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<\/a><\/p>\nThe left-wing and mainstream media narrative today is that \u201c60 Minutes\u201d was a magical place filled with objective journalism. Then right-wing fire-breather Bari Weiss and her evil Zionist paymasters arrived, and now they’re firing stalwarts like old-style journalist Scott Pelley from \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d How dare they touch this bastion of journalistic integrity?<\/span><\/p>\nFalse. \u201c60 Minutes\u201d was <\/span>never<\/span><\/i> objective. It was always a Left-wing outlet. <\/span>That’s <\/span><\/i>the reason why the Left is angry that changes are being made.<\/span><\/p>\nThey saw this as their institutional preserve and now that preserve has been violated. Like a naturally beautiful piece of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge being touched by human hands, it <\/span>must not be<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\nThey’ve been promoting the notion that Bari Weiss is some sort of flaming Right-winger. That’s crazy. I’m friends with Bari; she is not Right-wing on a huge number of issues. She is pro-LGBT, obviously. She is pro-choice, obviously. She used to describe herself as a center-left person. If you went back about 25 years, she’d be a moderate Democrat.<\/span><\/p>\nSo what is the actual story here?<\/span><\/p>\nThe key story here is the Democrats are losing control of a lot of their key institutions. If there’s any overarching sort of theme to the Trump era, it is that Democrats thought they had undeniable control of virtually every key institution in American life and now, one by one, that’s coming apart for them.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201c60 Minutes\u201d was considered the tip of the spear in the objective journalism universe.<\/span><\/p>\nThose of us who’ve been watching mainstream legacy media for a long time recognize that the so-called objective media is usually anything but objective; usually it is just a Left-leaning group of people who pretend to be objective.<\/span><\/p>\nScott Pelley was fired. The reason he was fired is that there were changes made over at \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d Nick Bilton, a tech journalist and filmmaker, was appointed to shake up \u201c60 Minutes\u201d because the ratings were poor and there were problems with journalistic integrity.<\/span><\/p>\nBilton was publicly accosted by Scott Pelley at a meeting where he introduced himself to the staff. This was after CBS had fired the previous executive producer, her deputy, and a couple of the <\/span>show’s correspondents.<\/span><\/p>\nWith absolute self-centered arrogance, Pelley called it Black Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\nThat’s true for an enormous number of journalists and pseudo-journalists in the online space. They are simply narcissists; the only thing they regret about the camera is that it is not a mirror.<\/span><\/p>\nBilton said Bari loves the institution, loves \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nPelley got up in full self-righteous mode, knowing, of course, that he was trying to get himself fired. Let’s be clear: that’s what he wanted. He wanted to be a martyr. If you’re going to have your airtime reduced, it\u2019s better to be a martyr.<\/span><\/p>\nIf you’re Colin Kaepernick and you’re about to get benched, much better that you go out protesting the national anthem.<\/span><\/p>\nSo Pelley decided this was his moment of bravery and resistance.\u00a0<\/span>(Maybe they’ll make a movie about him.)<\/span><\/p>\nHe said Bari was murdering \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d that she did not love this place, that she was trying to kill it; that she had no qualifications for her job.<\/span><\/p>\nIt is incredible to me when people talk about qualifications in the journalistic world. The idea that journalism is a job for which you require a license or a qualification is ridiculous. It ain\u2019t like being a heart surgeon.<\/span><\/p>\nBari Weiss was an editor at the New York Times before she started The Free Press, one of the most successful independent journalistic endeavors in America. But she has no qualifications?<\/span><\/p>\nYet Scott Pelley, who reads stuff from a teleprompter on camera, says she has no qualifications for her job.<\/span><\/p>\nBilton wrote a letter that stated:<\/span><\/p>\n\nI meant what I said in my letter last week to the 60 Minutes team: joining 60 Minutes is the honor of my career and I am grateful to be working alongside the people who have contributed to the most important television journalism brand this country has ever produced. While I’m new to 60 Minutes, I’ve devoted my career to investigative journalism and storytelling. I started this job excited to collaborate and to benefit from the wisdom and experience of the 60 Minutes veterans, with you among them. For that reason, one of the first things I did in my new role was call you to talk and invite you to dinner.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nIt is a profound disappointment that you rejected that overture and chose ambush instead. Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt. I welcome a diversity of viewpoints and respectful debate among the team, but this was nothing of the sort. Yesterday’s performative display of hostility enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress. I am here to deliver first-in-class news programming, not to make headlines about newsroom drama.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nI am eager to work alongside those who share this goal. Despite yesterday’s misconduct, I had hoped that in sitting down with you today we could find a path forward together. You made clear that you are not interested in such a path.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nYour antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you. I therefore write on behalf of CBS News, Inc. (“CBS”) to inform you that your employment with CBS is terminated for cause effective immediately. Enclosed is your formal termination letter.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nA great letter.<\/span><\/p>\nApplause for Nick Bilton. This alone means that his tenure has been worth it. This is how you should treat insubordination.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201c60 Minutes\u201d pretends that it is an openly objective institution. The notion that \u201c60 Minutes\u201d was a bastion of objective journalism is not true.<\/span><\/p>\nIt\u2019s another institution that is finally being remade to veer toward objectivity.<\/span><\/p>\nAnd the Left is panicking.<\/span><\/p>\n
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