Shelton Bumgarner (sheltgarner.bsky.social)

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[Shelton Bumgarner (sheltgarner.bsky.social) @sheltgarner]

"Thoughts and prayers" ugh. #Pretti

[Shelton Bumgarner (sheltgarner.bsky.social) @sheltgarner]

@HOUSEOFTHINSPO gorgeous

[Shelton Bumgarner (sheltgarner.bsky.social) @sheltgarner]

@minasargs gorgeous

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

This is my shocked face

[Shelton Bumgarner (sheltgarner.bsky.social) @sheltgarner]

@JenSelter gorgeous

[Shelton Bumgarner (sheltgarner.bsky.social) @sheltgarner]

well, finished a novel at 126,000 words.

[Shelton Bumgarner (sheltgarner.bsky.social) @sheltgarner]

the enshittification of Twitter continues, I see.

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

I’m boycotting CBS and so should you.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

I’m Kid Rock.”
“I’m Naomi Wolf.”
“I’m Kanye West.”
“I’m Matt Taibbi.”
“I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

[Olivia of Troye @OliviaTroye]

Scott Pelley’s firing from 60 Minutes is a big loss for journalism.

Truth-tellers are never convenient.

[Shelton Bumgarner (sheltgarner.bsky.social) @sheltgarner]

@dookiss2 Gorgeous

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Scott Pelley’s full statement: “The waste is heartbreaking.”

https://t.co/EX2IinuLlv

[Ed O'Keefe @edokeefe]

The president is currently scheduled to maintain a closed schedule today.

Besides weekend glimpses of him playing golf, and a taped TV interview with his daughter-in-law that aired Saturday, he has not held a public event in a week.

[Variety @Variety]

Scott Pelley fires back at "60 Minutes" after being fired and says Paramount-Skydance is weakening the news show "apparently to curry favor with the Trump administration."

“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... 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. Incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc."

https://t.co/9KhIR5yOtj

[trey wingo @wingoz]

Bari Weiss is everything that’s wrong in TV journalism

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Do people at CBS understand that Trump has only a few years left in office?

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Bari Weiss is murdering 60 Minutes the right way.

by Ezra Klein

[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

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

NEW: Backstory on the drama at CBS News tonight...

Bari Weiss, Nick Bilton, Tom Cibrowski, and CBS HR invited Scott Pelley to a meeting at 5pm ET tonight to discuss a path forward after his vocal protest earlier this week in the 60 Minutes all-hands.

The two sides did not find common ground. Bari & Co. were left with sense that Scott was not open minded about reaching detente; meanwhile, Scott maintained strong frustrations with leadership.

Scott left meeting and was told they'd have an update on his employment in a matter of minutes... instead, Bari and her team deliberated for several hours.

At around 9:30 p.m., Nick Bilton, the new 60 Minutes E.P., sent this letter to Scott (see tweet below) in which he tells him he has been terminated "for cause." He also sent a memo to staff (see tweet below that).

The language in Nick's memo suggests a legal fight coming. No response yet from Pelley.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Where is the President?

[Paul Jacobs @PaulJacobsMedia]

I truly wish @PBS would hire the team that @60Minutes has fired, including those-soon-to-leave Scott Pelley etc. and create their own version of this iconic program. Ratings would be huge.
Good will would be even larger.