Sam Litzinger

Mostly retired #journalist (ex-CBS News, ex-AP, etc). Master’s degree in #philosophy. Friend to #animals. Usually annoyed about something. Thank you for reading my posts.

My audio obituary of CBS News Radio:
https://on.soundcloud.com/6tMcY2ZIjYbefssAwm

My website:  https://www.samlitzinger.com/  #journalism #philosophy #animals #history  #music

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2026-07-17 16:34:49 UTC

It occurs to me that today’s weather here in DC is exactly what Trump wants for the world with his pro-fossil fuel/anti-green energy policies: temperatures near 100F, a thick haze of wildfire smoke, a simmering sense of doom.

2026-07-09 21:28:11 UTC

https://apnews.com/article/trump-arch-capital-commission-review-e6da0a9e3ce59ea946ab653bd9853bf8

2026-06-30 23:03:23 UTC

Wait - FOUR DEMOCRATIC governors sent National Guard troops to support Trump’s idiotic, self-indulgent National Mall debacle??
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/29/nx-s1-5875427/michigan-governor-national-guard-dc

2026-06-25 17:45:14 UTC

https://apnews.com/article/david-clayton-thomas-84-died-singer-62acd793a277ff981d1635b80ed230b4

2026-06-01 20:15:45 UTC

Racist, misogynist swine…
“Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List
The defense secretary’s decision to block the officers’ promotions appears driven by his anti-diversity stance rather than based on merit.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/politics/hegseth-navy-promotion-list.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-05-22 03:06:59 UTC

https://apnews.com/article/star-gemini-observatory-telescope-67746d25c6bb55df3c8a7789690b666b

2026-05-22 01:36:58 UTC

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@nprofile…xwnf @nprofile…p77l Ugh.

2026-05-20 23:59:17 UTC

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“There's 99 years of history wrapped up in all that. I guess it will all end up in some dusty archive, never to be seen or heard again. I know the business has changed and I know people get their news from a wider variety of sources now. But...”
2/2

2026-05-20 23:56:52 UTC

From Christopher Cruise:
“Today at 331a I anchored the final CBS News Radio newscast that will ever emanate from the famed CBS News Washington bureau. That's something I never thought I would say. The final newscast on the CBS News Radio network will air at 1131p this Friday. It will emanate from the famed CBS News headquarters in New York. I don't know where all the audio files will go, where all the awards will go or where all the script files will go…”
1/2

2026-05-20 20:44:26 UTC

It continues to astonish me that most of the richest people on Earth today have no concept of a public good.
The late CBS owner Bill Paley, for all his faults, at least understood that a news outlet didn’t need to make money to be useful.
He sometimes said he had Jack Benny to fund CBS - he didn’t need the news division to do it.
It’s an idea completely alien to someone like Jeff Bezos.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/what-do-you-think-went-wrong-cnbc-host-presses-jeff-bezos-on-washington-post-layoffs/

2026-05-17 22:20:23 UTC

Please send a good thought to my old feral cat friend Socks, who died peacefully today at nearly 15 - a nice long run for an outdoor cat.
I think he enjoyed his time with us and we’re glad we could help him.
Here he is splayed out in the spring sun, which is how I’ll remember him.
Hope to see you again someday, buddy.
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/116/592/218/426/852/501/original/6840117ed6b42d01.png

2026-05-15 21:52:46 UTC

It’s rare to see someone commit political suicide for no good reason…
https://apnews.com/article/tina-peters-polis-colorado-clemency-trump-eca56e2167a72e306a54b99b847d918c

2026-05-11 19:32:40 UTC

JFC.
No wonder his companies keep going bankrupt.
Wharton should rescind his degree.
“Federal records show that the no-bid contract to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and paint it blue now costs $13.1 million — more than seven times the amount President Trump initially said it would.”
- NYT

2026-05-10 18:22:52 UTC

CBS Sunday Morning on the life and death of CBS News Radio…
#radio
#journalism
https://youtu.be/UOJMLNbEIGY

