Scott Pelley accuses Bari Weiss of pushing 60 Minutes edits
Scott Pelley told The New York Times that CBS News chief Bari Weiss pressured 60 Minutes producers to reshape a segment about Renee Good, citing emails that urged language portraying Good as driving toward an officer. Pelley said those notes arrived hours after a deadline and pushed wording that echoed President Trump's portrayal of the shooting. After his firing from 60 Minutes, Pelley urged Paramount to remove Weiss, saying her interventions threatened the show's editorial independence. The allegations spotlight potential political influence over a flagship news program and could further erode public trust in CBS News reporting.
First Anderson Cooper walked away, then came the firings of Tanya Simon, Cecilia Vega. But Scott Pelley’s termination marks the death of CBS News, @briantylercohen.bsky.social writes. Media companies are no longer just bending the knee to Trump, they’re actively carving themselves out whole.
Art Weber3Things Trump threatens: *World peace *Free speech & press *Free & fair elections *Rule of law *Checks & balances *Fair wages & taxes *Soc. Security *Healthcare *Environment *Education *The rights of women, workers, voters, consumers, minorities, immigrants, LGBTQ Resist! indivisible.org 5calls.org
pammageddon.bsky.social2Controlling information is how tech oligarchs and the wealthy in general institute propaganda-driven fascism.
Every effort Bari Weiss has made to leave her bubble & affect the real world in some way -- her "university," CBS News, this race -- has completely blown up in her face.
Bright Bart9The GOP as a whole is making the mistake of thinking that voter frustration automatically translates into support for conservative candidates. In California, the Free Press inferred a statewide ideological realignment from limited evidence and then interpreted every data point through that lens.
JOSHUA4Think an issue is that there is an infrastructure on the Right where she can still make a lot of money despite any of these failures.
Wow, listen to this and share it. That is how Trump infects the press. Free press is going to be killed with bastards like Trump and Bari Weiss.
KatnissRises8Bari Weiss is disgraceful. 60 Minutes is being destroyed. Scott Pelley is Heroic, a rare breed--a journalist who insists on reporting the truth. God Bless him & let the white light of the Universe surround and protect him.🙏💫💫💫
Debra Davidson5As of this year, US media ranks #64 on the GLOBAL Press Freedom Index due to prioritizing corporate & political self interests over publishing the unvarnished truth. You have to tune into various EU countries, Ireland, Canada, etc, — who hold all the top spots on the Index — to gain the latter.
Bari Weiss opened her first meeting with CBS's 60 Minutes staff by asking "Why does the country think you're biased?" These people live in such a bubble of loud assholes they've had themselves convinced for the last decade that California is always on the verge of a red tidal wave.
Toroid4Even their attempts to juice Pratt are so conspicuously substanceless. Bari Weiss and her ilk aren’t just post-truth, they’re post-meaning. It’s like they’re genuinely incapable of seeing the world beyond this layer of artifice, like they really think that’s all there is.
Deedee884Like the heartbreak of Texas always being on the cusp of a blue wave…
New from me: Bari Weiss' repeated attempts to put a pro-Trump spin on news stories at 60 Minutes is outrageous. She should be fired. Today. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
Elizabeth Winter5But isn't that the point? An Orban-style strangling of real news?
regmt.bsky.social2By who? Wasn’t this her mission? Either to inhibit real news journalism that might reflect poorly on Trump and his GOP WH, or to destroy a widely viewed real news program? Or both?
Grouchy Smurf2This is exactly what Ellison wants. She's not gonna be fired.
Incredible interview with Scott Pelley who seems incapable of understanding Bari Weiss is doing exactly what she was hired to do. He keeps talking as if the ellisons just need to know that it’s gone awry. He has no idea they are the ones doing all of this. Fascinating
Arlan Hellison (famous)107love the part where he’s like “she told me to find footage that makes protestors look violent and obviously I had already done this but she said it wasn’t damning enough???? I don’t understand??????”
bob barker 🍸18A man convinced they’re not bad actors because they talk like him
Mike Nitabach17"They need to understand that huge amounts of ppl are going to suffer & die without vaccination!!!" Sorry, pal, but they do. It's just part of the plan.
Dr. Gabagool and the Salami of Secrets6it really kind of reminds me of how a lot of newly minted ex-Scientologists' biggest criticism is that the church has drifted from L. Ron Hubbard's original plan rather than the whole plan being a scam in the first place, they're convinced that if they just did it right everything would've been fine
Mike Nitabach5Exactly the same delusional shit as scientists all trying to explain "how essential scientific research is to the US economy & standing in the world & amelioration of infectious disease, climate, other risks".
Hedonism IV: Skull Island5I assume he’s media savvy enough to know what is happening, but he assumes that committing to the bit of being “a newsman” will rally the people to his aid One of the reasons Sorkin is so successful is the people who hold the “real” jobs believe in that shit to their core
Mike Nitabach4THEY KNOW ALL OF THAT. They are simply not motivated by the same things as the naifs who just want to "explain"...
Ryan4People shouldn't lionize the show because it was good. I remember mainly segments on animal studies they would blow out of proportion as likely cures for things like cancer and Alzheimer's. That's not how that works!
Ricky B2Pelley, as would anyone else in his situation, is launching a PR campaign. He is also likely preparing a lawsuit over the termination of his contract to give him leverage in severance negotiations. Ellison would probably sign the severance check. You don't point the blame at that guy.
Jennifer Schulze says it well. CBS should fire Bari Weiss.
Bryan Sorohan5I think it's only logical and prudent to assume that until she is removed, any story appearing on a CBS news program, including 60 Minutes, has been interfered with by management for political purposes. I wouldn't trust a profile of Mother Theresa on that network right now.
Jack Crawford5Unsaid by most: I refuse to watch 60 Minutes now, regardless of the holdouts/sellouts who've stayed on. They alone do not override the substantial damage that's been done to the brand; if anything, their lack of courage sullies it further.
The Metaphysicalist3She is now the BS in CBS, they won't fire her.
Oh wow, Bari Weiss didn’t even come to that crucial meeting with the 60 Minutes team. It was just Nick Bilton and one of Bari’s deputies. This is crazy!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!
America's #1 Popeyes Enjoyer9It is very funny just how bad she is at all of this
Chad5I believe it was reported that the execs did not want Bari to attend (encouraged her to stay away) because of how much she is disliked by the 60 crew. They believed her presence would be counterproductive.
worm3she’s got a lot on her mind
Aaron Blackshear2I can be OK with messy but you have to embrace the mess. If you precipitate mess and duck the mess? I can make it messier. You have no idea my capacity for mess!