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.”
Homeboy is taking a flamethrower to the place on the way out. Nice.
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.
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.
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.
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
