Cahir O’Doherty

Arts & Travel Editor | Sé/é | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🏳️‍⚧️| 🇮🇪 | 🇺🇦 Seen/Heard: New York Times, RTE, BBC, PBS, Frommers, Mr. Porter |

[Cahir O’Doherty @randomirish]

I don’t know how this Pope happened. It feels slightly miraculous.

[Catholic News Service @CatholicNewsSvc]

8th station: Mothers weep for their children "imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, & wiped out in death camps."
Grant us, Lord, a maternal heart & tears of compassion.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

AOC on CBS: “Fascist regimes such as this try to intimidate the free press and they do this through governmental means but also through some of these hostile financial takeovers by completely unqualified people. What they’re doing to CBS is engaging in political intimidation and basically saying if you don’t become a propaganda outlet, we will shut you down”

[Brian Beutler @brianbeutler]

Everyone defending Weiss et al here on Pelley insubordination grounds is putting themselves on the hook for the inevitable moment when Trump says, yes, they dismantled 60 minutes because they needed my help for mergers.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Don Lemon: “Bari Weiss is murdering CBS News. She’s helping to murder and end journalism and the First Amendment and she should be very aware of that especially as someone who owned a news organization called The Free Press”

[Matt Carey @RealMattCarey]

it's a tough call who to believe between the guy who had every financial incentive to just shut up and keep cashing checks and the woman whose job it is to systematically destroy the CBS News apparatus without you noticing

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Reuters: U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BACKS RESOLUTION CURBING TRUMP'S IRAN WAR POWERS

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

I have watched 60 Minutes my whole life.
So have millions of Americans. For nearly 40 years, Scott Pelley was part of why. He is one of the truly great American journalists, and CBS just fired him, one day after he stood up in a staff meeting and told the truth about what is being done to the institution he gave his career to.

Pelley said new management told him to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story, and to report claims that had not been verified. A journalist of his caliber refused.

For that, he was shown the door.

He is praying for a day when sanity, competence, and courage return to that newsroom. So am I.

This is bigger than one man losing one job. 60 Minutes has held the powerful to account since 1968. When the people willing to ask hard questions are pushed out and replaced by people willing to soften the story, every American loses a watchdog we did not know how much we needed until it was gone.

Scott Pelley deserved better.

The country deserves better. A free press does not survive on its reputation. It survives on people with the spine to defend it, and we should all be paying attention to what is happening.

https://t.co/thowsAqEqh

[Variety @Variety]

"60 Minutes" legend Steve Kroft says the news program has become "disastrous" under CBS News boss Bari Weiss.

“It’s the highest rated news program on television, and it has been that way for more than 50 years. The audience was up about 9% last year. Why would you mess with that?" he asks in an interview that's airing after Scott Pelley and other journalists were fired from the show.

https://t.co/P88WxWJPSa

[David Shuster @DavidShuster]

Wow. Reports 60 minutes could lose entire staff in weeks if not days. https://t.co/3jzRePK9Gh

[Geoff Bennett @GeoffRBennett]

NEW: Former 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft calls the changes under Bari Weiss "disastrous." He adds: "This is journalistic interference. It makes no business sense whatsoever. It's the highest rated news program on television, and it has been that way for more than 50 years. The audience was up about 9% last year. Why would you mess with that?" Our conversation airs tonight on the @newshour .

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Netanyahu saying it was “my plan to shift the framework for U.S.-Israel defense cooperation from aid to partnership.”

We had Josh Paul on BP this morning to break down what this means. It would give Israel extraordinary leverage over the U.S. by embedding their technology in our supply chains and weapons systems.

