica Rix @MonicaRix]

@XXL Little more salt in that wound 😂

[Monica Rix @MonicaRix]

BEYONCE!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!! #AlbumOfTheYear #GRAMMYs

[ABC News @ABC]

JUST IN: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded to Trump's tariffs Saturday evening by announcing the country will implement 25% tariffs on $155 billion worth of U.S. goods. https://t.co/wg2RsEboA3

[Monica Rix @MonicaRix]

Just take my money…

[Monica Rix @MonicaRix]

@yashar We need this.

[ABC News @ABC]

The 2025 Oscar nominations have been revealed. Check out the full list: https://t.co/v85DmpByFh