Liliane Landor

..from head of foreign news on @Channel4News to head of the @BBC s international services inc.the World Service. Catching my breath. Forever Arsenal...

[Liliane Landor @lilo11]

Nigel Farage is a dangerous demagogue—here’s how to stop him @alanrusbridger https://t.co/2xUbh44Tsk

[steph @spagettihetti]

@alzheimerssoc @cathynewman Such a beautiful photo. It’s not surprising Jon Snow is giving back to humanity. That’s who he is. He was amazing on Ch 4 News, he chewed up and spat out self serving greedy heartless polititions. Tore down the liars and fraudsters. And did so much for others ie homelessness.

[Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 @AlonLeeGreen]

התמונה הזו היא של תינוק בן 7 חודשים שנורה בחברון על ידי חייל צה"ל. הוא לא שרד. תינוק בן 7 חודשים נהרג מאש צה"ל. ההורים שלו נפצעו קשה. זו המציאות שאנחנו אחראים לה. זה מה שאנחנו עושים. חייבים להביט למציאות הזו בעיניים. חייבים לסיים את הכיבוש.

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

NIgel, Elon, JD Vance - where’s your pure cold rage ?

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

This is the Israeli military justification for attacking a Lebanese army patrol inside Leb territory - ‘the area is an active combat zone, and movement in the area requires coordination with the IDF’ The Israeli military is demanding Leb troops asks its permission to move around its own country 🧵

[Dawn.com @dawn_com]

"Since we insist on keeping you alive and locked, we must give you some hope, however flimsy," writes Mohammed Hanif.

https://t.co/7jvTwwu9Bh

[Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي @NTarnopolsky]

💥Zvi Succot, a racist thug Netanyahu made Chair of the Knesset Education Cmte, used a circular saw to break into a school in the Arab town of Tuba-Zangariyye– while kids were inside. Same Succot who took part in invasion of IDF Sde Teiman base. No arrests

[Declan Walsh @declanwalsh]

Great and tragic news at once.
Emmanuel, the 5-year old featured in this report, has since recovered and left the Ebola ward, his father told me.
But the lab technician I met in the next ward deteriorated and died last night. His name was Bienfaits.
https://t.co/ggpolsFgAY

[Amara Nwankpa @Nwankpa_A]

The idea that Arsenal became a cultural phenomenon because it signed Black players is too simplistic.

Like much of London, Arsenal positioned itself as a club that extended belonging towards the margins. Not racial margins alone, but the margins of football's imagination.

Kanu arrived after heart surgery that could have ended his career. Bergkamp arrived carrying the weight of a disappointing spell at Inter. Henry arrived as a talented but unsettled player still searching for his place. Kolo Touré was potential before proof. Arteta arrived as a midfielder many thought was entering decline, only to be entrusted with the captaincy. Wenger himself was a foreign manager challenging the assumptions of English football.

The pattern was not diversity for its own sake. It was recognition before validation.

Arsenal repeatedly seemed willing to see people not simply as they were, but as they could become. It trusted before consensus arrived. It built a reputation for offering a second chance, a fresh start, or a path to fulfilment where others saw limitation, uncertainty, or decline.

That is why former players, injured players, and out-of-contract players so often found their way back to Arsenal. The club developed a reputation for treating people as more than their immediate utility.

Representation matters. But recognition creates loyalty.

People did not just see players who looked like them. They saw an institution that appeared willing to enlarge its definition of who belonged.

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

“Jesus told us to forgive our killers, but this is too much”

Heartbreaking moments from the funeral of Theodosia Karam, her brother Tony and their father James in Qlayaa, southern Lebanon. James was driving his children home from their exams when an Israeli drone killed them

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed six of one family including a two-year-old boy. Dr Mina is in our report focussing on the targeting of health workers and first responders in Lebanon. There are a high number of civilian casualties. Caution: shocking video - watch it here https://t.co/TUJvpjNhwz

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

After an Israeli airstrike hit the town of Nabatiyeh, #Lebanon, a family of 12 arrived at Najdeh Al-Shaabiyeh hospital. Six were killed, including a two-year-old boy.

Dr. Mina Naguib reports:

[Variety @Variety]

Fired "60 Minutes" journalist Scott Pelley says CBS News boss Bari Weiss is lying when she says there was an effort to "find a way back" for him.

"At no point did anyone in the meeting suggest there could be steps taken by either side that would lead to a resolution. Weiss and Tom Cibrowski were openly hostile from the start. 'Firing' was raised by Cibrowski in the first 15 seconds. No CBS executive, at any time, suggested 'a way back.' To say so now is disingenuous. And they know it. In fact, Weiss, Cibrowski and Nick Bilton refused to answer my questions. I asked Weiss a number of questions about why she fired the entire senior staff of '60 Minutes' a few days before and without cause. 'I'm not answering that question,' she said... These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists do."

https://t.co/UNDmIyCPBt

[Liliane Landor @lilo11]

“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. ….. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast”.

[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

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

BRUTAL indictment of @bariweiss by Scott Pelley:
"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." Then it gets worse...

[Liliane Landor @lilo11]

With free speech under siege around the world, it is shameful that Britain, once a bastion of tolerance for vigorous debate, should be turning censorious. @economist https://t.co/ePIfSTBaDU

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Former '60 Minutes' Executive Producer Bill Owens just derided Bari Weiss as "an opinion writer best known for being an ideologue" and ripped her over the recent firings.

"They were fired by people who don't even know what we do and don't actually care."

"Scott [Pelley] can smell a fraud from a mile away. He stood up the way I did a year ago and I couldn't be prouder of him," Owens continued. "And I know all of the people at '60 Minutes' couldn't be more proud of him."
https://t.co/GvYqn6C2Mq

[Liliane Landor @lilo11]

CBS News fired Scott Pelley, one of the network’s best-known journalists in a clash over the future of “60 Minutes,” the country’s top-rated news program.
Scott Pelley had accused the network’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss, of “murdering ‘60 Minutes,’” https://t.co/2fg9u0B0Uk

[Arsenal Gist @GistArsena99455]

Wayne Rooney on other teams congratulating Arsenal on their title:

“Arsenal were crowned Premier League champions and deserved credit for what they achieved this season. But I cannot help feeling that some clubs in England could not find it in themselves to offer a simple word of congratulations.

In football, respect costs nothing. When a team ends a 22-year wait and wins the title with quality and character, the least their rivals can do is acknowledge it. The silence from certain clubs speaks louder than any post ever could.

I am proud of what Mikel Arteta has built. The players showed resilience, belief and the kind of determination that wins leagues. That deserves recognition, not ignorance.

Congratulations to Arsenal on winning the Premier League. But I believe English football loses something when basic respect between clubs disappears.

To the Arsenal supporters: you waited 22 years. Nobody can take that from you. Enjoy every moment of it.”

#PremierLeague #Arsenal #Champions

[Kafaji Comps @KafajiComps]

Myles Lewis-Skelly fulfilling a prophecy ❤️