Instead of Tangerine Palpatine's effing cage match, the hub and I watched Scott Pelley's hourlong interview with Lulu Garcia-Navarro. Well worth the watch. Best quote: "There is no democracy without journalism."
Paywall-free on YT: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ePqdmbgQ4BI&ra=m
We then followed this up with Storage Wars. Mindless entertainment of the best sort!
Even if this is true, what about the rest of CBS news? 🧐
#Paramount #Skydance’s CEO personally called correspondent Lesley Stahl to promise editorial autonomy after weeks of firings and allegations of political interference
• David Ellison called Stahl on Sunday to assure her #60Minutes would keep its editorial independence
• The outreach followed veteran correspondent #ScottPelley’s firing on June 3 after he accused #CBSNews editor-in-chief #BariWeiss of politically motivated editorial interference
• Stahl and fellow correspondents have vowed to stay at the program (for now🧐)
A veteran "60 Minutes" producer is bolting after clashing with CBS News boss Bari Weiss over a "white genocide" story, per a new report.Michael Gavshon worked alongside correspondent Anderson Cooper on a story that debunked Trump's claim of "white genocide" in South Africa, which left him exasperate...
CBS;s Nick Bilton & Bari Weiss are such colossal losers, it's comedy.
✅ CBS tried to rehire ousted 60 Minutes editor amid show upheaval - Daily Beast
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cbs-tried-to-rehire-ousted-60-minutes-editor-amid-show-upheaval/ar-AA25tybB
#cbs #60minutes #bariweiss #nickbilton
#media #fascism #60Minutes #déjà vu
"A ‘deficit of courage’ killed the free press in Germany. Will American journalists find the courage to thwart Trump?
In the saga of ’60 Minutes.’ troubling parallels with media submission to Adolf Hitler’s authoritarianism
Paul Reusch was managing director of a major German industrial conglomerate known as GHH, whose holdings included Bavaria’s largest newspaper, the *Münchner Neueste Nachrichten*.
After two meetings with Adolf Hitler early in 1932, Reusch signed an agreement that the Munich broadsheet would refrain from 'all unwarranted and personal attacks against Hitler and individual National Socialist leaders.'
One year later, Hitler lackeys were calling the shots in the newsroom, Jewish journalists had been forced out, and the newspaper was spewing hate propaganda.
The Third Reich brutally smashed free speech. Nearly a century later, it’s America’s Fourth Estate that is getting battered — by Donald Trump’s drive to muzzle his critics by exploiting the greed and hunger for power of corporate media executives.
Scott Pelley’s firing and the turmoil at CBS News are the freshest manifestations of this threat. But it’s been going on since the start of Trump’s second term — witness the craven settlements by ABC News and CBS News of frivolous lawsuits brought by Trump last year, his favored treatment of MAGA-aligned outlets, and his dehumanization of actual journalists.
'The news executives are acting as though, (if) we just placate Donald Trump we’ll get through this,' veteran TV journalist Jim Acosta said the other day in an interview on MS Now. 'We have a deficit of courage and honor in this country right now and we need to get back to it.'
It was a deficit of courage that killed the free press in Weimar Germany. And like Paul Reusch, German media baron Alfred Hugenberg is a case study in corporate submission to authoritarianism."
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