POMPOSITY OVERLOAD: Here Are the Big Moments From Pelley’s NYT Sitdown
Apparently, the bravest, most important man in America, fired CBS journalist Scott Pelley, sat down for an interview with New York Times podcast host Lulu Garcia-Navarro that aired Sunday (and taped Friday). It was a tour de force in rancorous arrogance and legendary levels of main character syndrome as he denied believing his semi-public berating of 60 Minutes boss Nick…
Arrogance: Remaining ‘60 Minutes’ Journos Trash Bosses...But Will Stay
The mystery of whether the three remaining 60 Minutes correspondents – Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim – would remain at the CBS newsmagazine was solved Friday when they revealed in a joint memo displaying their aircraft carrier-sized egos that they would stay and attempt to work with CBS News editor-in-chief and new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton.…
Ex-NBC Boss Rips Weiss: 'What the Hell Is Going on with This Lady?'
Appearing as a guest late Wednesday on MS NOW's The 11th Hour, former NBC News chairman Andy Lack slammed CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss for her efforts to reform the 60 Minutes show, including the recent firing of Scott Pelley, displaying an almost sexist attitude toward Weiss as he imagined how 60 Minutes founder Don Hewitt might have responded.
Column: When Cowardly Journalists Abuse Anonymous Sourcing
Journalists love to proclaim that they bring transparency to democracy, but it’s far too often the exact opposite. They try to run our democracy by exploiting anonymous sources. So when Trump is president, “senior administration officials” say “he’s coming seriously unglued.” When Biden was president, “senior administration officials” say “he’s quite lucid in private meetings.” Journalists use…
PBS, Kroft Weep for ‘60 Minutes,’ Firing of Leftists Pelley, Alfonsi
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour brought on former veteran CBS 60 Minutes reporter Steve Kroft — the man behind a series of Obama interviews so embarrassing the MRC penned a Special Report about them — to defend the media’s self-anointed golden hour, the long-time Sunday newsmagazine which has suffered ideologically motivated convulsions and now firings of prominent journalists,…
Tapper Spills 14 Mins Fretting Pelley Axing, Cues Up MacFarlane, Moran
CNN’s The Lead host Jake Tapper leaned on his sanctimonious reputation late Wednesday afternoon as he devoted the first 14 minutes to huffing about CBS News firing longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley for his petulant reenactment of Pickett’s Charge, thinking he could eviscerate his bosses and intimidate them in his “house.” For the second of three segments, Tapper…
CBS Evening News Gives Scott Pelley a Better Sendoff Than He Deserved
How many people can walk into their workplace, defecate on the new management, insult their new direct supervisor, and get immediately fired for cause right before getting a glowing sendoff on the way out? Well, there’s Scott Pelley, apparently, given the sendoff he just got from the CBS Evening News.
BREAKING: Scott Pelley FIRED From CBS News After ‘60 Minutes’ Crashout
Yesterday, Scott Pelley lectured his new 60 Minutes boss on how the network was “MURDERING” the Elitist Media’s most hallowed news magazine. In the process, he ended up committing career seppuku and has just been shown the door by CBS News.
Darcy Spirals, Treats Weiss’s ’60 Minutes’ Changes Like Someone Died
Status founder, liberal media hall monitor, and virulent conservative hater Oliver Darcy took to his newsletter site Thursday night to drop over 1,600 words melting down over CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s remake of 60 Minutes by hiring author, filmmaker, and former New York Times columnist Nick Bilton as its new executive producer and jettisoning Tanya Simon, Sharyn…
Eye Roll: Alfonsi Bounced from ’60 Minutes,’ Flaunts God Complex Ego
The New York Times made official Wednesday what Puck’s Dylan Byers first reported back on April 24: CECOT-obsessed Sharyn Alfonsi is out at CBS’s 60 Minutes. And, in an interview with the vi rulently anti-Bari Weiss paper (which used to employ her before they ran her out of town), Alfosni donned a holier-than-thou attitude that embodies the stomach-churning arrogance of…
Farcical Darcy Thinks He’s Cool By Again Beating Up on CBS’s Dokoupil
While Fox News has long been an almost singular focus of the so-called media reporting class, conservative stalker and Status founder Oliver Darcy seems to have decided in recent months to shift his weight to throwing daily Mean Girls hissy fits over CBS News and the existence of editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and Tony Dokoupil as CBS Evening News anchor. That was yet again on display…
Petty CBS Staff Leak to Darcy on Garrett, Not Stahl, Interviewing Bibi
Status founder Oliver Darcy took to his newsletter Monday night with a predictable target in CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss with a predictable set of wingmen (and women) in anonymous sources inside the network. The topic? They threw a collective hissy fit over chief Washington correspondent and longtime political journalist Major Garrett scoring the 60 Minutes interview with…
CJR Uses Leaks, Smears to Attack Dokoupil for Supporting All Americans
Columbia Journalism Review provided its contribution Tuesday to the seemingly never-ending liberal, elite media pile-on against CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil. This time, it focused on Dokoupil with a nearly 4,000-word story filled with anonymous, petty smears, lame attempts at media analysis, and a general disgust with the…
Deranged: Darcy Seems Committed to Seeing CBS’s Dokoupil, Weiss Fail
Status founder and former CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy took to his newsletter site Tuesday night for a psychotic tut-tutting over the supposed grave of CBS News under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, claiming Weiss’s “catastrophic,” “turbulent” tenure’s “five-alarm fire” has “destroyed” the “trust” “smart” viewers have in the brand in…
