Tonya

CLD Teacher, MAT Earlham College, TESOL Miami University

[John Antonik @JohnAntonik]

Teachers matter! JJ Wetherholt told his 5th grade teacher, Mrs. Ingoldsby, that he wanted to be a Major League Baseball player when he grew up.

Yesterday, JJ invited Mrs. Ingoldsby to Busch Stadium for Teachers Appreciation Night and caught her ceremonial first pitch!

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

@WVUSports Looking great!

[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

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

@CoachAllenDT Took awhile this year, but at least they are now. I wondered where they were when Miami was 15 and 0…the swim team was there though.

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

@CBSSportsCBB Stay classy coach.

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

Don’t mind me, I’m just finishing my mom’s refresher @Starbucks

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

@Larryferlazzo PLC

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

@NFL When you beat the chiefs…

[Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell]

Why didn’t he tweet this on Columbus Day?

[Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer]

Salt Lake City seniors heading out for a #NoKingsProtest in front of their assisted living facility bright and early this morning.

[Colorado Rockies @Rockies]

Back at home 🏠

Repost for your chance to win your own City Connect jersey courtesy of @ColoLottery!

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

@SethDavisHoops AI…

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

@KirkHerbstreit @nicklodolo @Reds And I got to see it :) At least the Rockies have a beautiful view…

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

@WVUhoops @WVUhoops

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

@WVUhoops @small_javon @WVUhoops

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

@WVUhoops And we will be there :)

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

Excited to get feeling good tonight with @dshawmusicbox :)

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

@neil_chilson @JDVance1 I, too, come from the same background and was raised in a city that connects to his. His book resonates with me in so many ways, and even though my dad always spoke about the Appalachian way, I really didn’t understand until I read the book. I think you have said it best…

[Tonya @TonyaMU1993]

@Enquirer

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@DenverChannel