John P. Wise

Emmy, Murrow Award-winning newsguy leading digital @wsyx6. Words, pictures, people, travel, food. Diehard Ohio guy. Wears plaid, sneezes a lot. Steak snob.

[John P. Wise @wisejohnp]

I’ve got a second Instagram account called @cribscolumbus where I post black-and-white, sketch-like edits of homes I like.

Feel free to follow if you’re into that sort of thing.

[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

[WSYX ABC 6 @wsyx6]

TODAY'S THE DAY! ABC6, Great Clips, Clippers event to benefit cancer research at The James. Details >> https://t.co/KWu3FTQnAF

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Worst slide I’ve ever seen goes to this dude 😂

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@mike96bennett who did y’all just interview? I want to get his book

[Columbus Library @columbuslibrary]

Was just informed that Ohio ranks #1 in library circulation AND in Mountain Dew sales. Living the dream

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Kevin Harlan’s enthusiasm on the mic makes me forget that the Cavs just got housed in that third quarter. He’s so good.

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Good morning, Columbus. Have a great Friday!

Got in to work a little tardy this morning because I hadn't shot a sunrise in a little bit, and this one looked like it was going to be a good one! Hope you have a lovely weekend!

[John P. Wise @wisejohnp]

Harden makes 31 of first 32 FTs of this series. Misses last three of four?

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@HHReynolds @Outkick How come you’re the third person to think I’d be interested in this content?

[Tony Roundtree @Tonywithyy]

The year is 2046. College football has a 64 team playoff. Notre Dame gets an automatic bid if they win 1 regular season game. Every game is played in Atlanta or Dallas. National championship game is the first week of March. Transfer portal is open weekly. Presented by Fan Duel

[Christian Stegmaier @cstegmaier]

Assuming Ted Turner’s funeral will start at 7:05 pm.

[JAMESJO @JamesJo78986928]

I asked AI to show me the average student at every major Ohio public university

[John P. Wise @wisejohnp]

Good Friday morning, Columbus! Have a great day, yall!

[Paul Rees. ex Rucksack. @HannahIamthest1]

A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus spilled its load leaving New York.
Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, surprised, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, confounded, astonished, and numbed.

[John P. Wise @wisejohnp]

Me: Summer travel is fast approaching I need to watch the spending.

Also me:

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@AnthonyRothman Sorry to stalk dude but is your “good feet store” ad also an homage to “a few good men?”

[John P. Wise @wisejohnp]

@AnthonyRothman thank you for the subtle “few good men” reference!

[John P. Wise @wisejohnp]

Will the White House correspondent who misspelled correspondents in her kissy-face selfie tweet at the shooting scene that she later took down take down the other tweets that were also horribly incorrect?

I'm almost as mad about this as I am about the shooting itself.

[John P. Wise @wisejohnp]

How would a human describe the shooter bypassing the checkpoint? “He was sprinting.”

How are cable news anchors describing it: “Rapid speed” and “quick pace.”

Terrible.

[Albert Breer @AlbertBreer]

All 11 defensive starters from Ohio State's CFP title game win over Notre Dame, 15 months later, have become NFL draft picks, none going lower than the fifth round. And that doesn't count Arvell Reese, who was rotating in as a backup.

#NFLU

[John P. Wise @wisejohnp]

@bradgobucks2 @GMA @dennisdoddcbs @ABC @LinseyDavis Are you a parody account?