“Incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc,” Pelley said in a statement, referring in part to CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss.
Pelley’s exit deepens the turmoil at “60 Minutes,” the leading newsmagazine on American television. In recent months, “60 Minutes” employees have clashed with CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss over the show’s editorial direction under its new corporate owner, Paramount Skydance, the media company run by technology scion David Ellison.
The tension reached a fever pitch Monday during a “60 Minutes” staff meeting designed to introduce employees to Bilton, a technology journalist tapped by Weiss to be executive producer of the program. Pelley laced into Bilton, according to an audio recording obtained by NBC News and a source who was in the room.
Bari Weiss is doing her job of sticking up for Israel at all costs
Ellison, whose Skydance Media took over Paramount in an $8 billion merger, looks set to expand his media empire with a $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN and HBO. The deal still needs sign-off from federal regulators.
What the monopoly? This fuckhead needs to be stopped.
CBS proves Scott Pelley right.
Jesus fucking Christ. He accused them of murdering 60 minutes, so they shank him while everybody’s watching - for insubordination. These hideous goblins want you to be afraid of them because they “don’t fuck around,” but really all they’re doing is permanently destroying anyone’s respect for them.
They are also killing a respected institution and treating its corpse as a marionette.
Nah. All this is, is sabotage of dissent.
We are in an information war right now. And losing.
US TV used to mock Soviet Russia about this.
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Pelley did not mention Weiss or Bilton by name in his lengthy written statement about his firing. But he said “new management” had instructed him to “inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story” and told him to report unverified assertions.
Paramount and CBS can suck it. I’m a Trekkie but it looks like I won’t be watching my favorite Star Trek shows for the foreseeable future.
I’ve watched all of Strange New Worlds so far but I’ve never once given CBS money over it
Stremio
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Your local library will get every season on bluray if they don’t already have it just ask. Or download any of the many better than stream quality rips.
A VPN lets you see how well supported the de-Paramount trek fans are. Try it, the waters of the high seas are waiting.
Take this. Stay low. You’ll know when we’re clear.
I’ve been a Drag Race fan from the beginning, but I stopped watching any of the programming since the Paramount/Skydance merger. With the next merger I’m going to have to VPN into Canada or 🏴☠️ the next season of Heated Rivalry.
Wait, is WoW owned by paramount now?
Not ownership of WoW, but all the US programs and maybe UK/Canada are exclusive to Paramount+ at least as a first run, barring any recent changes I don’t know about.
Ah, got it. That’s at least better than what I thought, but still not great.
it looks like I won’t be watching my favorite Star Trek shows for the foreseeable future.
Because no one else is.
60 Minutes is dead. The other presenters (and writers, etc who don’t agree with new mgmt) should quit now if they have any principles and self-respect. Besides they’re old and rich, why would they want to stay on anyway? Show some solidarity/integrity.
CBS and paramount is dead. Just wait for the first nazi star trek. Its coming. Full of big boobs and mini skirts with a lot of evil brown aliens.
Taylor Sheridan’s Star Trek: The Search for Huge Racks
tbh i’d be down for a return of the miniskirts
Roddenberry tried to bring it back in TNG. Reviews were… mixed.
I resent the fact that they referred to that trust fund baby as a technology scion. He’s a technology scion in the same way a 16 year old is a race car driver after his dad bought him a Corvette.
It doesn’t imply that he’s technical. The Merriam-Webster definition of scion being used here is “a descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family”.
His family is wealthy because of technology (Oracle) and he’s the descendant.
He should consider himself lucky Weiss didn’t sic the IDF on him
Yet
Zionists and magats don’t want real journalism
Retaliatory firing seems right on-brand.
Make sure the Wikipedia article describes the causes of the death of 60 Minutes accurately in its ~60th year.
Recorded footage of the event:
Bari Weiss: And another thing - you’re fired! And that’s official!
He couldn’t have more kids, because of his semen.
I like how the moment CBS got bought out, it started showing up every 5 seconds on my youtube feed because they obviously chucked money into making sure people still view it as some quality news channel and want to exemplify that nothing changed.
