Integrity; that is what Scott Pelley has! Integrity helped Mr. Pelley to speak the truth! Integrity helped Mr. Pelley to face his bosses. Integrity will help him on his next journey in life!
So many Americans who have wealth and power, have lost their integrity, or they may have never had it to begin with! Take a look at some of our political leaders, or CEO's; many act like spoiled brats, because that is how most of them were raised to be, or too much wealth and power changed them to become spoiled brats! Frump, Musk, frump's cabinet members, all lack integrity, and the lack of respect for others! Just listen to how they speak to those who don't agree with them! They were taught to believe that they can do or say anything, because they have clout-money and power. Unfortunately, that is partly true. However, there are also many wealthy people who hold onto their integrity. They were taught to respect others; no matter their wealth or position, their race, their religion, etc.
Parents, teachers, coaches, religious leaders, anyone who can help to mold a child to be a good, honorable citizen; must teach integrity, and respect for one another, to our children! If we don't, we are failing our children; and as we are seeing in today's history, our country as well!
The answer, my friends, is a coordinated boycott of Paramount Movies, Paramount + and CBS. We need the Ellisons to rue the day they thought they could buy credibility.
Scott Pelley is a good and honest man! Long may he live with his fine reputation!
Scott is better than this bunch and will find the best life has on his merits. Hope he “re-pots” and finds acclaim and reward in many other areas. Scott has too much talent and skill to waste.
There is a version of my essay that begins with history — with Edward R. Murrow and the birth of broadcast journalism as a public trust, with the long American tradition of the press as a check on concentrated power, with the careful institutional architecture that made a program like 60 Minutes not merely a television show but something closer to a civic institution. That essay has been written. It will be written again. It changes nothing.
This one begins somewhere else. It begins with Scott Pelley standing in front of a room full of journalists he has worked alongside for decades and saying, plainly, that what was happening to 60 Minutes was murder. It begins with the fact that he was fired for saying so. And it begins with the question that should be keeping every one of us up at night: what exactly are we going to do about it?
Because if the answer is nothing — if the answer is that we’ll read about it, feel bad about it, maybe share the article, and then open Paramount+ to watch something that evening — then we are not bystanders to this destruction. We are its underwriters.
You were right, Steve, that it is fear driving the Ellisons (and others), to avoid losing accumulated wealth (and other things) to the petty whims of Felon. The thing is, they are going to lose a lot more now that they have decapitated 60 Minutes. Pelley and others can hold their heads high and will come out better in the end. Character counts. Values count.
I think it's GREED for MONEY and the POWER it affords them beneath the fear. MARY Trump's initial book's title says it all: "Too Much and Never Enough". These people have major psychological problems. The rest of us, however, should not have to be made to deal with the results.
Do not be surprised if the entire 60 Minutes team decides to follow Scott out the door, and I don’t mean just the on-air talent, I mean the multiple dozens of people who make the show work. The new season will begin in the fall, creating those shows should be going on now, selling their insipid ads will depend on those new shows. 60 Minutes made a lot of money for CBS, that is going to dry up and not be easily replaced. Network television is a dying breed, it’s not dead yet but it’s dying nevertheless, if you don’t think that’s true just look (if you can stand it) at the ads they are running even on shows that you like, they are insipid almost universally and rarely for anything you would have the remotest interest in buying, “ask your Dr.”. CBS like Paramount is only as good as what they are able to produce, no product = no value, sure they have physical assets which can be sold at fire sale prices, not a good bet. Owners of Hollywood studios have come and gone, only occasionally have they been brilliant, Ellison is like a hedge fund manager who knows nothing about the business he just bought, he’ll run it into the ground and maybe get out ahead of the crash, they should have stuck to selling software and buying land.
He opened up the sewer to allow what has become “ news “ in 2026.
The cesspool of drivel that is called news and information today is astounding and would make the greats like Cronkite, Murrow, Huntley, Brinkly spin in their graves.
Boycott CBS and all of Ellison’s holdings! It’s the only thing these freaks understand 😡 let them worry about where their next paycheck is coming from… watch the advertisers flee their sinking ship!
Our family is definitely boycotting Amazon already. It will take some work to figure out who their advertisers are… I don’t watch CBS anymore. I will boycott them as well.
We can also boycott advertisers' products (and while we're at it, who's still using Amazon?? Kill two birds / one stone" -- support small /medium local businesses instead. Amazon's already put a lot of them out of business and the remaining ones are suffering under tariffs and now the war..)
"There are still people who understand that there are moments when compliance becomes complicity."
I hope some of those who have complied with Trump, knowing how dangerous that compliance was, are beginning to feel ashamed. Certainly, all decent Americans are ashamed of the likes of Rubio, Graham, and Cruz.
Good on Scott Pelley!
Integrity; that is what Scott Pelley has! Integrity helped Mr. Pelley to speak the truth! Integrity helped Mr. Pelley to face his bosses. Integrity will help him on his next journey in life!
So many Americans who have wealth and power, have lost their integrity, or they may have never had it to begin with! Take a look at some of our political leaders, or CEO's; many act like spoiled brats, because that is how most of them were raised to be, or too much wealth and power changed them to become spoiled brats! Frump, Musk, frump's cabinet members, all lack integrity, and the lack of respect for others! Just listen to how they speak to those who don't agree with them! They were taught to believe that they can do or say anything, because they have clout-money and power. Unfortunately, that is partly true. However, there are also many wealthy people who hold onto their integrity. They were taught to respect others; no matter their wealth or position, their race, their religion, etc.
