𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑 𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐍: 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓-𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐍𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐔𝐄

As Scott Pelley exits 60 Minutes — pushed out after Bari Weiss’s new ownership installed fresh producers — Victor Davis Hanson explained why the legacy press always reacts the same way: not with dignity, but with grievance - M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman

• The complaint, Hanson says, is that they can no longer be “𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵-𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴” while posing as “𝘴𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴”. 

Underneath the wounded act is a simpler problem: 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞...

The anchors aren’t being silenced — they are being out-competed, and they cannot stand it. 

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫. 

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞.