Steven Tonthat

Emmy-winning @OPB producer for @OPBArtBeat. Viet Am. Pickleball savage. Tweets are mine.

[Steven Tonthat @Steventonthat]

Some news:

[OPB @OPB]

@OPB is pushing pause on our use of Twitter as a platform to tell and share our stories. Why? Read more here: https://t.co/QAp04ZZigq

But there are lots of ways to stay in touch 🧵 1/9

[The New York Times @nytimes]

In an exclusive interview, Scott Pelley spoke about being fired from “60 Minutes,” and why he thinks Bari Weiss should leave her job as the CBS News editor in chief. He also responded to President Trump’s comments. Watch, read or listen to “The Interview.” https://t.co/e5VrJg0k4m

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

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#RolandGarros

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and Democrat Xavier Becerra has advanced to the general election for California governor.
https://t.co/e7n1E2SSt8

[The Associated Press @AP]

Scott Pelley may have lost his job after publicly blasting CBS management. But for many workers, he lived out a fantasy. https://t.co/Qch15n0CfX

[Portland Fire @theportlandfire]

dribbling down the court … 👀🥞

Happy International Corgi Day to Pancake!

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

New '60 Minutes' Executive Producer Sends Out Memo After Scott Pelley Firing, Says Show Will Never Be "Instructed By The Ownership" Of CBS On Stories https://t.co/Vf8LfHDFVf

[Variety @Variety]

The Writers Guild of America condemns Scott Pelley's firing at "60 Minutes" amid CBS News' "cruel and needless layoffs."

"In the past year, CBS has enacted cruel and needless layoffs across the organization and shuttered CBS News Radio. In addition, based on a string of public reporting and confidential reports from WGAE members, it is clear that CBS brass is engaged in a near-constant level of editorial interference that would have previously been unthinkable... These assaults on CBS News, an institution of American journalism for nearly a century, are more than mere ideological interference with the news. They display a profound contempt for the journalism profession, for our members who have dedicated their lives to informing the public about the world, and for the ethics that underpin true journalism, chief among them honesty, integrity, and objectivity."

https://t.co/ZobiIYS6p4

[Pubity @pubity]

June 4 is International Corgi Day.

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026) 🤍

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

'Backrooms' Director Kane Parsons Calls AI "Genuinely Harmful" To Creativity: "Cultural And Economic Rot" https://t.co/w5DQi6EgnH

[Steven Tonthat @Steventonthat]

Jalen Brunson could win a chip before Luka

[Variety @Variety]

"60 Minutes" legend Steve Kroft says the news program has become "disastrous" under CBS News boss Bari Weiss.

“It’s the highest rated news program on television, and it has been that way for more than 50 years. The audience was up about 9% last year. Why would you mess with that?" he asks in an interview that's airing after Scott Pelley and other journalists were fired from the show.

https://t.co/P88WxWJPSa

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

BREAKING: Russell Wilson, the 10x Pro Bowler and Super Bowl champion, has officially retired from the NFL after 14 seasons.

[ABC News @ABC]

The Stanley Pup is back.

The 90-minute broadcast, which dovetails with the NHL's Stanley Cup final, is returning for a third year and features 32 rescue dogs, all up for adoption and representing each of the 32 NHL teams. https://t.co/IhRTFikj30

[Ryan Di Corpo @corpo_ryan]

Stephen Colbert, fired
Scott Pelley, fired
Sharyn Alfonsi, fired
Cecilia Vega, fired
Tanya Simon, fired
Draggan Mihailovich, fired
Anderson Cooper, resigned
Scott MacFarlane, resigned
John Dickerson, left
Maurice DuBois, left
Bill Owens, resigned
Wendy McMahon, resigned

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

Scott Pelley Responds To Bari Weiss, Says She Misled Staffers About What Transpired In Final Meeting With CBS News Brass https://t.co/VuwolfMqEI

[Steven Tonthat @Steventonthat]

Scott Pelley was the one who broke trust and mutual respect??? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Bari Weiss Tells CBS News Staff That Scott Pelley Broke "Trust and Mutual Respect" https://t.co/xOLiIp6SdB

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Scott Pelley just issued a statement on Bari's remarks this morning:

[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

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The staff of “60 Minutes” didn’t exactly roll out the Welcome Wagon for new executive producer Nick Bilton on Monday. 🔗 https://t.co/9fXOcbt58o