Whitney Clegg

@Electionland’s local reporters cover the 2018 election Reporter @CNN Investigations Unit @CUNYJSchool int'l reporting alumnus. Reporter @Reveal

[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

[Whitney Clegg @wlclegg]

@AP 😂

[Whitney Clegg @wlclegg]

@MichaelRapaport “Jealousy” assumes journalism is a popularity contest. It isn’t. Status ≠ merit. Punditry ≠ reporting. Grievance ≠ moral courage. Try shadowing an investigative newsroom, not a podcast mic. There’s no reporting to envy...

[Whitney Clegg @wlclegg]

@BalbuenaTyler @Timodc @vendettafred A condition that would have caused profound suffering and medical complications. These decisions are deeply personal and medical, not about abstract moral categories. Anyway, respectfully we can agree to disagree.

[Whitney Clegg @wlclegg]

@BalbuenaTyler @Timodc @vendettafred Regarding the eugenics comment, it helps to talk with an OBGYN or maternal-fetal specialist. “Disability” is a broad term, and the reality can be very complex. For example, a close friend had to terminate a pregnancy because of severe hydrocephalus.

[Whitney Clegg @wlclegg]

@BalbuenaTyler @Timodc @vendettafred There’s no uniform European abortion law. In the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, abortion is treated like routine medical care with broad access. In France, abortion is allowed up to 14 weeks and fully covered by the public health system.

[Whitney Clegg @wlclegg]

@BalbuenaTyler @Timodc @vendettafred I have to say this last thing that many overlook. Oftentimes, severe anomalies may not even be diagnosed until close to 20 weeks. And if those anomalies require an amniocentesis to look for chromosomes, those results can take up to two weeks.

[Whitney Clegg @wlclegg]

@BalbuenaTyler @Timodc @vendettafred …and I’m glad your mom did what was right for her.

[Whitney Clegg @wlclegg]

@perdigonman @Timodc again — https://t.co/QsoEDPo9Yo

[Whitney Clegg @wlclegg]

@perdigonman @Timodc Trump lost the shutdown, and so did the ppl buying their health insurance through the ACA RN. My point is that the political “winner” doesn’t matter — the shutdown was about ACA subsidies, and if Dems had taken the deal, consumers would’ve at least gotten a one-year extension.

[Whitney Clegg @wlclegg]

@BalbuenaTyler @Timodc @vendettafred The ex of “walking into a doctor’s office and demanding a lethal injection” doesn’t track with how medical autonomy works. Autonomy doesn’t mean “patients can ask for literally anything.” Patients have the right to make decisions w/in the bounds of established, legal medical care

[Whitney Clegg @wlclegg]

@Timodc @vendettafred Healthcare includes autonomy.
Part of health care is allowing patients to make decisions about their own bodies, risks, and futures. Abortion fits into that same framework—like choosing surgery, refusing treatment, or deciding on birth control.

[Whitney Clegg @wlclegg]

@Orangey222 @Timodc you don’t buy insurance through aca then

[Rotimi Adeoye @_rotimia]

The kids demand Alan Dershowitz