Catherine Alexander

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@AppoloQuarter @JoeConchaTV I can’t speak to Don’s or Jim’s, but Nicolle’s is popular.

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@NorthATLWife @JoeConchaTV Apparently you missed his statement that he was told repeatedly to make false or unconfirmed assertions in his reporting. And that politicians were being invited to choose their interviewers. Objecting to that is hardly being a “self-important ass.”

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@JoeConchaTV @EWErickson This was a great segment. Too bad so many of y’all have your heads so far up Donald Trump’s ass you can’t see it.

[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

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

My home country Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

NO cervical cancer cases detected in vaccinated women following HPV immunisation!

None! Zero!

What a stunning achievement !

The HPV vaccine ie a modern medical miracle!

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@SenKatieBritt @CoachForGov What are you doing to protect us from this lunatic?

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@SenKatieBritt @CoachForGov Your president has serious delusions of grandeur, comparing himself to Napoleon, Alexander the Great, and Caesar. WHEN. ARE. YOU. GOING. TO. INTERVENE.

https://t.co/HbszycoL7q

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@SenKatieBritt @CoachForGov Our President is clearly mentally ill. But WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

https://t.co/aonQ1H9foh

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@SenKatieBritt @CoachForGov
This will disenfranchise elderly and disabled voters, and it’s BASED ON A LIE. What are you going to do to stop it?

https://t.co/760xazqnWy

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@peter_adderton @lauderdale This was always going to be a Trump rally. Anything he has any connection to is going to be about him, with his name and picture everywhere and him droning and bloviating about how great he is. He’s an evil, wicked, dangerous man who has given us absolutely nothing to celebrate.

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@sarahadams You really don’t have a clue, do you?

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@SenKatieBritt @CoachForGov WHY ARE YOU NOT STOPPING THIS??

https://t.co/TJjtRhGflT

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@SenKatieBritt @CoachForGov So are we just North Korea now? WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THIS?

https://t.co/J6Pq2XuwDQ

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@SenKatieBritt @CoachForGov Here we go again. WHEN. ARE. YOU. GOING. TO. DO. YOUR. JOB.

https://t.co/JAg29I7oZY

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@SenKatieBritt @CoachForGov For the love of God, when are you guys going to save us from Trump the madman? EVERY DAY it’s a fresh outrage.

https://t.co/9aQJ82Sjyz

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@bariweiss Between @colbertlateshow and @60Minutes not to mention the disastrous @CBSNews I’m taking a long break from @CBS

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@jimprosser @nickbilton The franchise is in the hands of a man who has started off by insulting his team, so we’ll see.

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@BarristerATL @nickbilton You don’t know what you’re talking about. Seriously.

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@captdiso @nickbilton “Return to journalism”? You obviously don’t watch 60 Minutes. It’s the best journalism on TV. You sound like a Trumper, most of who wouldn’t recognize good journalism in any case.

[Catherine Alexander @calexander007]

@nickbilton What’s happening at 60 Minutes is not “just noise.” How dismissive and arrogant. As much as I will miss 60M, I think you and @bariweiss need to be sent a message. Many of us don’t like what’s going on at CBS, and we especially don’t like the way it’s being handled.