shmaraksmpr

Corp Comms/Marketing Pro. Adjunct Faculty, Northwestern University. Father, Husband. That’s enough.

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I cannot wait to see how @celtics PR positions this move for their team....#BostonGotFleeced

[Jim Costa @JimCosta_]

Oh so it was that easy to get an MVP candidate?

[Natalie Korach @NatalieKorach]

CNN's resident fact-checker Daniel Dale hasn't conducted an on-air fact check of Trump in more than three months, a stretch that coincidentally began around the same time Paramount announced its merger with WBD

https://t.co/Dz1WySs2E8

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I hope @nyknicks fans start a new cheer on Tuesday night. "Kris-tin-Wel-ker!" (Clap, clap, clap clap clap) #GoKnicks

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Heroes don’t always wear masks and capes. #ScottPelley

[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

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@RapSheet @TomPelissero @AdamSchefter This video taken of Les Snead about his future draft picks. My goodness....

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@ErmanniMedia Over.

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TACO of the Sea. Or is it See?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Drugs coming by sea meaning coming by water. A lot of people don’t know what I mean by sea. They think I mean vision. I’m talking about sea like the sea.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

OMFG!

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

No, you imbecile. That’s a 98.33% drop. No math besides make-believe math makes it 600%.

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@FreddieandHD, @HDouglas83 , @ColemanESPN , #LoveFriday request—Love Me In A Special Way, DeBarge. Love the show!

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@atrupar Pot, meet kettle.

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@TheStalwart @KateClarkTweets Headline: “Allbirds Flew the Coop” unless you have one better.

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WTF @Citibank is the deal with your digital/credit card portal? I actually want to GIVE you money to pay my bill. It has been “loading” for an hour

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@woodwardsports @DetroitKoolAid @DetroitPistons @NBA My thought? "Tomorrow is Wednesday." Not a big deal.

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Nice to see @TheAthleticNBA and @talkhoops give love to the @DetroitPistons. Hope y'all vote for @tralang_21 as Exec of the Year and @jbbickerstaff_ as Coach of the Year. Both have changed the culture and formed a REAL team. #DetroitBasketball

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@realBlagojevich My daughter and a lot of other women could throw better than you. Talk about a turnover.

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@UnSportsESPN needs a cooking technique bracket. Suggestion—the 8 seed Flambé and 7 seed En Pappilotte are wild cards.
#loveindoorgrilling

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@atrupar Why is it that every time I see Oz speak I think he’s on shrooms? Here is another case.

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Hey @AmericanAir can you give an update on #4663? Gate agents at #ORD are being useless when giving details why our flight is delayed.

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@TransUnion AI-based phone representatives are ABYSMAL. Taking 20 minutes to find a real person is terrible.

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@kaitlancollins In other news, it’s Friday.