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Fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley says CBS told him to inject ‘falsehoods’ into reporting
(www.theguardian.com)
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Good on him for having a backbone. Hopefully he lands in something that ends up taking the majority of the viewership. Maybe a new show called "65 minutes" where the last 5 minutes of every show it dedicated to torching the latest conservative hypocrisy.
I would love a 60 Minutes alternative. I don’t think it’s safe to watch it anymore. But I miss it from before all this nonsense.
But I’m not sure what network would it go on? Comedy Central? But that’s paramount, which is… cbs. Can I still trust the daily show even?
Maybe they could put it on abc. At the very least abc refused to fire Kimmel at trumps whim, because a bunch of fans protested by boycotting Disney+ and the network listened. I mean, that’s the best we can do now? I guess?
61 minutes?
While being part of a network would help in the immediate I feel like the best they could do in the long term is start doing it independently. One of the biggest issues we have right now is how many sources of information are the old corrupted or corrupting media giants, if a bunch of the old guard reporters and journalists broke away and did their own thing that would help break the current status quo.
Would be mice. How will they afford to pay themselves though?
Raid the cheese factory?
Such a thing would need to be somewhere other than the OTA broadcast networks because those are subject to the FCC and Brendan Carr and would never see an end to the attempts to silence them.
Independent Media on YouTube, Substack, etc. is growing, but you have to curate carefully, and keep your Critical Thinking Skills on high alert at all times. They spew out lot of propaganda, too. Nothing like the Conservative Propaganda Machine, but they're working on it.
Good point. But any mainstream streaming platform (where it would actually get views) like Netflix, Apple TV, etc. it would then be subject to the control of the tech bros, who are also sucking trumps balls.