Mark Wert

former investigations and enterprise editor at The Enquirer/Cincinnati.com; also a gardener, a singer and a husband

[Joel Beall @JoelMBeall]

Exclusive: Phil Mickelson accused of nonconsensual, inappropriate contact with a female employee at his home course. Following the allegation, he is no longer a member of the club. Our Golf Digest investigation: https://t.co/9oUaElyErq

[Randy Ludlow @RandyLudlow]

@DaveYostOH https://t.co/o9tT8hFSCO

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

NEWS: In joint memo, Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim say they will stay on at 60 Minutes.

While they say they are heartbroken over fired colleagues, they cite one reason for staying:

"We don't want to see 60 Minutes die"

Full memo in next tweet:

[Mark Wert @mwert]

Read the whole string.

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

I spent 24 years wearing this nations uniform.

Do you know what nobody ever told me?

That if I worked hard enough and sacrificed enough, someday my military career could be decided by the political opinion of a Fox News pundit playing Defense Secretary.

[Frank Conniff @FrankConniff]

Soon:

“I’m Scott Baio.”
“I’m Patricia Heaton.”
“I’m Kevin Sorbo.”
“I’m Roseanne Barr.”
“I’m Andrew Tate. Those stories, plus Tony Hinchcliffe, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

[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

[BMcArthur @bmcarthur20]

Mark Bingham (pictured with his mom) was a gay man who tried to wrestle a hijacked plane (United Airlines Flight 93) from terrorists on 9/11.

He will always be remembered as a hero.

#PrideMonth #DemsUnited

[Mia @MiaForTrump]

This is retired Army Staff Sergeant Sean Ortega, the first openly trans service member. He served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and was involved in 400 combat missions.

RETWEET to wish Staff Sergeant Ortega a Happy Pride Month and Happy Veterans Month!

[Jake Zuckerman @jake_zuckerman]

More than 120 Ohio public school districts are projecting negative cash balances by 2029 – the worst rate since the Great Recession. https://t.co/uysQfxrYow

[Jake Zuckerman @jake_zuckerman]

Ohio's sales tax exemption for builders of new data centers was expected to cost ~$136 million in 2025.

The Department of Taxation now says the tax break cost Ohio **$1.57** billion in lost revenue, with most the savings flowing to Big Tech. https://t.co/3vjZxlg0iZ

[Mark Wert @mwert]

@RandyLudlow Why? Campaign contributions from nursing homes might be an answer.

[Randy Ludlow @RandyLudlow]

.@JDVance is effectively giving hell to all of the American jurors who sat in judgment of the Jan. 6 rioters. He calls it a protest in which Trump supporters were unjustly convicted. They deserve your tax dollars as compensation, he says.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

The Pentagon has quietly dismantled a program it is legally required to operate to prevent and respond to civilian deaths in US military operations, according to its internal watchdog. https://t.co/W3AcKVGtu6

[Randy Ludlow @RandyLudlow]

@VivekGRamaswamy Uh, Ohio requires photo ID, Vivek. Did you really not know?

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

After years of debate about higher education's value, a study of nearly 1 million undergraduates shows that college pays off financially for most students.

But the report found that the benefits depend on varying factors, including the degree and major: https://t.co/UDLfOEk1lK

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

Eight of the top ten officials at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office. https://t.co/U3OwhqYivG @maxdkozlov

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Americans have hit decade-high delinquency rates on credit card, student loan, and car loan debt. 💸

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

This is a really scary attack on the press.

[ProPublica @propublica]

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.”

From our “The End of Aid” series, a Pulitzer finalist:
https://t.co/HBzL4yi488

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more. https://t.co/sEVd15jKZY