Oh No! Scott Pelley May Lead Parade of Communists Out the Doors of CBS to Start a New Communist "News" Organization

They're going to form a Super Socialist Substack, Dylan Byers warns us.

Newsmax:

The firing of "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley could be just the tip of the iceberg at the venerable news magazine.

...

Dylan Byers, a media reporter at Puck, a digital news company, warned more departures could be coming during an appearance on MS NOW.

Along with Pelley, correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega were recently fired and correspondent Anderson Cooper departed.

"No one has left the building at '60 Minutes' without some version of what Scott did, some sort of criticism toward the new management, and indeed the new ownership about the direction of the show," Byers said.

"It is very difficult to see how this new leadership is able to usher '60 Minutes' as it has existed in the past into the future," Byers added. "We only have three remaining correspondents there. I know that they currently are deliberating over what they are going to do.

"It's very possible that we're going to arrive at a moment here in a matter of weeks, if not days, where there is no existing talent left at '60 Minutes' and they are going to have to build this back up from scratch."

Meanwhile, three other leftwing propagandists in danger of being fired -- Leslie "we won't bother to verify the Hunter Biden Laptop, that's your job" Stahl, Bill Whitaker (who "interviewed" Kamala Harris in that sliced-and-diced advertisement that got CBS sued) and Jon Wertheim -- say that they're going to stay at 60 Minutes and not quit in solidarity because they're seriously overpaid and could not get work anywhere else.

Oh that's the real reason, not the admitted one. The fake reason they give is that they have to stay and fight the corrupt "leadership" from the inside.

Note that they wrote an initial draft announcing they were staying on, which attacked the "leadership" without naming names. That's because Weiss and Bilton have reaffirmed the basic rule that direct insubordination is, was, and always will be a fireable offense.

So they took the coward's way out and grumbled about unnamed parties in "leadership."

But they were even more cowardly than that, because they tore up that "initial" draft and just... leaked it to political ally Dylan Byers.

Dylan Byers
@DylanByers

NEW: The initial draft of the Stahl-Whitaker-Wertheim letter read like a full-throated rejection of CBS leadership, accusing their "overlords" of using "chilling" and "callous" tactics--all of it omitted from final memo. It also did not include any language about Nick Bilton...

Such heroes!

"60 Minutes" correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim said Friday that they planned to stay on at the newsmagazine, capping days of turmoil for the show.

"We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay," the three wrote in a memo to their colleagues at the program, before adding: "We don't want to see '60 Minutes' die."

60 Minutes would die without them, you guys.

The graveyards are filled with indispensable men. There's room for three or four more.

They wrote that they were still "deeply upset by the firings" of executive producer Tanya Simon and high-ranking producer Draggan Mihailovich, whom they called "strong leaders who everyone respected." Their colleague Scott Pelley was fired earlier this week after he challenged the newsmagazine's new executive producer over the recent firings.

The longtime correspondents said that "as far as we can tell," those leaders were fired because "they fought for our '60 Minutes' values and stood up to protect our independence and integrity."

"Newsrooms are not supposed to be run like dictatorships," they added in the memo, obtained by NBC News. "Collaboration and argument are the way we have always worked at 60."

Fuck you.

Weiss and Bilton should fire them for leaking the insubordinate initial draft, and for accusing them of running 60 Minutes like "a dictatorship" in the cowardly re-write they did wind up publishing.

Below: Pelley had on moms opposed to pornographic books in children's school libraries. The women read from the books and quoted the words "dildo" and "vagina" and "rape."

CBS muted the words so that no one could hear what was actually in the books.

This sissy idiot is bragging that "my team" -- my little clique of communist Mean Girls -- drove Bari Weiss out of the New York Times... and set her on the path to becoming a self-made media mogul and editor in chief of all of CBS "News."

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:32 PM

| Access Comments