And @bradstevens before you whine about the examples your AI tool generated for you, you should know that Weiss was hired in October 2025, after the most recent 60 Minutes season had begun, with several episodes already completed or in production. Also, longtime heavyweight (producer, senior producer, executive editor and finally executive producer) Tanya Simon was still in place. She, along with several correspondents (including Pelley) and staffers were canned very recently.
The show's transition to a Trump/MAGA platform will be fully evident next season.
Edit: I see you've already whined, right on cue.
One of your bullets refers to Hegseth's "evasive answers to questions about whether he would carry out Trump's order to seize ballots and voting machines during the 2026 midterms." Not so far-fetched then, is it, little buddy?
this is precisely what Bill Maher complains about with leftists. You don’t realize how far you’ve moved and blame others as if they were the problem.
@bradstevens Let me state it more clearly: Scott Pelley on his worst day presents more objective fact-based news than Joe Rogan could ever hope to do in his wettest dream, so people cheering Pelley's downfall for reasons of subjectivity should probably take a goddamn seat and shut the fuck up.
It's not 2005. Everyone can be a journalist. The market decides who is objective and who is not. And Rogan is kicking their a#%es.
nonsense. If @unclemark says a lesbian centrist who ran the NYT OpEds for years is MAGA, we must believe him.
Can you show me where I've said that? I need to correct it -- if I did.
And @bradstevens before you whine about the examples your AI tool generated for you, you should know that Weiss was hired in October 2025, after the most recent 60 Minutes season had begun, with several episodes already completed or in production. Also, longtime heavyweight (producer, senior producer, executive editor and finally executive producer) Tanya Simon was still in place. She, along with several correspondents (including Pelley) and staffers were canned very recently.
The show's transition to a Trump/MAGA platform will be fully evident next season.
Edit: I see you've already whined, right on cue.
One of your bullets refers to Hegseth's "evasive answers to questions about whether he would carry out Trump's order to seize ballots and voting machines during the 2026 midterms." Not so far-fetched then, is it, little buddy?
This is hyperbole or you're trolling, correct? I can't imagine a real human sitting around thinking the way you think.
60 Minutes absolutely shifted left for several years. Would like to see it back to being generally objective but there is no appetite for that these days.
@unclemark How are you doing my man? Still doing the parts gig?
Doing well enough. Being ordinary and nothing special is a full time job. Still lugging parts, but getting slower and slower at it. I'll hang it up one of these days, but so far I'm still showing up every day.
Andy Rooney.
Forgot all about Eyebrows. I think Seinfeld owes his millions to Andy Rooney, the originator of "Did you ever notice...?"
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@bradstevens Let me state it more clearly: Scott Pelley on his worst day presents more objective fact-based news than Joe Rogan could ever hope to do in his wettest dream, so people cheering Pelley's downfall for reasons of subjectivity should probably take a goddamn seat and shut the fuck up.
It's not 2005. Everyone can be a journalist. The market decides who is objective and who is not. And Rogan is kicking their a#%es.
The idea you need some sort of credential to report on something has always been laughable. I shudder to think about what goes on in J-Schools.
And the same people lambasting CBS for being partisan think Rogan is juts the apex of objectivity.
I'll acknowledge that some (too many) Rogan listeners probably view him too objectively. But I'd submit that while Rogan and his types have always had biases in their media, mainstream news coverage has decidedly become more politically charged. There is evidence (research papers, ex-NPR, etc.) that MSM moved left, particularly regarding social issues and their coverage. Is that really a surprising conclusion, though?
Much of that is being driven by cable news and the dynamic that viewers tend to crave and watch more of the same rather than something different from their view. Money matters.
nonsense. If @unclemark says a lesbian centrist who ran the NYT OpEds for years is MAGA, we must believe him.
Can you show me where I've said that? I need to correct it -- if I did.
your own links:
UPDATE: PELLEY FIRED, REFUSES MAGA MAKEOVER...
ACCUSES CBS OF PUSHING 'FALSEHOODS AND BIAS'...
CONFORM OR REBEL...
BARI DOING DON'S DIRTY WORK...
Found this interesting...
Retired CBS newsman Steve Kroft is looking at what’s happening to his former home, 60 Minutes, and he is not happy. Speaking to PBS NewsHour’s Geoff Bennett, Kroft called Bari Weiss’s alterations to the venerable news magazine “disastrous,” and unecessarily so. “This is journalistic interference,” Kroft said. “It makes no business sense whatsoever. It’s the highest rated news program on television, and it has been that way for more than 50 years. The audience was up about 9% last year. Why would you mess with that?”
If Kroft is correct, the Pelley firing doesn't make sense from a business standpoint. Am also surprised the show is doing so well.
I'll acknowledge that some (too many) Rogan listeners probably view him too objectively. But I'd submit that while Rogan and his types have always had biases in their media, mainstream news coverage has decidedly become more politically charged. There is evidence (research papers, ex-NPR, etc.) that MSM moved left, particularly regarding social issues and their coverage. Is that really a surprising conclusion, though?
Much of that is being driven by cable news and the dynamic that viewers tend to crave and watch more of the same rather than something different from their view. Money matters.
I do think there was definitely a time when the MSM was left-leaning, but more and more the pendulum seems to be swinging the other way. MS Now is sort of inconsequential in the cable news ratings - combining Fox News with News Max and other fringe sites probably has them beat. CNN is sort of trending toward right of center these days and a lot of other major news outlets, are owned by right-leaning billionaires. The Sinclair Broadcast Group owns the majority of local affiliates and they're definitely right-leaning.