David M Strickhouser

Life on autopilot until the fuel runs out. Rainbows Always 🏳️‍🌈 🌈 Keeping the bluebird...sorry not sorry Elon!

[David M Strickhouser @pluggerdavems]

@AshChapelsGhost RIP "Ogre"... 😢

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump promised not to “touch” Medicaid.

Now he is cutting it by $1 trillion and taking health care away from patients with cancer, AIDS and other life-threatening diseases to pay for tax breaks to the top 1% and his wealthy campaign contributors.

Unimaginable cruelty.

[David M Strickhouser @pluggerdavems]

@RpsAgainstTrump If true... 🙄

[David M Strickhouser @pluggerdavems]

@Kal92858Kalti "Talent" is becoming a very loose and abused word. Qualified investigative journalists won't apply for any new positions unless they WANT to "sell" their integrity...

[David M Strickhouser @pluggerdavems]

@Variety “He (Pelley) was fired for asking questions, which is the job. If you need one sentence that tells you exactly what CBS News has become under Bari Weiss, that’s it."
It's going to be the Ellison/Weiss way or the highway apparently at CBS News and "60 Minutes". 😢

[David M Strickhouser @pluggerdavems]

@Variety Don Hewitt and Mike Wallace would be furious!!!

[David M Strickhouser @pluggerdavems]

@HQNewsNow 😳😣🥴🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Scott Pelley said "the new owner of our network" is casting the legacy of "60 Minutes" aside, "apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration."

[David M Strickhouser @pluggerdavems]

@brianstelter The new opening...
Photo Credit: AI generated by ChatGPT.

[David M Strickhouser @pluggerdavems]

@USATODAY That f***ing eyesore?!!? Hell no!!! 😡

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Scott Pelley tells the NYT: "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." https://t.co/GOB29Bv0Qb

[David M Strickhouser @pluggerdavems]

@neeratanden I'm disgusted with the treatment of Mssrs. Pelley and Colbert by the new Paramount regime lording over CBS to be sure; however I am not going to end watching the prime time CBS shows that I like, dramas and comedies coming out of the entertainment division of CBS.

[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

[Variety @Variety]

Scott Pelley fired back with a statement of his own after Nick Bilton announced that CBS News had fired the “60 Minutes” veteran:

"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."

"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.”
https://t.co/9KhIR5zmiR

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

“What qualifies you to be in this position?” veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley demanded from his new boss, Nick Bilton.

Read more, including accounts from staffers who attended the fiery CBS News meeting: https://t.co/UgxBYQKw9J

[David M Strickhouser @pluggerdavems]

@brianstelter Certainly the end of what Murrow forged, Cronkite honed, Hewitt and Wallace shaped...very sad day for CBS News, once the jewel of investigative journalism.
Bill Paley would be turning in his grave!

[David M Strickhouser @pluggerdavems]

@SubcommanderT @TrekMovie Like Leonard from the second pilot?🤔
Personally, though I don't think much of the Kelvinverse, Quinton comported himself admirably for the most part as Mr. Spock.

[David M Strickhouser @pluggerdavems]

@FoxNews Ol' Oz can throw a line of 💩 can't he?? He's the Oz behind the curtain all right...🙄

[David M Strickhouser @pluggerdavems]

@Suzierizzo1 Destabilizing our democracy to nearly the breaking point...hopefully not TO the breaking point.
It's not over yet...🙄