Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon returned with new episodes since Colbert signed off..
ABC's Kimmel was watched by 2.185 million total viewers.
NBC's Fallon came in second with 1.301 million total viewers.
CBS’s Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen received only 628,000 viewers.
First on LateNighter: Jimmy Kimmel didn't just win the first head-to-head night of late night's post-Colbert 11:35 p.m. era, he consolidated a sizable share of the audience CBS left behind. https://t.co/ZPFGxoJGtK
CBS SHAREHOLDERS:
FIRE BARI WEISS!
SHE IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF JOURNALISM AT ITS BEST
SHAME ON CBS FOR FIRING SCOTT PELLEY
WHO KNOWS FAR MORE ABOUT WHAT GOOD JOURNALISM IS ALL ABOUT THAN BARI WEISS EVER WILL
CBS SHAREHOLDERS WILL CONTINUE TO LOSE MONEY WITH BARI WEISS
It is striking that it doesn't occur to this person that a 68-year-old man who has made a lot of money might care about his integrity far more than about his next paycheck. Maybe at that age you decide working for Temu Fox News just isn't worth it and hang it up!
When @ScottPelley signed off from @CBSEveningNews, he spoke about Freedom of the Press. My first years in broadcast journalism were at a CBS affiliate while he anchored the Evening News. He was excellent then as he is now, fighting for @60Minutes.
Dear @ScottPelley
Thank you.
Thank you for standing up when it was inconvenient.
Thank you for standing up when it cost you a job you loved.
Thank you for standing up to power and for trying to save a landmark news program.
Thank you for your INTEGRITY.
It is now official. CBS died tonight. I will never watch any CBS content again. No sports, no news, no reality TV, no weather, no nothing. To me, Bari Weiss and Ellison are traitors to our nation. Fuck CBS.
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
If a couple is not ready to have :
- a gay kid 🏳️🌈
- a trans kid 🏳️⚧️
- a disabled kid 🌸
- a non-religious kid ✝️
- or a kid who’s different in general 🍀
Then they should NEVER have kids ✌🏻
Homophobes will literally tell a gay person to go kill themselves under a “happy pride” post on social media…. And in the same breath say “I don’t understand why they need a whole month?”
Because of YOU , bitch.