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.
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
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
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.
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.
Not sure why this was downvoted, it’s accurate. It’s scary and sad, but it’s accurate.
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
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
