Scott Pelley told the truth. So CBS News fired him.

New statement from Scott Pelley:   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 58thseason, 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

Ma’am 🔥🔥🔥 Naomi is out of f*cks and I love it.

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Morgan Freeman on @Lawrence just now said the current @POTUS is taking the USA down the shithole. Morgan effing Freeman y’all. I howled.👏🏿

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Going down the rabbit hole. Who can forget Jesse Jackson in The Question is Moot!

Pouring one out for The Reverend Jesse Jackson. A giant and a champion for civil rights and equality. But can anyone read Green Eggs and Ham better? No.

Meanwhile… Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: “I was at UCLA during the height of many of the protest movements that shaped our country over the coming decades. As a student, I participated in some peaceful protests. When I was asked to join the Olympic basketball team in 1968 I refused because I couldn’t be a spokesperson for a country that was openly and actively repressing the rights of Black people. I also wouldn’t support the head of the Olympic committee, who was a known racist and anti-Semite My activism since then was to be a symbol of a Black athlete who cared as much about his country and the people in it as he did about championships and selling sneakers.”

I don't understand why @SenRickScott can make the time to send out this stupid tweet, but not pay back the $1.7 billion his company stole from taxpayers in Medicare fraud

There's no CEO or university president in America who would keep their job if they posted something like this. America will one day need to have a reckoning over this era.

Today, on what would have been Trayvon Martin’s 31st birthday, our museum shines light on his life and legacy. His mother Sybrina Fulton remembers him as an adventurous kid who loved planes and aspired towards a career in aviation.

So well-deserved! Rest easy 👑 Miss you always.

Behold the poet. Pray for peace. Push for justice.

A solid explainer here if you’re keeping up. May the Reiners rest in peace.

If only. Label it Rip Van Winkle, politics edition.

of all of the things I am going to not watch, this is the thing I am going to not watch the most

You have decided to repeatedly platform voices that fuel division, dehumanization and white nationalism—while sidelining the diverse perspectives of people being harmed—reveals a clear disregard for equity. You should be ashamed because you have chosen racism over community.