Stephane DeRienzis

love my kids...tennis....beach....pets

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “Boycott every fucking thing on CBS News. From the morning all the way through to the evening. These are the same people that fired Stephen Colbert because Trump got his feelings hurt by a comedian. These people are the biggest bunch of pussies that masquerade with these grandstanding letters like they’re such badasses. These people don’t care about the truth, they don’t care about journalism, they don’t care about the Constitution, they don’t care about a free press. It’s just absolutely devastating what these oligarchs have done to our country”

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, gutted USAID, which supports some of the poorest people in the world.

Now there's an Ebola outbreak in the Congo, which USAID could have helped prevent or slow.

When you dismantle the systems that stop deadly diseases, people needlessly die.

[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

[Stephane DeRienzis @SDeRienzis]

@barstoolsports Oh my God, my son is a junior there. I am embarrassed.

[Leaundra Ross 🪷💙💚🏈⚾️ @LeaundraRoss]

Welp 😮
He said what he said.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This video is incredible.

Everyone should RETWEET it so the whole *world* sees it.

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Wait... @PeteButtigieg debated 25 undecided Michigan voters?!

WHAT

Is there anything he won't do? this man is fearless

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Wisconsin, your vote will make all the difference in this election. I’m asking you to reach out to your friends, parents, siblings, neighbors, and work with them to make a plan to vote. 

Two days – that’s all the time we have left until Election Day. Let’s get this done!

[Stephane DeRienzis @SDeRienzis]

@dougiedonnelly @andy_murray 💯 We are so grateful.

[Scott Barclay @BarclayCard18]

It'll always be so weird to me that people think Andy Murray should have actually retired back in 2019 because if he had, we wouldn't have had all this:

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

The content you never knew you needed 🤣

Introducing Overheard at #Wimbledon

[The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @LorenzoTheCat]

A message from Willow the White House cat: "Folks, I ain't leaving this place."

[Murray Musings Podcast @MurrayMusing]

🤔

From Andy's insta...

[Scott Barclay @BarclayCard18]

Absolutely wild to think that this time next week, there is a somewhat reasonable chance (please dear tennis gods, don't make it so...) that Andy Murray will have played his last ever professional tennis match...

One of a kind. Never again. Legend.

[LTA @the_LTA]

Back to work 🎾

@andy_murray | #Wimbledon

[Murray Musings Podcast @MurrayMusing]

If you have a chance this summer to witness Andy Murray playing on Wimbledon Centre Court, we must implore you to make the most of it because it's going to be a VERY long time before we see anything close to such a scene again.

Drink it all in, for the cup's almost empty. 🙏

[Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX]

Arrests being made right now & will continue until the crowd disperses.

These protesters belong in jail.

Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period.

Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled.

[John 🦊 @jony_sinner]

I have so many questions 💀💀 who voted for this

[Stephane DeRienzis @SDeRienzis]

@BarclayCard18 agreed