Steve Goodspeed

Former News Director: KQDS-TV and WDIO-TV, Duluth; Reporter: KMSP-TV, Minneapolis; WFRV-TV, Green Bay; WDIO-TV.

[Steve Goodspeed @nuuzz]

I believe Mr. @DanRather has set the journalism tweet Gold Bar Standard. Enjoy. Savor. Smile. Repeat.

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

The audio of Trump with the Georgia secretary of state. Wow. It’s like telling the Nixon tapes to “hold my beer.”

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed

[Steve Capus @SteveCapus]

Forever proud to have been Executive Producer of “CBS Evening News with @ScottPelley.” I learned something new every day - from this respected, principled journalist & writer who simultaneously earned all of J’s top honors for his exemplary @60Minutes work
Photo: @clarkeLsmith

[Shashank Joshi @shashj]

“Nearly 60 percent of the senior officers Mr. Hegseth has fired are female or Black, Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said in recent Senate testimony. Women and minorities currently account for fewer than 20 percent of all generals and admirals.” https://t.co/V0r60s4CM1

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Some guy named Nick Bilton serving an audience of 1 (Bari) service an audience of 1 (Ellison) serving an audience of 1 (Trump). This is how oligarch-authoritarian takeover of media happens

[The Associated Press @AP]

CBS News fires longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley a day after he allegedly said Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was “murdering the show.” https://t.co/lmL0oeDi5j

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

Okay who was this hero? How come I missed this one?
The thundercunt almost strokes out!

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

During Russian attack against Ukrainian civilians, a mother was killed in Kyiv while trying to get her two children to safety. The children are now in hospital.

Russia is a terrorist state, and @RealCandaceO is a supporter of state terrorism.

[ABC News @ABC]

Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine overnight, firing 73 missiles and 656 drones at cities across the country.

The attacks killed at least 13 people — including a child — and injured more than 100.

Read more: https://t.co/irhx6ANL2A

[Erik Osberg for Congress @ErikOsbergMN]

Wow. Just wow. Thank you Congressional District 7 for showing up and showing out. It's been an amazing Day 2 at the State #DFLConvention in Rochester. Grateful for the opportunity to share the vision for our campaign. #Minnesota #MN07 #WeCanDoBetter

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Here’s the deal for those confused: “America 250” is the bipartisan celebration committee. “Freedom 250” is a Trump organization celebrating him masquerading as a celebration of America. The concert was Freedom 250. Hence the cancellations

[Dr. Vin Gupta @VinGuptaMD]

When a President’s physicians start citing “AI cardiac age” metrics and explaining bilateral bruising from “frequent handshaking,” the line between medical documentation and political messaging disappears.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

If you haven't read @NickBilton's memo from yesterday yet, here it is >>>

Hi everyone, I'm Nick. Some of you I've met. Most of you I haven't.

Walking into this building and putting my name on this job is the honor of my career. Though I don’t need to tell you, “60 Minutes” is, without exaggeration, the most important television journalism brand this country has ever produced. The fact that it has held that position for almost six decades is not an accident. It’s the result of generations of producers, correspondents, editors, researchers, and crews who decided that the work mattered more than the noise.

You are those people. I’m grateful to be working alongside you. I am here because the world outside this building has changed a lot since this show was conceived—and we have to talk honestly about what that means.

Think back to September 1968, when the first episode of ’60’ aired. A gallon of gas was thirty two cents. The first pocket calculator wouldn’t go on sale for another two-and-a-half years. If you needed money, you went to the bank, stood in line, and asked a human being for it. Long distance calls were billed by the minute and you thought twice before making one. There were three networks. Most people watched the first episode of “60 Minutes” in black and white. If you missed it, you missed it. Every part of how we lived back then has been transformed since then.

