Chris Wallenberg

Arts & culture correspondent for @BostonGlobe. Additional bylines: @TVInsider @HollywoodReporter, @AmericanTheatre magazine, @NYTimes 🏳️‍🌈 #BlackLivesMatter

[Chris Wallenberg @chriswallenberg]

My @BostonGlobeArts profile on #EmmyAward nominee and @PoseOnFX superstar #BillyPorter who’s directing the world premiere of
#PuristsBOS @huntington . Thanks for the great interview @theebillyporter and best of luck with the official opening tonight!
https://t.co/GPZodAiJIu

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Marie Glusenkamp Perez has the guts to stand up to her party and adopt important heterodox positions, like helping Republicans cut fruit and vegetable WIC benefits to children and nursing mothers. Such a profile in courage!

[Chris O'Brien @obrien]

@mattyglesias "The Pratt Fall: How Dipshit Rightwing Commentariat Fell Victim To Their Own Delusional Pornographic Circle-Jerk Political Fanfiction And Convinced Themselves A Human Turd Might Be Elected Mayor Of LA."

[Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jamesetta_w]

I think what’s happening here is part of a broader media issue: Republicans are just not being covered like an unpopular party with a president polling in the 30s.

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

holy crap this is easily the best Tony Award speech of the entire night. hell yes to all of this

"This is dedicated to the beautiful tapestry of immigrant families who make this country really special. May you one day not have to audition for the empathy that should be freely given by this country that benefits from your beauty. To the queer and trans communities that always will exist, no matter what people in power try to take away from them. To the people of Palestine who deserve to live a free life – a full life – without occupation. ... If there's one thing we can learn from vampires, it's that life is short, but that's its gift. Find beauty in the ephemeral and gratitude in what is not promised."

—Ali Louis Bourzgui, winning Featured Actor in a Musical for The Lost Boys

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WOW -- Trump crashes out and cuts his interview with Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged

"You're either crooked or you're stupid. Let's call it quits. Because I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her."

"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

Always weird to me that conservatives act like he’s the toughest man in America when literally a follow up question is enough to make him turn completely beet red and crash out

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

Lift the cap on Social Security payroll tax. This will take care of the problem. Next Dem trifecta has to do this immediately.

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

The full interview with @ScottPelley . https://t.co/69OMAPlcrn

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

.@Timodc on Trump storming out of his interview with Kristen Welker:

"It's unbelievable, honestly, that the American people could put this fucking ass clown in the White House."

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Brendan Carr is the future CEO of OANN, and that's about it. What a toadying little shrub.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The biggest story in America is a president who has completely lost touch with reality. Who thinks the FBI let all the January 6 rioters into the Capitol, that he really won the 2020 election, that the Iran War is going well. Who, when occasionally confronted w reality, panics.

[Amar Singh Chouhan @amar_4inc]

@MarcoFoster_ Scott Pelley is saying what many journalists are afraid to say out loud: when experience, integrity, and courage are replaced by political pressure and incompetence, journalism suffers. A free press needs independence ,not obedience.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

“Right now, CBS News is on fire”

Scott Pelley: “We need adult supervision and at the moment we don’t have it. We have people who’ve been installed in these jobs who through no fault of their own have no experience in television. It’s not their fault, but they don’t know what they’re doing. There’s a subtle political bias that I’ve never seen at 60 Minutes or CBS News before. That is my hope, a return to sanity. A return to honor, a return to courage. We used to have all of those things in abundance and now we don’t. We can save this. It’s possible to land this plane. But right now, CBS News, in my view, is on fire”

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Scott Pelley issued a public statement after Bari Weiss told staff the firing happened because they couldn't find a way back together.

Pelley's rebuttal is precise and on the record. Firing was raised by CBS News president Tom Cibrowski in the first 15 seconds of Tuesday's meeting. No executive at any point suggested steps either side could take toward resolution. Weiss and Cibrowski were openly hostile from the start. "To say so now is disingenuous."

Then came the part that changes the 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."

That sentence is not about editorial philosophy. It is not about newsroom culture or management style. It is a specific, documented claim that the most decorated correspondent in 60 Minutes history was given instructions to put false or unverified information into broadcast stories - and refused. Repeatedly. Until he was fired.

Trump called Pelley "a stiff" and "part of a gang of stupid, crooked people" the same day he was terminated. Weiss said it was unfortunate but that's the path Pelley chose. Bilton's termination letter called it a performative display of hostility.

What Pelley is describing is not a personality conflict. It is a journalist refusing to broadcast what he was told to broadcast because it wasn't true. That is the job. That is exactly the job. And it is the reason he no longer has it.

[Chris Wallenberg @chriswallenberg]

@mtasju @CBKReport St John’s is a good and historic program. But they have no titles, few final fours, and were an afterthought in the Big East conference for a long time.

[College Basketball Report @CBKReport]

The 30 Greatest College Basketball Programs of All-Time 🏆

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm

[Stacey J. Spiehler @StaceyJSpiehler]

He’s not a teenager sassing the goddamn McDonald’s manager.

He’s an experienced broadcast journalist who sees what we all see happening at CBS.

Journalism exists to speak truth to power. Are you dumb?

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Bilton's termination letter says Pelley chose "ambush" over "civil, private conversation" and showed "remarkable incivility."

Pelley said true things in a staff meeting. The staff applauded. Bilton left the room. Then fired him for cause.

The most decorated correspondent in 60 Minutes history, 37 years at CBS, terminated because he wouldn't take his objections to dinner privately and pretend in public that everything was fine.

That's the letter. That's what it says. Read it again.