Matt Bartholomew

[Matt Bartholomew @mattbart7]

@LeBatardShow @jessica_smetana It’s amazing how the elites have each others’ backs. Well done. One has to be invited to the right soirées…

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@JamieIrishRed @jonnyrmitch I never hear their music at restaurants, sport events, radio….and I’m grateful. It does support the notion that they are overrated. Unlike the Beatles.

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This is what has happened the past 10 years. Anyone willing to listen, study, examine and not automatically ascribe to the intelligentsia is incrementalized and must be shutdown, according to them - the elites that have lost their grip on their hold over the media and airwaves. This is just petulant children acting out.

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@JTTheBrick That’s the issue - the elitism, the sanctimony, etc.; it’s leaked through their work and their professionalism- meaning legacy media members - and Pelley is just the latest whose hubris won’t let him accept anything outside of his worldview.

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Sure, there can be other factors. Just simply sharing what I did to a counter about the program being up 9% year over year…well, if someone has successs attributed to them for the same time they are there, then also the struggles and failures.

I’d attribute it to a loss in trust in media as much as anything. There’s a number of questionable reports that made headlines at the time that a reasonable person looks at and it looks distinctly partisan.

That was the relationship with 60 Minutes and its audience during the times of Simon, Stahl, Croft, Bradley, Wallace, etc. The partisanship leaked through during the Anderson/Pelley/Couric/etc. timeframe and lost a good portion of its audience accordingly.

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@agupta The heavy sanctimony is rather compelllng

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@MarcoFoster_ Cussing never made an argument more compelling; if anything, it turns otherwise reasonable people off to what you have to say from the outset.

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@FoxNews Aka “we enjoyed the power imbalance so much, we will continue to raise a stink about it until we get our way”

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@McCarthySeanP @TVietor08 @emilyjashinsky Mid-2010s

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@Geraldini93 Hedo was a very very good player.

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@Hoopss The East was historically bad. Look it up. It’s an interesting accomplishment but it isn’t some all-time feat.

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@adamcarolla These arbiters of truth now made low is just something they’ve never considered.

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@TVietor08 @emilyjashinsky I googled and learned that overall viewership is markedly down during Mr. Pelley’s tenure. Viewership used to be 12 to 13 million-plus.

I guess that’s a success?

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@TVietor08 @bariweiss Even if his assertions are correct, it’s proven that he’s done that before in his own reportage. Boo hoo.

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@JasonCole62 @ClayTravis To “what he built”? Pelley didn’t build 60 minutes. Bob Simon, Ed Bradley, Mike Wallace, Leslie Stahl, etc. built 60 Minutes. The news anchors that shifted gears (like Pelley) to ride the coattails of those long before them were the beneficiaries, not the builders, of the brand.

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@maddenifico It is not what it was. It’s not an institution above reproach and when Pelley acts as if he’s the gatekeeper of the legacy of what was built by Simon, Wallace, Bradley, Kroft, etc., he’s interested in saving face instead of some legit self-reflection.

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@wingoz Can you be specific about what you disagree with? I think it’d make your point be worthy of consideration.

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@MikeEmbrich This is very funny. I bought a 2021 used model Y and a lot of these statements aren’t true or truthful

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