When '60 Minutes' Caved, That Told Trump Everything He Needed to Know

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Susan J. Demas

Here’s the thing about institutions that fold to authoritarianism: those who stay insist they’re doing so to preserve something of grave societal significance. And then you watch these institutions die anyway.

Scott Pelley was fired from 60 Minutes for saying, out loud, what everyone already knew: Bari Weiss is killing CBS’s journalistic integrity. He confirmed that she’s injecting right-wing politics into the broadcast and censoring solid investigative reporting. He accused Weiss of “murdering” the show during a contentious staff meeting and was fired the next day. That’s it. That was his offense. He told the truth about what was happening to his own show, and Paramount and CBS fired him for it.

I’ve been in journalism for a quarter-century. I’ve watched plenty of ethical failures in corporate, partisan, and nonprofit newsrooms. But there’s a specific kind of failure that happens when someone gets fired for telling the truth, and it’s not really about that person at all. It’s an indictment of the institution. Every time. No exceptions.

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This is the bet. This is the bet Donald Trump and MAGA make over and over again, and it keeps paying off. Institutions are weaker than you think. People’s backbones — their morality — are weaker than you think. And so things that used to be unthinkable become merely things that happened.

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/when-60-minutes-caved-that-told-trump

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