Amy Martz

Page designer, headline writer. ND farm kid roots. Chicago transplant. Big City Schmidty, Norman the pup, UND hockey, Twins baseball, all the books.

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

Talk about a #glowup! Dec. 2014 and Dec. 2019. #BigCitySchmidty

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

@JamieWhistle What am I missing here? How is being taught about friendship and family a bad thing???

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

@GQMagazine Dude…nooooooooo

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

@TinyWriterLaura That’s the Shar pei in him! He also has a lot of neck lol. He’s the perfect mutt mix. 🥰

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

@JDVance Weren’t you told to stay off social media by your bosses?

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

@IMAO_ Hey, Fronk! It’s really, really important to be educated about a topic before speaking on it. So perhaps do a little more reading about how taxes work so next time you don’t embarrass yourself as badly as you did this time.

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

Friendly reminder that Pride isn't about turning your straight kids into gay kids. It's about not turning gay kids into dead kids.

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

@KyleLascoShow @HunterBiden How’s that word salad taste? 🥗

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

@kirsten93_ Oh, he’s so very handsome!

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

The most unappealing group of men I’ve ever seen.

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

This is a real photo. This is all they’ve got.

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

@nickbilton I wonder if it will be as much of an honor to be the guy who destroyed 60 Minutes?

[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

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

@Georgesantos @ClaraJeffery @RepOgles “I never thought the leopards would eat MY face.”

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@WhiteHouse You guys thought this was something good to tweet????

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

@agreenphotog My Schmidty is jealous

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

@oneinvestorguy @BlackLabelAdvsr Family, job and medical conditions are legitimate reasons ffs

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

Big fan of this guy.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.

Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions, and that is what makes us exceptional

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

@1791_mike @HackingButLegal Because that is never going to happen, dipshit.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Retired Lt. General @MarkHertling: “I’m sorry for getting emotional, but that comment from @PeteHegseth that diversity is not our strength is bullshit.”

Hertling shows pictures of fallen soldiers to refute Hegseth’s nonsense. Powerful.

(From @BulwarkOnline)

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

Katherine Argent wrote a masterpiece of a tweet. We turned it into a dramatic one-take short film.

This is “Everything is Fine.”