[Cahir O’Doherty @randomirish]

👀

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

Ireland’s data centre strain a ‘cautionary tale’ for rest of world, UN says https://t.co/3qZZWQkosg

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

We must face the reality that the Supreme Court has been captured by partisan hacks and ideological extremists.
https://t.co/GPZ8IJzl4X

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I swear to God we are living in Idiocracy. Everyday I think 'This can't be real.' But it is.
You couldn't write a satirical movie like the insane shitshow we are being forced to live through in real life.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Don't sleep on this

The UK is breaking up—and the world is breathing a huge sigh of relief

The British Empire, which never died, will not survive it

400 years of wrecking the world finally coming to an end

MI5, of course, will be working round the clock to hold back the tide

[Gentleman Doofus @GentleDoofus]

On one side, you have a seasoned journalist with decades of credibility and colleagues who can speak to his integrity, on the other, you have a lifelong bullshit artist who has failed upward by flattering the powerful. I just don’t know who to believe.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Things are going great over at @CBSNews

[Cahir O’Doherty @randomirish]

After the camps were liberated in 1945 many gay men (who had been forced to wear the pink triangle) remained imprisoned under the Nazi Paragraph 175 law for decades. The discriminatory laws not fully repealed in Germany until 1994.

[Rainbow Toffees @RainbowToffees]

"They had a pink triangle sewn on their chests": the real story of gay men who were sent to concentration camps

It could all start with a complaint.

A neighbor.
A co-worker.
A friend.
Even a family member.

All it takes was someone to say you were gay.

And your life could end.

During the Nazi regime, thousands of men were persecuted simply for loving other men. Many were arrested under a law known as Section 175, used to criminalize relationships between men. (Holocaust)

But the worst came after the arrest.

When they arrived at the concentration camps, they were forced to use a symbol that marked them in front of all the other prisoners:

a pink triangle sewn on clothes. (HISTORY)

That little piece of cloth meant a sentence of constant humiliation.

I identified them.
Los aislaba.
I was turning them into targets.

Many survivors recounted that men with the pink triangle used to receive some of the most dangerous and brutal jobs inside the fields. They also suffered violence not only from the guards, but even from other prisoners. (The Holocaust)

Imagine waking up every morning knowing that everyone could immediately recognize why you were there.

No privacy.
No defense.
Hopeless.

Some were sent off for medical experiments.
Others have died by forced labour.
So many just disappeared without a trace. Historians estimate that thousands of gay men were sent to concentration camps and that the mortality rate was extremely high. (Wikipedia)

And perhaps the most devastating part of this whole story happened after the war.

Because when the fields were liberated, many homosexual survivors weren't even recognized as victims.

The same law that had been used to incarcerate them continued to exist for decades. Some men were persecuted again even after surviving the Nazi horror. (Holocaust)

While other survivors could tell their story, many gay men had to go back into hiding.

Return to the silence.

Return to the fear.

And that's why the pink triangle ended up becoming something unexpected years later.

What had been created to humiliate and dehumanize ended up transforming into a symbol of memory, resistance and dignity for generations to come. (HISTORY)

Because behind every triangle there was something that regimes never managed to completely destroy:

a person who just wanted to love without fear.

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Scott Pelley just issued a statement on Bari's remarks this morning:

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm

[Cahir O’Doherty @randomirish]

He built his reputation before she was born. She was hired to change the path for CBS (and, many have argued, principled journalism).

[Variety @Variety]

CBS News boss Bari Weiss defends firing Scott Pelley at "60 Minutes," saying he broke the newsroom's "trust" and "that's the path he chose."

"I'm only interested in working in a newsroom that is built on trust and mutual respect. We cannot do our work without it. That foundation was broken and despite our attempts to engage with Scott Pelley and to find a way back, unfortunately we weren't able to do so, and so we had to part ways. We did not want that to happen, but that's the path that he chose. That unfortunate outcome does not discount from the amazing contributions and work that Scott Pelley has done for CBS and for '60 Minutes' over the course of his career. His stories just from this past season on '60 Minutes'... are unforgettable stories. And those are the kind of stories that have always, always typified '60 Minutes.' The kind of stories that Nick Bilton is going to put on the air come September in season 59 with the amazing team that's still there and hopefully from some new people that are going to be joining us."

https://t.co/UNDmIyCPBt