2026-05-10 02:48:11 UTC

This is such a great idea!
“This Bookstore Gets Good Mileage”
Saint Rita’s Amazing Traveling Bookstore Textual Apothecary
(Here’s the website:
http://saintritasbooks.com/)
https://dnyuz.com/2026/05/09/this-bookstore-gets-good-mileage/
#Books

2026-05-07 21:03:27 UTC

Get it before it’s gone, #radio fans!
https://ringtones.cbsradionewsfeed.com/Top%20of%20the%20Hour%20Older%20with%20Tone.mp3

2026-05-05 20:08:02 UTC

Just under three weeks until my former employer CBS News Radio disappears into the ether.
Here’s a link to my audio obit.
#history
#radio
#journalism
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-56559296/farewelltocbsnewsradiomixdown

2026-05-03 11:56:29 UTC

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“Americans disapprove of his handling of the situation with Iran by 66 percent to 33 percent. His rating on the economy has declined by seven points, to 34 percent, as gas prices have spiked. His approval rating on inflation has fallen five points in that time to 27 percent and his lowest rating comes on perceptions of his handling of the general cost of living, with 23 percent approving vs. 76 percent disapproving.”

2026-05-03 11:55:17 UTC

“Trump disapproval reaches new high, Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds Democrats now hold a five-point advantage in support for Congress, up from two points in February.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/03/trump-approval-ratings-poll/

2026-04-30 16:56:04 UTC

“Public rejects Trump’s ballroom by wide margin The president’s planned 250-foot arch and a Treasury Department plan to put Trump’s signature on paper money are also unpopular.”
Again, I’m waiting for one Democratic party leader - just one - to come out right now and promise that all of these hideous Trump projects will be reversed the second Dems are back in power.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/30/washington-post-poll-trump-ballroom/

2026-04-28 18:57:16 UTC

For anyone interested, I made an audio piece about my former employer CBS News Radio, which is scheduled to close May 22nd after nearly 100 years.
It’s far from a complete history, but has some info about the network’s early days and its amazing WWII reporting.
#history
#radio
#journalism
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-56559296/farewelltocbsnewsradiomixdown

2026-04-22 19:30:33 UTC

Geez, what a great band.
The Allman Brothers with “Whipping Post” from 1970:
https://youtu.be/FUvxRjYqjEQ

2026-04-21 20:37:16 UTC

NYT:
“President Trump announced he was indefinitely extending the cease-fire between the United States and Iran, which was set to expire within hours.”
“Taco, taco man…
I want to be…
A taco man…”
- The Village Idiot

2026-04-18 11:17:12 UTC

https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-04-18-2026

2026-04-18 01:56:11 UTC

I’d love to see this lunatic file suit. Discovery would be a hoot.
“Kash Patel's team threatens lawsuit over bombshell report he drinks on the job”
https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-2676760572/

2026-04-17 22:38:37 UTC

Here’s a photo sent by my friend, former Mutual and CBS News Radio White House Correspondent Peter Maer.
Any old #radio folks know what this machine is?
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/116/422/431/526/077/784/original/2b764a083b67bead.png

2026-04-10 19:44:35 UTC

“Officials Release Design for 250-Foot Arch in Washington, as Trump Seeks Another Imprint”
It should never be built, but if it is, imagine the joy people will feel when they knock it down with sledgehammers after Trump is gone.
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/116/382/115/939/212/770/original/f5d8429bef1d4112.png

2026-04-09 16:55:10 UTC

“Countless Americans face a scary retirement. This rule could change that.”
“Carrie Sheffield is director of the Center for AI and Technology at Independent Women.”
“The good news is that the Trump administration is working to level the playing field.”
Kind of amazing The Washington Post would run this pro-Trump propaganda piece a day after its own personal finance columnist denounced the administration’s plan as a “greed grab for Wall Street”.
And what is “Independent Women”?

