The News About The News

As you've probably heard, veteran CBS reporter Scott Pelley is no longer reporting for CBS and 60 Minutes. He was fired because — well, you can read the statements and backstory here and many other places online. The nicest way to put this seems to be that the old 60 Minutes never cared if its reporting displeased people in power and the new one does. Pelley claims the new management at CBS news ordered him to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his reporting.

You can kinda guess how I feel about this. There's a lot of this kind of thing going on now and it sure smells like a lot of wealthy, pro-Trump people foresee that the way the news is going now, they more-than-ever need to find ways to control it.