Disagreements, especially at an institution that once featured a Murderers' Row of journalists, aren't unusual. But the disrespectful airing of dirty laundry should be dis...
Scott Bessent traveled to the Reagan National Economic Forum last week and delivered a message that would have been almost unthinkable from a Republican treasury secretary a decade ago: America got globalization wrong. Speaking before an audience of Reagan Republicans, Bessent argued that both parties spent decades sacrificing industrial capacity, supply-chain resilience, and national security […]
CBS News fired a senior employee on Tuesday for violating the sacred journalistic principles of "trust and mutual respect." Scott Pelley, 68, got the axe after a preening confrontation with 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton in which Pelley disparaged his supervisor with "remarkable incivility and contempt."
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CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss defended the firing of longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, telling staff that a breakdown in “trust and mutual respect” left the network with no choice but to part ways with one of its most prominent journalists. “I’m only interested in working in a newsroom built on trust and mutual […]
Scott Pelley, the longtime veteran anchor of "60 Minutes" on CBS, said Wednesday that Bari Weiss' remarks to the staff of the show about his firing were "disingenuous."
MAGA radio host Megyn Kelly sounded off on CBS News chief Bari Weiss during a new episode of her show over the decision to fire veteran journalist Scott Pelley. Pelley was let go from CBS News on Tuesday "for cause," according to a letter obtained by NBC News. In the letter, CBS executive Nick Bilton said Pelley had shown contempt for the organization when he accused senior leadership of "murdering" the acclaimed show "60 Minutes" by firing journalists and producers. Kelly said on Wednesday that Pelley's firing was probably "overdue" because of his attitude, but she took issue with the way Weiss and CBS News handled the issue, which she described as "bush league.""There has to be some massaging of the team of talent and producers who are there or fire them all," Kelly said. "Do one or the other, but don't just try to say, 'I will parachute in somebody with zero experience, and you will respect him or else.' That's just not going to work.""It's been a blood bath over there," Kelly added.
When I was growing up in the pre-cable, pre-streaming '70s and '80s, there was this thing called “appointment television.” It meant a lot of people were watching the same show at the same time, because it was only on once. If you missed it, you’d have to wait for this thing called a “rerun” in the summer, when there was almost no original programming. Instead, the three networks, which were all we had besides a local channel here and there, just recycled all of the shows from their seasons, while everyone took the summer off, as if Hollywood were a school.“Appointment television” in my house meant watching 60 Minutes every Sunday night on CBS. My mother would order Chinese food (Jewish, New Jersey, ‘nuff said), and my father would go pick it up, returning with a giant box stuffed with all of our Americanized favorites. It was the only meal of the week eaten in front of the TV as a family. We sat on the couch and ate off of small square side tables, each of which had a border of fake jewels, one of my earliest tactile memories.My younger brother and I weren’t allowed to talk very much during 60 Minutes because we were LEARNING. “Sha!” my mother would hiss if we talked over Morley Safer or Harry Reasoner. “Quiet!” my father would yell if we dared say anything during Andy Rooney’s closing segment, his favorite part of the show. I’m now old enough to understand that my father wasn’t smart enough to absorb a lot of what we were LEARNING, which is why he preferred Andy’s pointed humor. Rooney smartly mocked dumb people, which included my father. Imagine if Donald Trump drove a delivery truck in Jersey; that’s who we’re talking about here.The lineup of correspondents may have changed and expanded over the years, but one thing about 60 Minutes has always remained consistent: Telling the truth.60 Minutes has a venerable track record of exposing lies, cover-ups, and scandals, as well as interviews and human interest stories that made Americans aware of the world at large. No matter the subject, there was never a time when the audience questioned the veracity of what they were being told and shown.But oh, how the mighty “Tiffany Network” has fallen. Remember the heavily edited 60 Minutes interview Trump finally did just before the 2024 election, after whining about the interview Kamala Harris did? You might recall CBS News paid Trump $16 MILLION after he whined that her interview, which had been full of facts, was “deceptively edited,” causing him “mental anguish” and “confusion among voters.” When Trump finally sat for the interview, 60 Minutes ran one heavily edited version, while Trump released a heavily edited 73-minute version that was “more favorable.” That was a glaring sign that we were headed down a very bad path, one paved with Putin propaganda.CBS/Paramount is now under the control of a bunch of Trumptraitors, which is an astonishing thing to witness. The Ellison family has pledged loyalty to a convicted felon adjudicated rapist whose name appears in the Epstein Files nearly as much as Jeffrey Epstein's. They pushed Stephen Colbert out and pressured CBS News journalists to placate Trump instead of pushing for the truth. But now the control of CBS News, the former home of Edward R. Murrow, was somehow handed to an inexperienced book editor whose biggest gigs were writing op-eds and reviews for The Wall Street Journal and The Forward, where she took a proud Zionist stance. Bari Weiss is about as qualified to be the Editor-In-Chief of CBS News as I am to fly a rocket. Interestingly, she’s been following me on Twitter forever, but she’s never once responded to any of my tweets that challenge her loyalty to Trump over the United States of America. Weiss has just hired equally inexperienced tech blogger Nick Bilton to help her commit treason and lie to the American people via CBS. Bilton tweeted that it’s “the honor of my career" to become the executive producer of 60 Minutes and then shared this tech bro-y introduction to his colleagues that set my skin on fire. Poorly written propaganda isn’t supposed to be anywhere near legitimate news networks. Nothing about this is normal, yet it’s being normalized.Bilton is the one who officially fired longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, all because Pelley has this annoying habit of maintaining his journalistic integrity.You can almost hear that in Trump’s voice, can’t you? Minus the bigger words, that is. Scott Pelley was fired because he refused to comply with orders from Weiss and Bilton to lie to protect Donald Trump. Read that again, because it’s true.It’s 2026 in the United States of America, but Weiss and Bilton are deploying Nazi tactics from the 1930s to silence the truth. Pelley responded to the firing by exposing the real reasons behind it. "New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story,” Pelley said in a statement. “I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified.
The firing of Scott Pelley by '60 Minutes' has angered all of the right people and exposed the fact that the liberal elites in our media have no idea how many people in America no longer trust them.
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