Veteran journalist says executives pushed unverified claims and gave politicians a say in interviews
Pelley criticized the new leadership at CBS, adding: “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.”
He continued: “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.”
Specifically Barri Weiss who is paid millions to defend people worth billions.
In other words, she’s a Netanyahu toadie.
Good on him for having a backbone. Hopefully he lands in something that ends up taking the majority of the viewership. Maybe a new show called “65 minutes” where the last 5 minutes of every show it dedicated to torching the latest conservative hypocrisy.
I would love a 60 Minutes alternative. I don’t think it’s safe to watch it anymore. But I miss it from before all this nonsense.
But I’m not sure what network would it go on? Comedy Central? But that’s paramount, which is… cbs. Can I still trust the daily show even?
Maybe they could put it on abc. At the very least abc refused to fire Kimmel at trumps whim, because a bunch of fans protested by boycotting Disney+ and the network listened. I mean, that’s the best we can do now? I guess?
61 minutes?
While being part of a network would help in the immediate I feel like the best they could do in the long term is start doing it independently. One of the biggest issues we have right now is how many sources of information are the old corrupted or corrupting media giants, if a bunch of the old guard reporters and journalists broke away and did their own thing that would help break the current status quo.
Would be mice. How will they afford to pay themselves though?
Raid the cheese factory?
Such a thing would need to be somewhere other than the OTA broadcast networks because those are subject to the FCC and Brendan Carr and would never see an end to the attempts to silence them.
Independent Media on YouTube, Substack, etc. is growing, but you have to curate carefully, and keep your Critical Thinking Skills on high alert at all times. They spew out lot of propaganda, too. Nothing like the Conservative Propaganda Machine, but they’re working on it.
Good point. But any mainstream streaming platform (where it would actually get views) like Netflix, Apple TV, etc. it would then be subject to the control of the tech bros, who are also sucking trumps balls.
Homeboy is taking a flamethrower to the place on the way out. Nice.
Sometimes it’s the only way to identify a journalist with standards is when they get fired for holding to those standards, I hope they get enough supporters to do independent reporting without depending on a corrupt corpo paycheck
This is exactly how propaganda works.
Goes without saying, but it’s incredibly hard to speak truth to power even knowing it would likely cost him the job he’s devoted his life to for decades. Most of us have already stopped trusting CBS News, but this is a big signal to all the regular folks that there’s political interference.
The only thing that could make Pelley, Alfonsi and the other departed staff’s actions even better (which of course they don’t owe us, but just saying) would to be to start or join a different organization and keep their reporting alive. The biggest thing which we all still lose if they disappear is that their journalistic and ethical standards are that much harder to keep alive for the next generation.
Yep, the call was coming from inside the house.
They are doing it on purpose. Destroying any semblance of actual reliable news. Its why twitter was killed off, your Facebook feed is bots and Faux News exists. Control the information. Occupy Wall street was a very scary time for them.
Twitter was always shit. Eron Muskrat is so high on his own supply, I don’t think he’s capable of following a master plan like that. He’s a pathetic man who wants people to listen to him.
You sound like someone who avoided Twitter to begin with, and that’s fair it was always a mess.
But there is a very very clear difference between what Twitter was and what X is, and a good way to sum it up is that the people who reply “shut up and go away, Jew” to anything Bernie Sanders posts do not get banned anymore, and they’re everywhere now
It was pretty decent around the failwhale days. went downhill quick though
People and non-people.
Musk may be pathetic, he has also mentally challenged clearly. And a jackass obviously, but it was never more than a tool for Peter Thiel and their ilk he’s not the brains behind anything.
Barri Weiss is one of the worst people in the country. Her whole job, for as long as she’s been a public figure, has been to sane-wash fascism.
Well to be fair, worst people in the country is a hotly contested title.
I say we let them fight it out to the death on the White House lawn.
Americans, the cancer is spreading. These are the first waves of people with integrity being uprooted. They will be replaced with puppets and you will be drowning in propaganda as you’ll only have propaganda outlets available to you.
As a citizen from the other side of the world, it’s scary to watch your downward spiral into fascism and how little you’re doing about the amoeba in charge. And you’re dragging everyone else down along yourselves.
how little you’re doing about the amoeba in charge.
What would be the response you’re looking for? Something like 5-6 people already tried to kill him. All the kinds of protests you’d see elsewhere only work when the government actually gives a fuck about what the people want. The no kings protests are worthless. The only thing that could possibly have an affect would be a sustained strike, but people live paycheck to paycheck and have no social safety net to rely on like people do in other countries if they lose their jobs. There’s also the issue of the already existing propaganda machine keeping us all at odds with each other. Organizing is non-existent and has been essentially deemed terrorist activity by the government now if they can pin the antifa lable on you.
Cyberattacks and information warfare on a massive scale. Coordinated catfishing and social engineering efforts to expose and ruin MAGA lives. Cut off contact with complicit family members and acquaintances. Want to do a cute little “no kings” parade? Fine- do them on loading docks and at airports. Disrupt work in key areas. Industrial and corporate sabotage. Denial of employment. Denial of services.
And be clear about the fact that this is the STARTING point and you WILL escalate.
And oh, hey- you’re literally sitting on a pile of decorated generals, heads of intelligence and national security agency leaders who have been forced out by Trump for insufficiently licking boot or have resigned in protest of Trump.
Mark Milley
CQ Brown
H.R. McMaster
Jim Mattis
Meroe Park
Dan Coats
Joseph Maguire
Jeffrey Kruse
Alexander Vindman
Tim Haugh
Milton Sands
John Kelly
Lisa Franchetti
Where are these cowards? A few are clowning around on social media. If you won’t do anything and these people won’t stand up, you’re absolutely fucked
The United States needs a General Strike.
The companies that support Trump do so because they make more money.
Harm the money flow, cite the regime as the reason, and watch industry punt the fucker.
Their comment addressed why we can’t do that. We cannot individually afford to become homeless. The economic coercion has been planned and calculated.
These are the first waves of people with integrity being uprooted.
Oh, we’re way past the first wave.
Not sure why this was downvoted, it’s accurate. It’s scary and sad, but it’s accurate.
The Nazi corporate takeover of mass media is nearly complete. Oracle owner Larry Ellison has control of TikTok, Bezos with the Washington Post, David Ellison (son of Larry Ellison) owns Paramount which owns CBS and many others, Fox was always Murdoch, Ellison was also trying to buy Warner Bros which owns CNN.
Curtis Yarvin would be proud of the takeover of “The Cathedral”.
edit: OF COURSE how could I forget the OG Nazi Elon Musk with Twitter
Please keep your reporting alive
Join Nebula or something, start a competitor to 60 minutes, call it 30 seconds or something, but do the same thing you were known for; hard hitting journalism
I’ve been watching More Perfect Union a lot lately, it’s definitely more labor left, but it’s good investigative journalism
