John Stempin

Multiplatform spoken word journalist. Senior Producer of @NPR #Newscasts and @NPRNewsNow. Views my own. #billsmafia 716/14120 🇺🇸 Shadow Canadian

[John Stempin @johnstempinnpr]

You’ll see all sorts of things — maybe unexpected — in my tweet stream. Here’s why. https://t.co/T3KJFpxGR6

[Scott Simon @nprscottsimon]

I despair when people say, "I don't listen to @NPR to hear..." (fill in with repellent opinion, music, sport, or literature you're sure offends you). NPR exists to bring you the world, challenge, surprise, inform, even outrage, not cosset the audience.

[SabresClassics @SabresClassics]

Lindy Ruff took a 79-point team and turned it into a 102+ point contender in a single season. The #Sabres finished near the top of the NHL in wins, points percentage, 5-on-5 scoring, and penalty killing while posting one of the biggest year-over-year improvements in franchise history. Yet somehow he wasn't named Coach of the Year. The voters should be ashamed of themselves. If this isn't a Jack Adams-winning season, what exactly is? Not Jon Cooper's team just because he never won one before! #LetsGoBuffalo

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

Our coach of the year.

[mastaprincess @mastaprincess]

does anyone have a GEOLOC on Britney Spears?

[Haz @Michael_Haz]

Joking aside, I had no idea 60 Minutes was still on the air. It was something my grandparents and parents watched. They liked Charles Kuralt’s travel stories.

60 Minutes was like the Lawrence Welk show - something my generation never paid attention to.

And I’m a boomer and old. LOL.

[Fitz🍀 @CheapSeats411]

The Bears were hoping this property where Our Lady of the Blessed Shroud stands would be demolished so they could build their new stadium. However, at the last minute, someone came up with the $5,000 over due tax payment.

[Brinda Adhikari @brindaadhikari]

I worked at CBS News for almost 6 years. It was a place that frequently drove me crazy bc of how resistant it was to change. How difficult it was to get things done bc you had to fight so many people and their “Cronkite and Murrow would roll over in their graves if they saw” mentality.

For those who think Scott Pelley was part of the problem, you are wrong. Yes he could be rigid and a stickler for certain traditions. But I will tell you now the Gen Z people I worked w all loved him. Like me, they forgave a lot of his boomer ways bc we were in awe of investigations he did using hidden cameras exposing snake oil salesmen hurting Americans; showing us how Assad was using chemical weapons on his own people; the pain of rural Americans waiting for half a day to get affordable healthcare in a parking lot of a mobile clinic; his searing interviews w survivors of mass shootings.

Yeah he was old fashioned in some ways. I used to tease him bc he always had trouble pronouncing Beyoncé’s name.

But he was willing to be pushed. He was open to new ideas. The fact that someone like me and someone like him got along so well is proof of that. The guy made me a better thinker and a better journalist.

[Patrick Hammer @Pat_HammerWGRZ]

Distance to nearest cloud.

[John Stempin @johnstempinnpr]

@mastaprincess Having grown up on the border I agree, I hope they stay weird.

[Kimberly Ross @SouthernKeeks]

We were 26 and 27 when we got married almost 18 years ago. Our entire wedding, *including* the engagement ring/wedding bands (!), cost under $5,000. No way were we going to spend a lot. These numbers are insane.

[John Stempin @johnstempinnpr]

I suspect the cost of the wedding leads ultimately to divorce in a fair number of marriages through prolonged financial stress. I’ve seen it happen to friends who never financially recovered. Wanna expensive wedding? Do small and modest and take the tens of thousands you were going to spend and salt it away for your house. It might disappoint the have it all crowd but we’re no longer in have it all times.

[Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss]

The fact that the first paragraph is one paragraph and not two, despite the obvious break point where he starts whining about the meeting, proves Nick Bilton should go home and play with his kids

[mastaprincess @mastaprincess]

why is this map trying to start a race war

[Jonathan Maze @jonathanmaze]

But when technology fails as it often does the result is super frustrating and ultimately requires a person anyway.

[Dave Kerner @DaveKerner]

They do say baseball is a Young man’s game..

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

This is a lot of “breaking news” for a show no one watches willingly. It’s just…on after the football game ends and you forgot to turn the TV off.

[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

[David Harsanyi @davidharsanyi]

Innocently befriended and defended the Blind Sheikh and then accidentally volunteered for an Al-Qaida front. Could happen to anyone!

[The Christian Post @ChristianPost]

The All-In Podcast warned AI leaders envision "a deity," calling it "delusion of grandeur to think you can create God."
#AI #Anthropic #Technology #Theology #ChristianPost
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[FBI @FBI]

NEWS ALERT from @FBIDetroit: Two researchers with the National Institutes of Health were charged with conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox into the United States and giving false statements to federal law enforcement.

A federal complaint alleges that the researchers told Customs and Border Protection (CBP) their case contained diagnostic and testing equipment. However, a investigation by CBP and #FBI agents uncovered 113 vials, 18 of which have been verified to contain monkeypox as of today’s date.

This investigation was conducted by the FBI Detroit Joint Terrorism Task Force, along with assistance from the @FBIBillings' Missoula Resident Agency, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection team at Detroit Metro Airport, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – OIG.

Read more: https://t.co/FIiQCp4vm0