Mark Graham

Editor-in-Chief, @Decider. Picker / Grinner / Lover / Sinner. Michigan grad. #GoBlue

[Mark Graham @unclegrambo]

SOME PERSONAL NEWS: The Graham fam — @keanesian, @Maxabillions, Zach, and your Uncle Grambo — have LAUNCHED A PODCAST! It's called BACK IN MY DAY, and in each episode, we discuss two movies with our 12-year-old: One from when I was 12, and one from when Meghan was 12.

[Mark Graham @unclegrambo]

Spending 60 seconds reading through Rex’s thoughts on 60 MINUTES is a good use of your time.

[Rex Sorgatz @fimoculous]

No exaggeration — I've watched every episode of 60 Minutes in the past 30 years. I have a few observations... 👇

[Mark Graham @unclegrambo]

@fimoculous Good thread. 🧵

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

NEW: Scott Pelley accuses Bari Weiss of lying about what took place in their meeting before he was fired....

[Mark Graham @unclegrambo]

Re: our current moment

The thing that seems patently clear is that these charlatans are fundamentally uninterested in building things. Erosion — be it in stability, institutions, broad principles like trust — is the name of the game, wrapped in a cloak of “disruption.”

[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

[Matthew Belloni @MattBelloni]

“For cause.” Here come the lawyers….

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

A former Brazilian model has claimed the first lady was an “escort” for Epstein and met the president through the notorious sex offender.
https://t.co/qrItNdB3Vc

[Gracie @graciem120001]

Sean Fennessey Apex Mountain

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

NEW: In @NickBilton’s first all-hands meeting at 60 Minutes this morning, @ScottPelley told Nick he had “scant qualifications” for the job and pressed him to account for last week’s firings.

Nick suggested conversation would be better held in private, Scott countered that he’d prefer to have them in front of his colleagues.

Nick told Scott, “they’re my colleagues too,” to which Scott replied: “that remains to be seen.”

I’ll have much more in tonight’s In The Room: https://t.co/PMMNkZRpuB

@PuckNews

[Mark Graham @unclegrambo]

Man, that Champagne dude on the Spurs sure has a smooth stroke. Wemby in the Finals is exactly what the NBA needed. Two weeks of disastrous “SGA is a Foul Merchant” discourse avoided. (Ironically, SGA was NOT seeking out fouls in 2nd half tonight. Did discourse get to him?!?)

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Philip Alito introduced himself as "Phil" in Treasury meetings. No public résumé. Not on the department website. Bar listings with incorrect employer information. "There's no doubt he got that position because of who he is." Treasury won't say whether ethics forms were filed.

[Mark Graham @unclegrambo]

@freedarko

[Mark Graham @unclegrambo]

@MattWalshBlog @rkylesmith Imagine how pissed you’ll be when you learn how badly they’ve bungled things that actually matter, like the economy, infectious diseases, the environment, and the entire global world order.

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

Everyone should read what Senior Vice President of Exxon Neil Chapman says about the oil price surge coming in 2-3 weeks

The next wave of the energy shock is approaching fast

[Mark Graham @unclegrambo]

@weareyourfek When the cocaine wine hits yr bloodstream…

[FOSTER @weareyourfek]

AHHHH!!!!!!! SUMMER FRIDAYS IS BACK https://t.co/uY13GtBVRm

[Mark Graham @unclegrambo]

@tylercoates if you score some cocaine wine please text me!!

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Trump bought stock in the UFC’s parent company while promoting fights set to take place at the White House on his birthday, HuffPost has learned https://t.co/giO1zkDIGV

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is what Trump's done to the people's house:

A third of it is rubble.

Another third is a cage match.

What a metaphor.

[Adam Graham @grahamorama]

Obsession and Backrooms are the Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan of summer 2026