2026-04-09 00:32:22 UTC

These prediction markets really are a vast criminal conspiracy…
https://apnews.com/article/polymarket-iran-trump-ceasefire-prediction-markets-350d9fe5ffefa74080ff5dd973aef48b

2026-04-08 20:41:31 UTC

The Wrap:
“CBS News Invites Pete Hegseth to White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The Defense Secretary and former “Fox & Friends Weekend” host has spent his tenure attacking the press”

2026-04-07 22:24:52 UTC

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New Catholic/Trump lackey JD Vance must be thinking about converting to Confucianism at this point…

2026-04-07 22:18:47 UTC

“Today as we all know there was this threat against all the people of Iran. This is truly unacceptable,” Pope Leo XIV said, adding that any attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law.
In some of his strongest comments yet against the war, Leo urged Americans and other people of good will to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives to demand they reject war and work for peace.
- AP

2026-04-07 18:52:20 UTC

Anyone want to give me a million dollars so I can buy and program a #radio station near Washington, DC?
https://dcrtv.com/wjej-is-for-sale/

2026-04-07 03:02:19 UTC

The Washington Post editorial board joins the cultists who claim Trump has no agency - he can’t make his own decisions. Bad things that happen are always the fault of his underlings. Trump apparently has no control over people after he hires them.
“A shameful ICE detention of a soldier’s wife The president is again poorly served by hardliners in his administration.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/06/ice-detention-soldier-wife-annie-ramos/

2026-04-05 16:53:52 UTC

AP:
“Trump issues fiery new threat against Iran as details of US aviator's rescue emerge”
“fiery”

2026-04-05 13:57:57 UTC

If the 25th Amendment isn’t invoked after this Trump social media post, it should be stricken from the Constitution because it’s meaningless.
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/116/352/448/257/160/909/original/6767cbfa0ddd3f00.png

2026-04-05 13:28:43 UTC

I see major media outlets still can’t bring themselves to quote Trump’s insane social media post in full:
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/116/352/331/722/013/152/original/7b9f5f7b917c6d75.png

2026-04-04 19:32:07 UTC

Companies like Polymarket
and Kalshi are the death rattle of capitalism.
“Polymarket, one of the world’s largest prediction platforms, said on Friday that it had taken down an online market that allowed people to place bets on when U.S. forces would rescue a missing American crew member whose plane was shot down in Iran on Friday.”
- NYT

2026-04-04 14:47:42 UTC

The U.S. president is a maniac (who also doesn’t know the difference between “reign” and “rain”).
America may be done for.
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/116/346/981/343/717/724/original/b3e60fb4b1b59b2e.png

2026-04-03 20:28:07 UTC

“Iranian operatives have been digging out underground missile bunkers and silos struck by American and Israeli bombs, returning them to operation hours after an attack, according to U.S. intelligence reports.”
- NYT
Every military history book I’ve read suggests you can’t really defeat a country without sending in ground forces (or dropping nuclear bombs).
If you aren’t willing to commit ground forces, you shouldn’t start a war.
Is Trump willing to send in ground troops?

2026-04-02 19:04:10 UTC

May this photo haunt you for the rest of your life, Pam…
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/116/336/663/660/081/444/original/0c86d3d4aed0e1e0.png

2026-04-02 02:01:35 UTC

https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-04-01-2026

2026-04-01 00:17:20 UTC

Not sure why CarShield thought it was a good idea to have professional liar Sean Spicer as its pitchman…
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/116/326/571/294/831/626/original/9a98c2f4fb312bd3.png

2026-04-01 00:05:25 UTC

Trump’s going to send them into combat, isn’t he?
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-us-troops-deployment-aircraft-carrier-7c015aa5156525fcc95c42897de52e0f

2026-03-31 23:32:18 UTC

A horrible person.
Well, two horrible people, actually.
Hegseth lifts suspension of Kid Rock helicopter flyby crews after Trump comments https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/kid-rock-army-helicopter-suspended.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

