Veteran 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley reported on Donald Trump’s efforts to strong-arm some of the country’s top law firms into doing his bidding on Sunday night’s episode of the embattled CBS newsmagazine.
Pelley’s segment pulled no punches in describing Trump’s efforts and reminding viewers that Trump is the “first felon” ever to sit in the Oval Office.
Make no mistake, the only reason we’re seeing this in the media now is because big business is getting hit. Mostly a shot in the foot with tariffs but let’s keep those boycotts up!
This is what every journalist in America needs to be doing right now.
I would argue it’s what every journalist in America should have been doing 8 FUCKING YEARS AGO, but no, they helped create this monster so they could report on it. They are a human/media centipede crossed with an Ouroboros eating it’s own shit. Support independent media, not partisan sources in either direction, they’re ALL compromised by capital.
OK, but this is also what every journalist needs to be doing right now.
It’s insane, because it’s not some sassy or hyperbolic report. It’s perfectly measured and…logical. A well made report.
I love this. It’s kind of a rule of the internet that if you tell it to stop doing something it’ll just make everyone more determined. I want to see every group that interacts with the administration be so resolute to give them shit.
It’s called the Streisand effect
The almighty power of spite.
They hurt TRUMPS FEELINGS? DEPORT THEM!
-Fuck Your Feelings Conservatives!
This is real journalism, which has become increasingly rare these days. Everything else is just PR.
I hate 60 minutes but watched that on YouTube. Anything to piss on trumps shallow ego.
Glad legacy media still has a few balls left
Trump is the biggest piece of shit America has ever produced.
Richard Nixon has entered the chat
Nixon didn’t do shit compared to Donald
Good on Pelley.
With any luck this gives the fat orange duck a fatal heart attack.
That pesky first amendment comes back to bite again!
As I always say, that’ll teach’m.
Anyone have a link to th video?
Ah, so more compromised media sources creating hype and WWE theater spectacle out of a crisis they helped create.
I am done with the “nightly news segment” Uroboros of creating massive problems then reporting on the massive problems they made.
edit: keep whinging, this is just another “cut to YOUR fighter” segment that makes everything think “whoohoo we’re winning!” and feeds this cycle of thinking someone is in control, that there’s an actual “back and forth.” There is no “back and forth.” There is nobody coming. There is nobody in charge. This is all so much worse than even the best media reporting is letting on.
Shut the fuck up with that.
Networks and even shows aren’t a giant monolith.
This is a good, ballsy move by actual journalists that is going to upset a lot of people and get a lot of pushbavk, even from within.
This should be getting acclaim, not…whatever lazy defeatest response this is.
You keep replying to me like it’s a campaign. If you like 60 minutes, just watch it.
I am not watching it because they are complicit and I don’t trust them. Nobody should trust media, particularly network media.
Ah so more defeatist thinking then? Good job.
If moving to independent media or at least better sources like Ruiters, AP or even Ground or just triangulating multiple sources so you can get a better grasp of the truth before CBS helps create a situation they make money from while pretending to be “news” is considered “Defeatist” then yes, I am defeated and you should be too.
