Heather Hendershot
@profhendershot.bsky.social
Author of When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Media historian, film weirdo, 45rpm collector. Qapla’!
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So thrilled, my Nashville book has arrived! You can order it here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/nashville... It's still 2025, so not too late for 50 year anniversary screenings. Need a guest speaker? "Let me be the one!"
Super analysis of the 60 Minutes situation from @michaelsocolow.bsky.social linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/8-things-b...
8 Things Bari Weiss Unintentionally Accomplished By Interfering with "60 Minutes"
Imagine what would have happened if she just let that piece run as scheduled. It would've been better for her, better for "60 Minutes," better for the American public, and better for Donald Trump.
linttrapofhistory.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Super analysis of the 60 Minutes situation from @michaelsocolow.bsky.social linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/8-things-b...
Reposted by Heather Hendershot
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
Reposted by Heather Hendershot
Regardless of media format, archivists and knowledge-preservers are always vital. This is what democracy looks like.
New: archivists have distributed the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss killed. iCloud, Mega, torrent too. Shows won’t be able to keep this episode offline www.404media.co/archivists-p...
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Regardless of media format, archivists and knowledge-preservers are always vital. This is what democracy looks like.
Reposted by Heather Hendershot
download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.
I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3...
December 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.
Reposted by Heather Hendershot
Archivists gonna archive! ✊🏼
December 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Archivists gonna archive! ✊🏼
60 Minutes gets high viewer numbers, but this censored segment could easily get more viewers than it would have gotten via normal TV airing. How do you make people want to see something? Tell them they cannot. Just keep posting and reposting this thing.
December 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
60 Minutes gets high viewer numbers, but this censored segment could easily get more viewers than it would have gotten via normal TV airing. How do you make people want to see something? Tell them they cannot. Just keep posting and reposting this thing.
Right on.
December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Right on.
Reposted by Heather Hendershot
I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3...
December 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3...
This was exactly the social media post I needed to see toda. 🤓
Man, no one can show their true anger by just presenting statistics quite like Robert Caro.
December 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This was exactly the social media post I needed to see toda. 🤓
The only image we get of Broadview appears to be a drone shot. The ICE crisis is documented in the streets, but once people are detained, images disappear, and we only see from afar. Consider the gut-wrenching drone shots of other facilities, with detainees spelling out SOS with their bodies.
A group of Democratic Illinois lawmakers toured the ICE center in Broadview on Monday with a federal order that shows members of Congress cannot be blocked from conducting oversight at immigration facilities.
Democratic lawmakers visit ICE facility in Broadview after court order granting access
A group of Democratic Illinois lawmakers toured the ICE center in Broadview on Monday with a federal order that shows members of Congress cannot be blocked from conducting oversight at immigration facilities.
www.cbsnews.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The only image we get of Broadview appears to be a drone shot. The ICE crisis is documented in the streets, but once people are detained, images disappear, and we only see from afar. Consider the gut-wrenching drone shots of other facilities, with detainees spelling out SOS with their bodies.
"Holy fucking dumpster fire." Right-o.
NEW from me:
CBS News staffers are warning that Bari Weiss is sparking a "revolt" at 60 Minutes and the network after she spiked a story on CECOT.
"Holy fucking dumpster fire," one staffer told me.
Also, I have more details on today's 'angry" editorial call
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
CBS News staffers are warning that Bari Weiss is sparking a "revolt" at 60 Minutes and the network after she spiked a story on CECOT.
"Holy fucking dumpster fire," one staffer told me.
Also, I have more details on today's 'angry" editorial call
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
‘Holy f***ing dumpster fire’: Bari Weiss sparks ‘revolt’ by spiking 60 Minutes story
EXCLUSIVE: ‘It’s going to be fascinating to see how far Bari is willing to double down on the piece ‘not ready’ argument and or/attack Sharyn and [60 Minutes],’ one CBS News staffer told The Independe...
www.independent.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"Holy fucking dumpster fire." Right-o.
Part two of my interview about my new Nashville book is the cover story here: www.rorotoko.com !
RORO
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December 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Part two of my interview about my new Nashville book is the cover story here: www.rorotoko.com !
So is this censored 60 Minutes segment gonna get leaked or what?
Earlier this month, after Trump blasted "60 Minutes" for interviewing Marjorie Taylor Greene, correspondents noticed a change behind the scenes. "Bari Weiss got personally involved," specifically with stories about politics, a source at the program says.
December 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
So is this censored 60 Minutes segment gonna get leaked or what?
Discomfort.
Relief.
Relief.
December 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Discomfort.
Relief.
Relief.
Always a treat to find a new lady-at-the-typewriter GIF.
December 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Always a treat to find a new lady-at-the-typewriter GIF.
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Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.
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December 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Nashville book is hot this week! 💥🔥⚡️
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I'm looking forward to Michael's next book: "The elevator pitch for the book was the following question: Why did the U.S.A. have only two national networks at the dawn of network broadcasting? Why not 5? Why not 7? Why not 20?"
How the 1920s "radio boom" might provide an historical precedent for today's AI bubble.
After radio stocks collapsed in mid-1920s, there was a big shake-out, leaving just the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in 1926.
Latest in The Lint Trap.
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/is-consoli...
After radio stocks collapsed in mid-1920s, there was a big shake-out, leaving just the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in 1926.
Latest in The Lint Trap.
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/is-consoli...
Is Consolidation Inevitable in the AI Industry? Historical Perspective from the 1920s "Radio Boom"
The capitalized value of companies like Radio Corporation of America and DeForest Radio skyrocketed in the 1920s. But too much competition and not enough revenue forced consolidation.
linttrapofhistory.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I'm looking forward to Michael's next book: "The elevator pitch for the book was the following question: Why did the U.S.A. have only two national networks at the dawn of network broadcasting? Why not 5? Why not 7? Why not 20?"
I named my fists Random and Harvest, but I don't remember why.
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I named my fists Random and Harvest, but I don't remember why.
Unbought and unbossed!
December 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Unbought and unbossed!
Purchased!
Last day to get 50% all @illinoispress.bsky.social books using code FRIDAY50, including, say, this one? www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Purchased!
What a treat it would be to be able to see this one on 35mm!
Billy Wilder’s THE APARTMENT (1960) screens in 35mm Saturday & Sunday, December 27th & 28th, at 2:00pm. Tickets: buff.ly/TqVPj8H
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
What a treat it would be to be able to see this one on 35mm!
Watching tonight. And why not? I had the strangest dream last night…
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Watching tonight. And why not? I had the strangest dream last night…
Reposted by Heather Hendershot
Orville Etoria, a Jamaican national who’d lived in New York for nearly 50 years, was shackled and put on an ICE flight to Eswatini. “It helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains,” he said. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dLJ4SQ
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Orville Etoria, a Jamaican national who’d lived in New York for nearly 50 years, was shackled and put on an ICE flight to Eswatini. “It helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains,” he said. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dLJ4SQ
What could go wrong?
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
What could go wrong?