2026-03-30 03:03:52 UTC

Great to see Rush return. Nice work by new drummer Anika Nilles. Neil would be pleased. Loren Gold’s keyboards pack a punch.
https://youtu.be/kVw-4L59Tw0

2026-03-29 20:33:49 UTC

https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/116/314/364/666/139/914/original/8f5b789601d96bb6.png

2026-03-29 13:08:07 UTC

Must be tough for JD Vance to remain a professed Catholic when the pope says pretty much everything he believes goes against church doctrine…
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-palm-sunday-francis-pope-5749906e8c5d5303b1fb06e33607e062

2026-03-26 23:04:18 UTC

And so ends my use of cash…
“U.S. dollars will bear the signature of President Trump later this year, the Treasury Department said, an unprecedented change to the nation’s currency that the department said is being made in honor of America’s 250th anniversary.
As a result, Mr. Trump is set to be the first sitting U.S. president to have his signature on the currency.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/politics/trump-signature-us-dollars.html?smid=url-share

2026-03-25 21:03:34 UTC

“Wendy McMahon Left CBS. She's Not Done Making News
In her first in-depth interview since stepping down, the former CBS News President gets candid about her exit, Bari Weiss and the future of news.”
“The company and I didn’t agree on the path forward. That is the reality. As a leader, as a CEO within an organization, when you sense misalignment, when you believe your vision and your values are at odds with how the business is moving—that’s your cue, right?”
https://www.marieclaire.com/career-advice/wendy-mcmahon-cbs-newsexit-interview/

2026-03-22 03:36:59 UTC

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@nprofile…44q3 That sort of thing once worked for Cronkite!
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/116/270/734/550/398/004/original/3702b68d6a5395ae.png

2026-03-22 03:29:11 UTC

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@nprofile…44q3 So we were pioneers?!
I should have held up sock puppets to act out the news stories…

2026-03-22 02:56:37 UTC

A blast from the CBS News Radio past.
For a while, they put cameras in the radio studios and sent video during our newscasts to what was then CBSN, the streaming video service.
Apparently a “ USA Today” reporter did not find this deadly dull:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/09/14/michael-antonoff-radio--pictures/72260762/

2026-03-21 20:23:20 UTC

Because my parents brought me up properly, I’ve sometimes wondered if would be wrong to write a gloating, triumphant post when Trump dies.
I no longer wonder about that and will start writing it now to be kept in the drafts folder for when that blessed day comes.
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/116/269/022/389/073/496/original/01920a14d4bfb0ae.png

2026-03-21 13:41:01 UTC

One of my most delightful interviews from my CBS News Radio days was with the amazing B.B. King, who brought his guitar Lucille into the studio.
So I sat about four feet away from one of the best musicians in history while he played the blues and talked.
It doesn’t get any better than that.
#radio
#blues
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2026-03-20 16:28:43 UTC

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@nprofile…mz0q @nprofile…dyu0 It was an honor to have worked there.
Until recently.

2026-03-20 15:28:19 UTC

“Today, we informed our CBS News Radio team and approximately 700 affiliated stations that we will end the service on May 22, 2026.”

2026-03-20 15:00:47 UTC

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From Brian Stelter:
“… the executives told the staff that CBS News Radio will sign off the air on May 22. "While this was a necessary decision, it was not an easy one," they wrote. "A shift in radio station programming strategies, coupled with challenging economic realities, has made it impossible to continue the service."”

2026-03-20 14:36:19 UTC

I’m hearing that CBS News Radio will shut down in May.
The #radio network was founded in 1928.
I worked there on and off for about 20 years.
It’s a historic loss for broadcast journalism.

