Right wing Bari Weiss given control of CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
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| Is Shakespeare's Henry VI "The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers" is the way to create anarchy. My suggestion is that to redeem our democracy is to rid ourselves of the billionaires and the end justifies the means. We could ship them to Snake Island off the coast of Brazil where they can live among their own species. |
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| Frumpy McRatingscollapse is out of her depth. A hypocrite, her repeated failures are a nice highlight each day! |
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New 60 Minutes show runner named …
Brb, gonna check their credentials. I’m sure identity politics didn’t factor into it … |
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Actially, you may see a true life Escape from New York soon. Maybe Kurt Russell had it right. Hooda thunk it. |
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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 58th season, 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.” |
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| I got a hearty laugh out of the statement by Bilton. What a steaming pile of dogshit that guy is, but you know, he’s got that essential quality that makes it all OK. RIP 60 Minutes. |
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Well, naturally he focused on how he was victimized by Pelley, so, uh … checks out. |
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He has no idea what he’s in for. I guess the same goes for that dork Weiss. |
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“ What's happening to CBS News is what the tech billionaires call ‘parallel’ strategy.
Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the ‘Network State."’” |
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She's not "frumpy" . She's a ghoul of a person, no matter what she wears. |