“BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See – Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.”

https://www.thereset.news/p/breaking-heres-the-60-minutes-segment?brid=B5tlw2JeGMed9O2l7reARA

This reminds me of the record companies and Napster. By suing the file trading company, by trying to keep the record business in the past, the labels amplified the story to the point where not only everybody in America knew about Napster, they wanted to try it! People secured broadband just to download files! And once you used Napster, there was no way you could go back to the overpriced CD for one good track model.

Now the labels could have looked into the future, tried to get ahead of the public. This is what Spotify did. People had never used streaming, they didn’t believe it would work, but when they tried it, they adored it… AND SPOTIFY SINGLE-HANDEDLY SAVED THE RECORD BUSINESS!

But you can’t say that, because Spotify and Daniel Ek are the devil, don’t you know? They’re keeping people whose music the public doesn’t want to stream in quantity from making beaucoup bucks. MEANWHILE, those artists whose music is streamed prodigiously are making more money than ever before (assuming a bad record deal doesn’t have their label siphoning off most of the revenue).

It probably never occurred to Bari Weiss that this video might be leaked. I mean it existed… And the funny thing is, after suing people who leaked albums early, the artists and labels figured out that getting noticed at all was the problem. We had unannounced drops. The story wasn’t the hype, but the underlying material…is it good enough that people want to pull it, listen to it?

Now I stopped watching “60 Minutes” years ago, and if there wasn’t this brouhaha, I probably wouldn’t have watched this segment either.

But Bari Weiss poured gasoline on a smoldering fire and now the conflagration is burning worldwide and I watched the video… And it looks bad, really bad. But if Bari Weiss hadn’t tried to bury it, most people would have never seen it, after all, Trump is flooding the zone and no outlet has universal mindshare.

This is just another straw on the camel’s back. This “60 Minutes” piece is not going to cause a revolution unto itself. But like the renaming of the Kennedy Center, it will stick in your craw. It just doesn’t feel right, so much doesn’t feel right.

Now everybody is expendable. Elise Stefanik just realized this and rumor has it that Kristi Noem is on her way out. The only person who needs to survive is Trump.

And it’s not only his cabinet, but the citizenry at large. Doesn’t matter if you’re MAGA or an extreme lefty… Trump is out for himself, look at all the money is family has made since he’s been in office.

It’s a matter of more and more people waking up.

And you never know when they will.

It’s not like prices suddenly jumped, they were high and going higher, but “affordability” rose to the surface, it’s the number one issue in America today. And it is a problem…just go to the grocery store.

So what is going to bubble up to the surface next?

I don’t know.

But if you’re playing a team sport, if you’re defending Trump to the death, the joke is on you, you just haven’t realized it yet.

As for Bari Weiss and her billion dollar cronies, they don’t understand the power of the public, they don’t understand they can’t enforce their will upon people willy-nilly. Furthermore, they are vulnerable. These techies, they’re not heroes, they’re ZEROES!

Bari Weiss was too stupid to know that the video would out. Because she’s so busy sucking at the tit of the monied class that she doesn’t fully comprehend the internet, which is denigrated by seemingly every publication run by Boomers and Gen-X’ers.

It’s laughable. The internet is here, as are smartphones. And if you’re putting down the phone that just means you’ve got less information, and he or she with the most information wins, always.

Say you’re not on TikTok. Rail against social media. Decry youngsters staring at their phones… But the joke is on you, the internet addicted are plugged-in, they’re much better informed than you, they know how the world turns.

But you know better.

Everybody knows better when in fact they know very little. If you were on TikTok you’d know this, the man on the street interviews are horrifying.

It’s all of a piece…news, music, streaming TV… After all, Apple not only distributes music, it commissions television shows… And Paramount and Netflix are duking it out for Warner Bros. You can’t separate politics from media and vice versa. This is the world we now live in.

As for music… It used to have something to say… But where are the artists today? Alone and afraid, hoarding their dollars.

Oh, I’m not going to play nice. Decorum is for losers. If you just want to read stuff you agree with…

The joke is on you.

But right now, the joke is on THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES!

P.S. Don’t e-mail me that the video is no longer at the above site (right now it’s still available). CBS will do its best to kill distribution, the video has already been taken down in places…but it will never die.

P.P.S. Don’t self-satisfiedly complain that an article I’m linking to is behind a paywall. If you can’t afford $12.99 a month for Apple News+… The old saw that information wants to be free… You’ve got to pay for it, and if you don’t, you’re out of the loop. You pay for Netflix, why not the news?