2026-03-18 22:27:17 UTC

‘Not our war': Europe says no to Trump - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/not-our-war-europe-says-no-trump-2026-03-18/

2026-03-09 21:25:37 UTC

“There’s going to be an IndyCar race in downtown Washington. Here’s what we know. Drivers are expected to zoom past downtown landmarks at speeds as high as 185 mph during the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, part of the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration.”
A cheerleading story in The Washington Post.
Apparently nobody thinks this is a stupid idea.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/03/09/indycar-race-national-mall-freedom-250-grand-prix/

2026-03-09 03:48:34 UTC

Remembering the Arab oil embargo of 1973 tonight. In my little hometown of Titusville, PA, there were several days when NONE of the local service stations had gasoline. People were genuinely afraid of being stuck someplace.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Arab-oil-embargo

2026-03-07 22:08:37 UTC

Journalism pop quiz. ONE of these lines by the AP is accurate. Which one?
“Trump grieves with families during return of soldiers killed in war in the Middle East”
“DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday joined grieving families at Dover Air Force Base at the dignified transfer for the six U.S. soldiers killed in the war in the Middle East.”

2026-03-07 21:10:15 UTC

The Florida Bar appears to be incompetent enough to be given a job in the Trump administration…
“Florida Bar walks back statement on investigation into Halligan, now says there is none”
https://apnews.com/article/lindsey-halligan-investigation-florida-bar-trump-05c2bcdee8f2defba4b8120d10830f20

2026-03-03 19:23:01 UTC

Ladies and gentlemen, The Washington Post opinions section:
“The Trump Doctrine is here. It ends forever wars. Like Reagan, the president has found a way to change the world without putting boots on the ground.”
“If you saw what Trump sees, I bet you’d become a hawk, too Iran is the sound of another president confronting the reality of constant global threats.”
“At last, the credibility of U.S. deterrence is being restored”

2026-03-01 04:05:26 UTC

I wonder how much money per day it costs the U.S. to launch attacks on Iran…

2026-02-28 12:29:29 UTC

An absolute fuckwit, announcing the start of a war while wearing a little cap.
https://youtu.be/-fsF7R53etU

2026-02-25 21:32:08 UTC

“A professor challenged the Smithsonian. Security shut the gallery. As President Donald Trump seeks to reshape its museums and other cultural institutions, wall text has become a battleground and documentation a form of resistance.”
(Gift article)
https://wapo.st/4kT0GVX

2026-02-22 17:48:47 UTC

Deranged.
“White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X:
“In the middle of the night while most Americans were asleep, the United States Secret Service acted quickly and decisively to neutralize a crazy person, armed with a gun and a gas canister, who intruded President Trump’s home. Federal law enforcement are working 24/7 to keep our country safe and protect all Americans. It’s shameful and reckless that Democrats have chosen to shut down their Department.””

2026-02-20 19:02:20 UTC

“The Supreme Court’s Declaration of Independence
The court’s rejection of President Trump’s tariffs program is the latest in a series of clashes between him and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.”
- The NYT
I suppose it’s possible, with whatever reasoning skills he has left, that Roberts is starting to realize his court had gone too far in giving a fascist like Trump too much authority.
Possible.

2026-02-19 23:19:15 UTC

Happy birthday to the great guitarist Tony Iommi.
My first time hearing him play on “Master of Reality” (1971) was a thrill.
https://youtu.be/F11DfINx5Io

2026-02-09 19:58:19 UTC

Dr. Cassidy surrendered his soul and violated the Hippocratic Oath to put RFK, Jr. in charge of American health policy and what did that get him?
Defeated, probably.
“MAHA Group Pledges $1 Million to Help Defeat Senator Cassidy in Louisiana Primary
Tony Lyons, a co-founder of the group MAHA PAC, said his group would support the congresswoman who has been endorsed by President Trump.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/us/politics/maha-cassidy-primary-louisiana.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-02-07 14:36:59 UTC

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“In addition to closing down its sports department and books section, the Post has elected to shutter a number of the paper’s foreign bureaus, which have long supported the work of DC-based national security correspondents. Politics reporters and editors—at least ten—are being let go, including the desk’s enterprise editor, an experienced campaign reporter, and a breaking politics news reporter. The paper will drastically shrink its San Francisco bureau and lay off its Amazon correspondent.”