The cars, the phones, the music, the movies, the medicine, the money, the way news gets made and the way news gets consumed. The phone you are reading this on is more powerful than every computer that existed on the planet in 1968 combined. The audience that watched that first episode is not the same audience watching us now. They have unlimited channels to choose from, not three. They are stalked by algorithms that they wake up to and go to sleep to. Algorithms that have figured out that anger is the only way to make sure they come back day after day after day.

They have lost faith in almost every institution that used to hold the country together. And yet here we still are. Same stopwatch. Same tick. Same Sunday night. Same form. The trusted correspondents are our guides through all of it. There is something genuinely incredible about that. The fact that this show has remained a fixed point in a culture is part of why this show still matters as much as it does. I don’t want to lose that.

But the world we are reporting on, and the world we are reporting to, where people consume their news, has moved. And if we don’t move with it, in the ways that matter, we won’t be here for the next sixty years. I want to do everything humanly possible to ensure that we are. How? I’ve spent most of my career writing about exactly this kind of moment.

I started as a technology reporter at The New York Times, then an investigative journalist at Vanity Fair, covering industry after industry that got obliterated by these technological changes. I was a regular voice on CNBC, ABC, and CNN trying to make sense of it as it happened. I wrote books about it. I made documentaries about it for Netflix and HBO. And I watched (as we all did) newspapers and magazines and taxi companies and travel agencies and video stores and entire industries go under. Only a few survived. The ones that did all had one thing in common: They saw it coming, and they adapted before it was too late.

Over my time covering these disruptions, nothing compares to this one. Between AI rewriting how information is made and everyone with a phone calling themselves a media company, this is the most precarious moment for journalism (and society) I have ever seen. There was a time I would have written the story about what happens to television news next. Instead, I am here to make sure that story doesn’t get written about us. That is why Bari hired me. Evolving or dying isn’t a threat. It’s simple math.

My responsibility is not just technological transformation. It is also our trust with the public. On the very first episode of “60 Minutes” Mike Wallace said: “If this broadcast does what we hope it will do it will report reality.” I can’t think of a better north star for “60 Minutes” than that. Above all, that means a commitment to fairness—in story selection, in the edit room, and in the broadcast.

Now, what happens next? I’m here to lead this show, not preserve it under glass. That means honoring what works and being honest about what doesn’t. I have a notebook full of ideas. Some are about the show itself. Some are about the next generation of correspondents. Some are about the strange fact that we produce one extraordinary hour for one night a week in a world that consumes content around the clock. I’m excited to share them, and I’m confident you’ll be excited by them, too. But not yet. The first thing I want to do is meet you. Hear what you’re working on. Hear what isn’t working. Hear what you’ve been waiting to do and haven’t been able to. In about thirty days I’ll come back to all of you with where we go from here. It will be a conversation that we have together.

This is the best job in journalism. I can’t wait to introduce myself and meet each of you.

See you tomorrow,

Nick.

[Alex Thompson @AlexThomp]

Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait
The printing director who resisted the effort said she was reassigned last month. https://t.co/ySxWxDwT5j

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: Trump administration officials have pressed the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design a $250 bill featuring the president’s portrait, in what would be the first appearance of a living person on U.S. currency in more than 150 years. https://t.co/S8sqdKSB7i

[Emily Ness @emilynesstv]

BREAKING: Brian O’Hara is out as the Minneapolis Police Chief.
https://t.co/yAFML9o2bW

[Steve Goodspeed @nuuzz]

Suburbs pushing back as investors snap up single-family homes to convert into rentals https://t.co/UeXSE46xHh

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

The president posted this at 6:18 am on Memorial Day then thought it was so good he re-posted it later in the day.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

The Divider in Chief

[cllct @cllctMedia]

Never forget when Kyle Busch spotted this fan wearing his hat while driving next to her in traffic 🥹

This is one of the most wholesome interactions you'll ever see.

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

I almost hesitate to promote this, because it wasn't really intended to be a piece. I just sort of sat down and it came out. Maybe someone else out there has the same type of day today, and it'll speak to them.
https://t.co/xSMUDOrHcC