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'60 Minutes' Opening Prompts MAGA Meltdown

www.huffpost.com '60 Minutes' Opening Prompts MAGA Meltdown

"Pure Democratic propaganda," one Trump-supporting critic wrote about the news show.

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.

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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.
  
  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©
  
  For now. It will be state sponsored media shortly
- This could very well be one of the first times a large swath of cable tv viewers and MAGA heard about Gaetz allegations of giving hardcore drugs to child prostitutes, so seeing their reaponse is interesting.
  
  MAGA people avoid all mainstream media except 60 minutes on CBS?
  
  A large number of Americans prefer to get news from Cable TV. Especially the elderly and poor.
  
  The biggest cable news network by a huge margin is Fox News with more than double the second place, MSNBC, views.
  CBS isn't on Cable, it is a Broadcast TV network but it is among the highest rated broadcast channels, even higher than Fox News, due to CBS also covering sports.
  So while CBS is less popular as a news network, 60 Minutes is the most popular News Program in the USA.
  In 2013 Pew Research said "About one- quarter of American adults, (24%) watch only Fox News, 23% watch only CNN and 15% watch only MSNBC."
  And here's some additional graphs for further enrichment of your contextual info
  
  You're welcome for the free sociology lesson.
  
  So, my point was, the first time they would've heard about Matt Gaetz was 60 minutes, not the regular news?
  
  Probably. Considering how little air time his sex trafficking has received and it being an almost non-existent topic on fox.
  
  There is a high probability that 60 minutes was the first time many MAGA heard about the Gaetz Allegations. Because there is a high probability that they only watch Fox News and Social Media News as their primary news sources.
  
  So, you're saying they're watching Fox News all day every day, but tune into 60 minutes every week, which is the only thing they watch on CBS, and this is the first time there's a 60 minutes episode that clashes with their MAGA worldview?
  You think this is more likely than this just being the classic manufactured right wing outrage machine that spins up every week about whatever the right wants their base to be angry about?
  
  You saw the statistics dude idk what you're confused about.
  
  Your statistics don't show that MAGA true believers would be watching 60 minutes, they just show stats for the general population.
- 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.
- Lol their feelings don't care about your facts
- 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
- Why are we accepting reporting on tweets as a journalism?
  Are we? It's on huffpost.com. Since when is that journalism?
- I want to agree, but there is something to be said about the influence of social media on an average person. One reason I was really anxious about the election was whenever I saw shitload of likes on tweets that were straight up lies.
  
  The problem with this garbage type of reporting is that you can create any narrative you want. Social media is so big that it's not hard to find a handful of posts, like what is being posted in their story, saying almost anything you need them to. Always going to be some insane person in some corner of the internet saying something completely batshit.
  The article is really "we found some people on social media saying these things" and it's being framed as "maga meltdown." It's fucking garbage.
  I agree that social media has a large influence, but how does garbage journalism like this do anything other than add more fuel to the fire of "traditional media is now trash"?
  
  Oooh, i misunderstood you at first. I 100% agree, I have unsubbed from some subreddits before because they kept posting tweets of “haters” as if that’s noteworthy in any way.
- Huffington Post is has been clickbait trash for a while now.
- 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.
- Whooo boy, let me introduce you to gaming and popular culture 'journalism', where these 'journalists' do almost nothing other than write op eds about the vibes they're getting from Twitter in the past 48 hrs.

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