2026-02-07 14:22:53 UTC

“What the Post Cuts Will Do
With a third of its staff gone, the Post won’t be able to deliver on the vision its leadership has laid out.”
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/what-the-washington-post-cuts-will-do-layoffs-business-of-news-jeff-bezos.php

2026-02-06 14:19:48 UTC

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There was a time not long ago when a racist post like this would have ended a presidency.
Now it barely warrants a news story.
America is in deep, deep trouble.

2026-02-05 03:10:07 UTC

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“All of the paper’s staff photographers were laid off, as well as the majority of the video team. Elsewhere across the newsroom, the team tasked with covering the technology industry was hollowed out, eliminating some three-quarters of the 20-person desk, including most of the San Francisco bureau, and notably, The Post’s Amazon beat reporter.”

2026-02-05 03:08:51 UTC

“The sports department was closed, with most of its roughly 45 staffers laid off. The international desk, with reporters deployed to war zones and hot spots around the world, was gutted. The 40-person metro desk was decimated. The Post also closed its books section and suspended the “Post Reports” podcast.”
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-jeff-bezos-will-lewis?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=bezos-washpost-bloodletting&_bhlid=f628a05a374c9c7ad05e85d9827b4b4c828326ab

2026-02-02 21:18:24 UTC

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Christopher Glenn anchors “In the News”:
https://youtu.be/MEfYOBMhv1k
Christopher Glenn anchors
Newsbreak:
https://youtu.be/ocRJz07WZsI
Christopher Glenn’s final CBS News Radio broadcast:
https://youtu.be/FZFxQ5oNQCI

2026-02-02 21:16:37 UTC

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Charles Kuralt anchors the first episode of “CBS News Sunday Morning”:
https://youtu.be/ZukXMriTidY
Charles Osgood on the art of writing for radio and for television:
https://youtu.be/9zsUkmhAGQA

2026-02-02 21:14:20 UTC

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The first “60 Minutes” broadcast:
https://youtu.be/5UMEnmNiO_g
Mike Wallace interviews Ayatollah Khomeini:
https://youtu.be/dwyWI_jKQaw
Ed Bradley on how a “60 Minutes” piece is put together:
https://youtu.be/WsB2gncWy48
Ed Bradley on getting out of Saigon as the Viet Cong moved in:
https://youtu.be/5CHjCqC_Puk

2026-02-02 21:12:20 UTC

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Douglas Edwards 1950 TV newscast: https://youtu.be/jWqbJs7p2Go
A Walter Cronkite retrospective: https://youtu.be/GF_cowNqmBU
Walter Cronkite anchors his final CBS Evening News broadcast:
https://youtu.be/G5tdqojA26E

2026-02-02 21:08:01 UTC

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Richard C. Hottelet reports on D-Day:
https://youtu.be/xJ3Lm9Y2ync
Charles Collingwood on D-Day:
https://youtu.be/frUDzHU-THw
1938: the first CBS World News Roundup:
https://youtu.be/6MPjh55ne1k
Mary Marvin Breckinridge, the “girl” among “The Murrow Boys”:
https://www.press.org/newsroom/clubcbs-series-highlights-murrow-girl-among-boys

2026-02-02 21:03:40 UTC

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Because I’m feeling nostalgic about the CBS News that used to be, here’s a highlights thread of some of the things I remember that made me want to work there.
#News
#history
Edward R. Murrow reports on The Blitz:
https://youtu.be/Za2Lus0CkRc
Murrow on Buchenwald:
https://youtu.be/YlhQvPfYSXk
Murrow on McCarthy:
https://youtu.be/vEvEmkMNYHY

2026-02-01 20:57:27 UTC

For the record, I’m no longer a CBS News consumer, despite having worked there on and off for about 20 years. It’s now a hopeless place under Bari Weiss.
Individual CBS reporters will still do good work, but overall the rot has set in.
Breaks my heart.
“Bari Weiss’s new CBS hires include ‘germ theory denialist’ doctor
Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributor”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/bari-weiss-cbs-mark-hyman

2026-01-28 20:43:57 UTC

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“Under Bezos’s leadership, CEO Will Lewis has floated a bunch of proposals to make the company profitable, few of which so far resemble anything people might actually want to buy.”

