60 Minutes adds Ross Douthat; Junger, Gianna Toboni and Trevor Phillips
You can see why Ross Douthat would want to leave the New York Times to go work for a network that bases stories on lies printed in the New York Post that they then have to retract.
D10The NYT Opinion page got 100% better. Addition by subtraction.
arkhilokhos.bsky.social2I like to think of the job offer from CBS as empirical proof that Douthat was objectively the worst person at the NYT.
Tia Goode 🇺🇸🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦 💥Standing with Major Watson!! 💥🇺🇸1So afraid of Mayor Mamdani, they are drowning in..
gnarlygale.bsky.social1there’s no such thing as retracting a lie in the right-wing sphere, once something enters their hermetically sealed bubble it instantly becomes infallible gospel, so cbs needs to be sued for a massive amount of money, so they will think twice about spreading misinformation in the future
RobotSausage1Yet another "we have proof. It'son my desk." Can we see it? "No." See what happens when a ritualistically (is that a word?) dishonest president is in the White House? It gives the go ahead for everyone who follows him to also be dishonest.
Pestilence1How will you historians remember these worthless piles of media rubbish?
When CBS hired Morley Safer to 60 minutes, he was a few years younger than ross douthat, but had already covered 9 wars, including Vietnam, where he’d been shot down in combat, broke the infamous village torching story, & got an Emmy for the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. That’s a journalist.
Ned Pyle28The man didn’t need guns, look at those arms, awoogaaah
Tabbyette11215I remember as a kid thinking he was this bookish looking old guy and then in college we had an assignment reading about various journalists and I discovered what a badass reporter he was and how we as Americans owe so much to his journalism especially his coverage of Vietnam.
Fasten your seat belts...6Ross writes sad opinions from his doughboy hutch, but he will always be remembered for calling Reese Witherspoon "chunky" in his takedown of a college student who allegedly came on to him. www.wonkette.com/p/ross-douth...
Matt(hew)4Sure, but Ross has been in the trenches during the Great Culture Wars. Doing God's work, obv.
Leslie 🐙4My disdain for Ross Douthat runs thick.
KUNA4that's what a real journalist looks like, not some dude who's been to a war zone in a think tank
Not only am I told that CBS News staffers are alarmed by Ross Douthat being appointed as a "60 Minutes" correspondent, but industry veterans are aghast. "The idea that Ross can be a ‘60’ correspondent is a joke," one TV exec told me. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
Grizzled Shopkeep12Well the idea that weird doofus with no ideas and bizarre sexual hang-ups could basically be a tenured editorial writer for what's now the biggest paper in America is also a joke, one reproduced for us hundreds if not thousands of times.
Ayo Denali9I recommend everyone just not watch it. Let it turn to shit like everything else they touch.
Lonnietoft3When the plan is to destroy a reputable news outlet to please the dictator, then bringing in the clown car team of Weiss and Douthat makes perfect sense.
Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems3Are these ppl not aware that CBS has become a Right Wing propaganda outlet & thus 60 Minutes has become a propaganda program? He fits the bill.
kristinekenyon.bsky.social2Anderson Cooper is so glad he Irish goodbye’d already lol
The idea that he could be a NYT columnist is a joke too, but that didn’t stop nobody
Alex Cranz14This is a DEEPLY offensive slate and like nearly everything happening at CBS News feels way too similar to what happened to Gawker Media. Just the worst people you know trying to manage a company with zero understanding or real desire to do good. Just swinging egos around and breaking things.
Flying Mezerkis4Yes. But it’s a very very good one.
Per sources at CBS, Nick Bilton just sent out an email confirming the new correspondents at 60 Minutes. Besides Ross Douthat, he's announced Norah O'Donnell, Sebastian Junger Gianna Toboni and Trevor Phillips will have roles on the show.
milominder43If it's of any use, Trevor Phillips is just about least inquisitive, impressive, rigorous journalist you could possibly imagine. Perfect for Bari Weiss.