Parents, teachers, coaches, religious leaders, anyone who can help to mold a child to be a good, honorable citizen; must teach integrity, and respect for one another, to our children! If we don't, we are failing our children; and as we are seeing in today's history, our country as well!
The answer, my friends, is a coordinated boycott of Paramount Movies, Paramount + and CBS. We need the Ellisons to rue the day they thought they could buy credibility.
https://gonebut.substack.com/p/the-line?r=1b56qu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Cancelled my Paramount +. Hope others will do the same.
Now, we need to support Scott in his next endeavor.
Along with Steven Colbert!
Ben Meiselas already wrote an invitation to Pelley to hire on with MTN.
Hoping there will be more like Scott Pelley and fewer like his boss.
Yes, good on Scott Pelley!
“ In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act “
----Orwell
It takes a true set of balls, or ovaries to stand up and say eff you. I’m not doing that. That’s a rubicon I will not cross.
I have the hope that Mr. Pelley and his crew end up here on substack. I will subscribe / follow in a nanosecond.
They actually made him more visible and important. And they won’t see their demise coming.
Scott Pelley is a good and honest man! Long may he live with his fine reputation!
Scott is better than this bunch and will find the best life has on his merits. Hope he “re-pots” and finds acclaim and reward in many other areas. Scott has too much talent and skill to waste.
https://gonebut.substack.com/p/the-line?r=1b56qu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
There is a version of my essay that begins with history — with Edward R. Murrow and the birth of broadcast journalism as a public trust, with the long American tradition of the press as a check on concentrated power, with the careful institutional architecture that made a program like 60 Minutes not merely a television show but something closer to a civic institution. That essay has been written. It will be written again. It changes nothing.
This one begins somewhere else. It begins with Scott Pelley standing in front of a room full of journalists he has worked alongside for decades and saying, plainly, that what was happening to 60 Minutes was murder. It begins with the fact that he was fired for saying so. And it begins with the question that should be keeping every one of us up at night: what exactly are we going to do about it?
Because if the answer is nothing — if the answer is that we’ll read about it, feel bad about it, maybe share the article, and then open Paramount+ to watch something that evening — then we are not bystanders to this destruction. We are its underwriters.
You were right, Steve, that it is fear driving the Ellisons (and others), to avoid losing accumulated wealth (and other things) to the petty whims of Felon. The thing is, they are going to lose a lot more now that they have decapitated 60 Minutes. Pelley and others can hold their heads high and will come out better in the end. Character counts. Values count.
I think it's GREED for MONEY and the POWER it affords them beneath the fear. MARY Trump's initial book's title says it all: "Too Much and Never Enough". These people have major psychological problems. The rest of us, however, should not have to be made to deal with the results.
Today’s CBS is a monument to Reaganism, neoliberalism, unregulated capitalism. Anything that fails to serve wealth must be destroyed.
Do not be surprised if the entire 60 Minutes team decides to follow Scott out the door, and I don’t mean just the on-air talent, I mean the multiple dozens of people who make the show work. The new season will begin in the fall, creating those shows should be going on now, selling their insipid ads will depend on those new shows. 60 Minutes made a lot of money for CBS, that is going to dry up and not be easily replaced. Network television is a dying breed, it’s not dead yet but it’s dying nevertheless, if you don’t think that’s true just look (if you can stand it) at the ads they are running even on shows that you like, they are insipid almost universally and rarely for anything you would have the remotest interest in buying, “ask your Dr.”. CBS like Paramount is only as good as what they are able to produce, no product = no value, sure they have physical assets which can be sold at fire sale prices, not a good bet. Owners of Hollywood studios have come and gone, only occasionally have they been brilliant, Ellison is like a hedge fund manager who knows nothing about the business he just bought, he’ll run it into the ground and maybe get out ahead of the crash, they should have stuck to selling software and buying land.
Miss me yet?*
* Media monopoly laws. Reversed during the Reagan Admin.
Reagan also dropped the "Fairness Doctrine" and I believe that's one of the things that created the environment for Rush Limbaugh and Faux News
Agreed.
He opened up the sewer to allow what has become “ news “ in 2026.
The cesspool of drivel that is called news and information today is astounding and would make the greats like Cronkite, Murrow, Huntley, Brinkly spin in their graves.
The sacred and the profane: the people Trump attacks, and the people he nominates.
Boycott CBS and all of Ellison’s holdings! It’s the only thing these freaks understand 😡 let them worry about where their next paycheck is coming from… watch the advertisers flee their sinking ship!
Our family is definitely boycotting Amazon already. It will take some work to figure out who their advertisers are… I don’t watch CBS anymore. I will boycott them as well.
We can also boycott advertisers' products (and while we're at it, who's still using Amazon?? Kill two birds / one stone" -- support small /medium local businesses instead. Amazon's already put a lot of them out of business and the remaining ones are suffering under tariffs and now the war..)
"There are still people who understand that there are moments when compliance becomes complicity."
I hope some of those who have complied with Trump, knowing how dangerous that compliance was, are beginning to feel ashamed. Certainly, all decent Americans are ashamed of the likes of Rubio, Graham, and Cruz.