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Scott Pelley Fired from CBS News After “60 Minutes” Crashout

The media hall monitors will likely go into a Chernobyl-level meltdown and go on a multi-day rampage about how the Pelley firing is but the latest attack on free speech. The “for-cause” mid-contract firing certainly anticipates a lawsuit which will draw additional coverage and provide Pelley with a Resistance™ Supernova exit. Likely to Substack.

The Overweening Pomposity of the Old Guard at CBS News

Reporters like Sharon Alfonsi insist that they’re the hard-hitters, and never the soft-ballers. They’re the courageous independents who hold people accountable, and never the shoe-polishing partisans who allow their political allies to uncork ridiculous spins without challenge. They are lying to themselves, and to us.

Alfonsi Bounced from “60 Minutes,” Touts God Complex, Arrogance to NYT

The NY Times made official Wednesday: CECOT-obsessed Sharyn Alfonsi is out at CBS’s 60 Minutes. In an interview with the virulently anti-Bari Weiss paper, Alfonsi donned a holier-than-thou attitude that embodies the stomach-churning arrogance of liberal, elite journalists in fearing the “chilling message” the presence of a hands-on editor-in-chief sends.

NBC Offers Slobbering Profile of Obama

NBC’s Today debased itself on Wednesday by sending former First Daughter and fourth-hour co-host Jenna Bush Hager to interview former President Barack Obama for a syrupy sit-down about the opening of his Obama Presidential Center next month.

The Networks Fall Silent on the Indictment of the SPLC

The Southern Poverty Law Center has long been utilized by the Elitist Media as a go-to when seeking to silence, shun or otherwise castigate conservatives by smearing them as “hate groups.” Perhaps this explains their reluctance to cover the Department of Justice’s indictment of the SPLC on multiple fraud charges.

 

Jim Acosta Whines Trump Is “Winning” His War on the Press

Appearing on the “Power Lines” podcast with his fellow ardent leftists Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino, Acosta glumly proclaimed “I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out that Donald Trump is winning in his, you know, quest to reshape the media in this country that he’s cracked the code on how to hurt the press in the U.S.”