2026-01-28 20:39:41 UTC

‘There’s No Vision for Why It Should Exist’ Inside the Washington Post’s existential meltdown.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/inside-the-washington-posts-existential-meltdown.html

2026-01-21 19:22:36 UTC

As an American, I would like to say how sorry and embarrassed I am that this absolute idiot is our president and is representing us on the world stage.
I humbly ask for your forgiveness.
“Trump appears to confuse Iceland and Greenland during speech in Davos”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/21/trump-iceland-greenland-speech-davos-switzerland/88283786007/

2026-01-20 21:47:51 UTC

Dow slides 870 points, S&P 500 drops 2% for worst day since October on Trump tariff threat
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/19/stock-market-today-live-updates.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

2026-01-15 12:53:44 UTC

https://apnews.com/article/wikipedia-internet-jimmy-wales-50e796d70152d79a2e0708846f84f6d7

2026-01-14 00:05:26 UTC

This Ford worker is my new hero…
“Ford Worker At Dearborn Plant Screams ‘Pedophile Protector’ At President Trump, Who Responds -- ‘F--- You.’”
https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/34097/ford_worker_screams_pedophile_protector_to_president_trump_who_responds_f---_you

2026-01-05 23:24:32 UTC

RFK, Jr. is a murderous psychopath.
I hope parents will ignore his deluded advice and consult with pediatricians who actually want their children to live.
“US cuts universal childhood vaccine recommendations, including covid and hepatitis”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqzlvg83wgo

2025-12-22 23:43:23 UTC

Here’s the “60 Minutes” story Bari Weiss spiked:
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment

2025-12-19 23:44:42 UTC

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@nprofile…vdrq They were radio newscasts.

2025-12-19 16:43:47 UTC

There was a lot I didn’t like about the John Dickerson/Maurice DuBois “CBS Evening News” (almost none of which was their fault), but this was a pretty classy ending:
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/john-dickerson-and-maurice-dubois-sign-off-after-their-last-cbs-evening-news-broadcast/

2025-12-12 19:47:58 UTC

Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image
https://apnews.com/article/american-sign-language-trump-white-house-7ac33c635cdefd22154d6eb7e47d3d55

2025-11-28 20:41:25 UTC

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Maybe legal scholars can help me: who’s in possible legal jeopardy here? Hegseth, surely. Maybe his immediate subordinates. How about the guy who actually pushed the button to fire? The person tracking the boat?

2025-11-28 19:50:44 UTC

“Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/

2025-11-27 22:26:10 UTC

“The suspect received asylum from the U.S. government in April, according to three people with knowledge of the case.”
Trying to remember which administration was in power in April…
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/27/us/national-guard-shooting-dc?smid=nytcore-ios-share

2025-11-27 17:51:52 UTC

“Suspected Shooter Was in a ‘Zero Unit’ in Afghanistan.
The units were backed by the C.I.A. and trained to conduct missions in Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/dc-shooting-suspect-afghanistan-cia-unit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

2025-11-27 16:10:23 UTC

“NEW YORK (AP) — After President Donald Trump’s reported intervention, Paramount Pictures is set to distribute Brett Ratner’s “Rush Hour 4,” a project that Hollywood had eschewed after earlier sexual misconduct allegations against the director.”
https://apnews.com/article/rush-hour-4-brett-ratner-trump-c772091c374ad075a9399386a8050fe9