This needs no comment from me. Just read it for yourself. Know also that this travesty is not unique, it is happening at every broadcaster. Then decide what you will do.
JUST IN: Scott Pelley BREAKS SILENCE after firing from 60 Minutes. Here is his statement in full:
“There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58th season, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
The waste is heartbreaking.
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.
For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
Scott Pelley”
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Update 6-4-2026: Here I add my observations of exactly how control
of the media is being imposed. Look at
who owns the big networks who run evening news programs on broadcast
television. ABC is owned by Disney. CBS is owned by Paramount. NBC is owned by Comcast which also owns
Universal.
Trump threatens expensive-to-defend lawsuits from himself or
his weaponized DOJ, or threatens their
broadcast licenses with his weaponized FCC.
And he threatens approval of their planned mergers and acquisitions with
his weaponized SEC. These is all big money-losing
threats. So, to avoid losing lots of money, these corporate masters exert intense pressure
upon the news organizations they own to self-censor, meaning only say things that Trump will
like. That is the antithesis of
journalism! They only care about the
money!
CBS is currently in turmoil over Colbert and now Pelley. ABC went through this over Kimmel, but the threat of boycotts at Disney theme
parks apparently outweighed Trump’s threats,
at least so far. NBC has not yet
had its turn in the hot seat. PBS
did, and lost its federal funding, which hurt them badly, but did not close them down (which is what
Trump really wanted).
That’s exactly how it is done to control all public
information in most dictatorships!
Fox News gets no such threats, because it has favored right-wing propaganda
since its founding by Rupert Murdoch. Who
said in public that Fox News was not about news, but about entertainment for the political right
and far-right!
Trump pretty much watches only Fox News in the evenings, then stays up all night tweeting rabid
nonsense inspired by them. Why is anyone
surprised that he falls asleep on the job,
at his age? Which is only 3 years
younger than Biden!
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