Scott Pelley told the truth, got fired, and became a hero

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We’re going to try this again, apparently. Welp. Good luck with all that.

Nick Bilton, the new producer of 60 Minutes, fired Scott Pelley after Monday’s fierce confrontation:

 

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This was hardly surprising; Pelley knew what he was doing when he spoke up, and it was clear that his remaining on the show was going to be untenable. In fact, I suspect he wanted to be fired so as to make people pay attention to what is happening at CBS (and in the media universe as a whole).

Pelley released this revealing statement:

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.

Scott Pelley

 

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(And hire everyone else who has been fired because of President Asshole):

 

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Pelley is just the most recent journalist forced out of CBS News thanks to President Insecurity.

Jim Acosta is here to remind you that all of this bullshit is not new:

Y’all all know that pretending that the stars of a rom-com are romantically involved while promoting said rom-com is the oldest Hollywood stunt of all time, right? SO WHY ARE ALL THESE OUTLETS WRITING ABOUT THIS NON-THING?

Here’s what good promotion looks like:

 

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Oh good, we’re still talking about the Roast of Kevin Hart. 

How dare you, Ted Cruz. I expect so much less from you.

Congratulations to Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond!

You have one last chance to purchase a bit of late-night history.

Renewals

Cancellations

In Development

Casting News

Mark Your Calendars

Fox has announced their summer premiere dates:

  • Nation’s Dumbest: July 15
  • Kitchen Nightmares: July 21
  • Beat Shazam: July 28

 

  • America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders returns on Netflix on June 16.
  • Silo will return on Apple TV on July 3.
  • Lot Patrol debuts on BET on June 30.
  • Tony Hinchcliffe: Man of the People debuts on Netflix on June 9.
  • Husbands in Action premieres on Netflix on June 19.

R.I.P.

Owain Rhys Davies, Actor in Twin Peaks and The OA, among others

Ernest Chambers, 11-time Emmy nominee and showrunner for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Peabo Bryson, Grammy-winning R&B artist

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Clarkson’s Farm: Season five premiere. Prime Video

Michael Jackson: The Verdict: This documentary explores the part of the story the feature film didn’t touch: the sexual abuse trial of Michael Jackson. Premiere. Netflix

Late Night:

  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Nick Jonas, Amy Sedaris, Violet Grohl
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers: Will Forte, Alison Brie
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live: Kevin Hart, Draymond Green
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