Scott Pelley recapped the Cabinet picks of President-elect Donald Trump in the “60 Minutes” opening Sunday, enraging MAGA supporters despite the segment’s recitation of facts. (Watch the video below.)
The summary “is exactly why no one respects the legacy media anymore,” one person complained on X, formerly Twitter.
“Pure Democratic propaganda,” griped another.
Pelley, a correspondent, began by noting “some nominees appear to have no compelling qualifications other than loyalty to Trump.”
He pointed out defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s lack of government experience and recent gig as a Fox News morning host; the investigation into attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz’s alleged sex with a minor; and the vaccine skepticism of health and human services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“It’s up to the new Republican majority in the Senate to decide whether these nominees are equipped to represent the American people,” Pelley concluded.
Why are we accepting reporting on tweets as a journalism?
Yeah MAGA reacted to the 60 minutes, but so what? One can find similar reactions on any topic, there’s nothing new that we learn by reading this. It just manufacturers outrage on the other side.
Twitter is the official mouthpiece of the trump administration though.
For now. It will be state sponsored media shortly
Seems to be the mouthpiece of anyone trying to argue anything nowadays. you can always find a tweet supporting any argument you wanna make.
That’s the whole point: Bread & Circuses, Part Duh©
Right. Cherry-picking kool-aid enthusiasts spreading their knee-jerk reaction on social media isn’t journalism. These people are likely not valid representatives of public MAGA opinion, to say the least.
The anti-mainstream media comment in particular turns this whole post so many levels of irony that it’s actually challenging to unpack it in a succinct way.
Huffington Post is has been clickbait trash for a while now.
They barely reacted. These maga types aren’t going to watch some video critical of their beliefs which are more akin to religious than political these days
Then stop upvoting this stuff! During election time every damn article upvoted here was about i.) horse race reporting or ii.) Trump outrage. We have to stop clicking these links and sharing the articles.
When you’re an asshole, being called out seems like persecution
4 years of crybaby MAGA people who don’t know what’s what and thinks everything is against them. Which is partially true.
4 years of this, people.
Only 4? God I wish I had your optimism
4 more years of this. donvict’s bastardization of the slogan dates back to december 2011.
the far right whining about the ‘liberal’ media goes back a lot earlier than that
4 years… at least.
Four more years, with many more to come.
So?
I mean . . . this is nothing. This is just the kind of article you can expect for at least 3.7 years. You wanna dig your teeth into a second turd circus administration, feel free. It won’t change a motherfucking thing.
The corporate medai has failed so spectacularly they’re just staring up their own asshole at this point asking each other what they think.
Wake me up when they actually melt.
The glaciers are going to melt loooooooooong before the MAGA cult will.
Meh…no it didn’t. Maga people don’t watch 60 minutes. A bunch of X bots reposted a bunch of bot links.
Well, looks like it is already starting. I fully expected the donvict fans to get even angrier if he won. Just like last time.
I think part of it is that they are now also having conversations in their lives where normal Americans are just fucking done with them. Just because they are enthusiastic about donvict, and gleefully voted for him over the objections of those around them, doesn’t mean they are going to just roll with it, and still be friends, lovers, relatives, because “it’s just politics”. Some people are just getting cut off:
Huffpost basically just platforming the worst opinions available. Thanks dumbasses.
everyone knows maga opinions are stupid and useless. that doesn’t take away from the enjoyment of watching them whine about everything under the sun
The resistance:
watching them whine
Not necessarily a bad thing.
If reporting on it makes moderate conservatives embarrassed to be associated with MAGA conservatives, they’re helping to create a divide and start infighting.
I’m probably never going to like fluff pieces or opinion-based news so let’s just leave it at that. Hope you’re right.
You’re right. Using Twitter quotes as a source of news is journalistic malpractice. They’re just lazily pushing out dumb articles that are only popular because they confirm your priors.
None of us have our hearts in our work these days, but I’d be fired for this level of faking it
