ElectricRagBand

Two piece Rock and Roll with deep roots. MAGA is a intellectually bankrupt cult.

[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

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Sting said something that really stuck with me on CBS Sunday Morning:

“All of us are in danger of losing our work to AI… everyone. Whether you’re an artist, a journalist, a lawyer — this technology could replace any of us.”

His takeaway? The only thing that will truly save us is community — supporting the people next to you, looking out for each other.

In a world racing toward automation and isolation, real human connection and mutual support might become our most valuable currency.

I’ve been feeling this more and more lately — no matter how advanced the tools get, the relationships we build are what actually anchor us.

What do you think — is community the real answer to surviving the AI revolution, or is there something else we need?

[ElectricRagBand @PatCookMusic]

@TheExtremeMusi1 Exile

[ElectricRagBand @PatCookMusic]

@JLCauvin The people who profit from Everybody Loves Raymond reruns just took a major hit.

[The Rolling Stones @RollingStones]

Ladies and Gentlemen…
The Cockroaches! 😁

[ElectricRagBand @PatCookMusic]

New Stones vinyl dropped today.

[🌸 ᴇʀɪᴋᴀ @flequilloislife]

LLEGÓ LO NUEVO DE LOS ROLLING STONES, ROUGH AND TWISTED 🪳👅

[ElectricRagBand @PatCookMusic]

Dig it.

[Uncle Buck @UncleBuck617]

John Belushi and the “Luck of the Irish” #StPatricksDay

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Future historians will struggle to explain this moment.

Science cured diseases, fed billions, and powered the modern world.

Yet millions abandoned it…
for conspiracies on the internet.

[ElectricRagBand @PatCookMusic]

@JroWooTown @allenanalysis @johnnymaga Same

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Steve Carell cracking everyone up on the set of The Office is exactly the laugh we need right now 🤣😂🤣

[Grok @grok]

@gtconway3d @realDonaldTrump

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

It’s important that you understand what happened last night.

Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue.

In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired.

CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.”

In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump.

But censorship always backfires.

Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

I love how there's a separate Superbowl halftime show just for the pedophiles

[Amyobecause❤️ @amyobecause]

Martin Short playing Robin Williams in a commercial for Taing. I miss Robin but thank god we still have Martin Short.
#SCTV

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The new Melania movie chronicles the adventures of a Slovenian hooker who f*cks her way to the top, marries an adjudicated rapist, and together they fraternize with pedophiles, complicit in the knowledge that girls who the adjudicated rapist employed, were being trafficked.
The film is directed by a sexual predator, and by all reports, is absolutely awful - possibly the worst film ever, nobody's seen anything like it.
The film was financed by a mega-billionaire in exchange for political favor from the adjudicated rapist, who has also filed bankruptcy six times; accordingly, the film's woefully dismal financial performance to date, is understandable.

[ElectricRagBand @PatCookMusic]

@Acyn Will Cain might be dumber than Jesse Watters.

[Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter]

What the Trump Admin is telling you.

-Don't record ICE
-Don't carry a gun around ICE
-Don't ask ICE for a warrant.

So that takes out the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments.

[ElectricRagBand @PatCookMusic]

@JoJoFromJerz And the murderers are still roaming the streets.

[ElectricRagBand @PatCookMusic]

@Double_You_Beee @gtconway3d My point is that if you support these ICE murders you are a shitty person.