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)37neither Trevor Phillips and Ross Douthat are news reporters. they are conservative opinion writers/ talking heads. that is a big shift for 60 minutes which has traditionally relied on experienced journalists to report complex stories. These two are not that.
SheiSho33The funniest thing is that Republicans don't watch this crap. The intellectual conservative is a dead animal. It's Fox or nothing. Sad times at CBS, but also hilarious to watch them just literally dig their own grave.
rslott.bsky.social31lol who would watch this? MAGAs don’t watch 60 minutes. Normal people would be repelled by this new show.
Justin Baragona30Ross Douthat and Norah O'Donnell will be full-time correspondents, per the email that I just received. Sebastian Junger, Gianna Toboni and Trevor Phillips will be contributors to 60 Minutes. Toboni, who is joining from CNN, will also be a CBS national correspondent.
notatrillionaire.bsky.social15The end of 60 minutes. It was a great run. Now it’s just a cbs trump sycophant show.
Rex Huppke12660 Minutes? More like 60 Seconds Before You Change Channels, amirite?!? (I charge extra for quality posts like this.)
Justin Baragona42"Ross is one of the preeminent public intellectuals in America today, a thinker of uncommon rigor and a journalist of deep empathy," executive producer Nick Bilton writes about Douthat becoming a 60 Minutes correspondent. "Ross will bring this big and ranging curiosity to our air."
jesse19Jesus Christ, just end the show now
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈13haha trevor philips is a vile bigot.
Wonkish10Ugh, sorry Americans, if you don't know who Trevor Phillips is yet, well, let's just say it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that Bari Weiss hired a nasty British guy who was previously suspended from the Labour party for Islamophobia and is of course a transphobic bigot too.
Steven Santos7This is not 60 Minutes. This is a clown car.
Sean7This simply can't be real. Propaganda doesnt work if no one is watching. 60 Minutes is done. Amazing how MAGA kills everything it touches.
Christian Rincon7Norah O'Donnell have some fucking dignity
Moot Dengrich ☠️🎢5In this house we respect only one Trevor Phillips
William Easley4It seems like his role is to be more on air talent than running the show itself bsky.app/profile/just...
"I'm Russ Douthat...I'm Mike Lindell...I'm Aleksandr Dugin...I'm Conor McGregor...and I'm Baron Trump. Welcome to 60 Minutes."
David Rothkopf30Yes, folks, with one exception, satire.
manleypeg.bsky.social2Tells you all you need to know about Norah O’Donnal…
ElizaD 🐈🎈🔹️2What a "stellar" (unwatchable) lineup. Fantastic... enjoy watching those ratings tank.
coastal resistance 🇺🇦1No thanks! I’d rather scrub toilets.
Jeffrey Bane1The word correspondents doing a lot of work.
I’d assumed that Douthat was being hired as an Andy Rooney-style commentator at the end of the show. But they have him listed as a “correspondent,” which is unusual for someone who is not exactly known as a reporter, especially an investigative one.
uosdwis r dewoh19Are we sure Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton know what a correspondent does?
Eli Friedmann 12We can look forward to "investigations" of why America must become a catholic theocracy in order to thrive.
Dan Thiell7You presume that Bari Weiss knows the difference between a reporter and a commentator.
withinreasonvmd.bsky.social4Especially accompanied by the sad-sack photo of Ross, I honestly assumed that this was an Onion spoof at first glance.
Jeremy Chao4Will be interesting to see how he reacts to actual factchecking, or if 60 Minutes just decides to stop doing that now.
The Horrified Onlooker3"Not exactly known as a reporter" in the same sense that I am "not exactly known for being married to Zendaya"
On the remote chance that anyone reading this far doesn't know who and what Douthat is, here's a rundown I did in 2009 when he joined the New York Times www.villagevoice.com/ross-douthat...
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow16damn I miss those old Voice days Roy
janeg-b.bsky.social2Glad I didn’t have a mouthful of tea - the “in his experience, women have trouble part.” The kind of guy that would cause you to go to the bathroom and finish by yourself.
petergoldstein.bsky.social2In retrospect, you were much too kind.
