One thing about US, we love GOOD shenaniganning from singers. Runs, key changes, emotions you can feel through the music…we want all of that - if it's good.
For Day 9 of the #BlackMusicMonthChallenge, share your favorite song with hooting’, hollering’, and/or carrying on.
This doesn’t come as a shock to anyone that has read “These Guys….”. It was a competitive place like any other news room.
Amicable (for the most part), but competitive.
Part of why I wanted to create This Was SportsCenter: take you behind the scenes of some of the competition BETWEEN the anchors going on at the time. When Keith Olbermann left, it sparked an unofficial audition amongst the anchors to get the seat next to Dan Patrick. I talk about it with DP in this clip, with Stuart Scott and his legendary competitive nature taking center stage for both us…but in completely different ways.
When I first saw this on YT I said to myself, “Scott Pelley been in the news game longer than I’ve been alive (& I’m old). For him to be emptying clips at CBS like this - it’s gotta be bad over there.
Like, really bad.
This is a devastating interview.
Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.
Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.