Vandycat

Die hard Vandy fan for decades and possibly the only one you will see yelling at the refs in Chanel shoes and a Diet coke in hand. Go Dores and Anchor Down.

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

Why can't ABC or NBC hire the 60 minutes team and call the new show 59 Minutes?

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

@donwinslow @ScottPelley Take it to NBC or ABC and call it 59 minutes

[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

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you support Scott Pelley after CBS News has just fired him.

[Vanderbilt Men's Basketball @VandyMBB]

LUKE KORNET IS NBA FINALS BOUND ⚓️⬇️

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

@vandy_62 Is AK not coming back a done deal?

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

Horrible feeling tonight is not going to end well

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

@joey_dwy @DamichaelC @VandyOnSI more importantly, how did he do

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

@twentysidesmatt FRUSTRATION

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

@twentysidesmatt someone could grab him on the cheap too

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

@TaraSetmayer Done with 60 Minutes and there is no Colbert and sadly Jane Pauley will probably be next.

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

So are we not getting news on Tanner
until 11:00 tonight????

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

@dtovitz Now can they utilize the portal??????

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

@mcnultynash1 Deadline is in three days?

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

Stack will be fine in Chicago as long as a golf course and an Armani store are near by.

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

@mjfree kimmel, Myers, Fallon and Oliver

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

@LucasSa56947288 YES

[Vandycat @Vandycat3]

@Gentry_Estes @VandyMBB Don't you think that is contingent on what his ranking might be? if its 25 or under he is gone.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

After this Thursday’s show, the Ed Sullivan Theater will go dark, and we’ll lose one of the nation’s funniest and most courageous, truthful, and gentlemanly critics of Trump and his regime.

Farewell, and thank you, Stephen. https://t.co/0syXYZoCnD