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CBS News on Sunday pulled a “60 Minutes” segment from its latest episode that was set to highlight conditions inside the notorious Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration has deported Venezuelan migrants.

The decision drew sharp backlash, including from the segment’s correspondent, Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision was “political” in a note to colleagues reviewed by several media outlets.

CBS News announced the change to the episode just hours before it was set to air. An editor’s note on the “60 Minutes” account on the social platform X notified the public that the broadcast lineup had been updated and that the “Inside CECOT” report would “air in a future broadcast.”

The New York Times reported the decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new CBS News editor in chief, “requested numerous changes to the segment.” CBS News, according to a statement reported by the Times, said the piece “needed additional reporting.”

NPR, meanwhile, reported that Weiss said the segment could not air without first getting an on-the-record statement from the Trump administration.

Alfonsi pushed back on suggestions that the decision to pull the segment was an editorial one, saying in the email, “Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices.”

“It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now—after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one,” she continued.

She also noted in her email that her team reached out to relevant government agencies and the White House with questions and did not get a response.

“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story,” Alfonsi wrote. “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”

Alfonsi noted the program had been promoting the story on social media for days and that “viewers are expecting it.”

“When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘Gold Standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet,” she wrote. “I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight.”

The Hill reached out to CBS News for comment.

Weiss released a statement Sunday night saying, “I look forward to airing this important piece when it’s ready,” according to The New York Times.

“My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be. Holding stories that aren’t ready for whatever reason — that they lack sufficient context, say, or that they are missing critical voices — happens every day in every newsroom,” she said.


https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5659558-cbs-news-pulls-60-minutes-segment/

The powers that be demand you speak no ill will against the great and powerful OZ!

I believe Trump has a plant or two at CBS/Disney that needs to be purged. They could have aired that without saying anything to the doofus in the WH.

I guess there is a network in Canada that aired the segment. I'd love to see it.

We are seeing the beginning of our own State sponsored and run news agency. TASS (Telegrafnoye Agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyusza) now known as Information Telegraph Agency of Russia.

This was posted on drudge-

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment

Thanks for the link!

A lot of people think it's perfectly fine to treat other people like animals instead of people. They think it's fine to imprison, or in some cases even kill people without due process. Just one more way this country is going to hell.

GTHOH 🤣

Did you miss Russiagate?
Did you miss Russia hoax #2?
Did you miss Russia hoax #3?
Did you sleep through the COVID era?
... demonizing anyone that implied the (truth) lab leak?
... demonizing anyone with any question about vaccine efficacy?
Did you miss the Biden admin b*tch-slapping all social media into compliance?
Did you miss Hunter's laptop?
What about Joe's dementia?
Do you realize all of the above are irrefutable FACTS??

NOW you want to preach about "State Media"?

It appears there are some things you didn't hear.................

It is a confirmed conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies and bipartisan congressional investigations that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The interference was a "sweeping and systematic" effort ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin with the goals of undermining faith in the U.S. democratic process, harming Hillary Clinton's candidacy, and helping Donald Trump's election chances.

Guliani who was working with the trump campaign in 2016 held a meeting with Russian operatives. This was the reason the "trump campaign", not the lie that it was trump himself, was investigated to have possible ties with Russia.

The only "pressure" placed on social media was to stop spreading conspiracy theories and crazy ideas for Covid cures like trump did to prevent more deaths.

It was not proven that Covid came from a lab leak. It's all speculative from both sides.

Your threshold for facts appears to be very low.

I wish I could hit like. The state-run media is on the left and the lies they spread are believed by the weak minded see post above mine.

That's because you are gullible.

It is a confirmed conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies and bipartisan congressional investigations that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The interference was a "sweeping and systematic" effort ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin with the goals of undermining faith in the U.S. democratic process, harming Hillary Clinton's candidacy, and helping Donald Trump's election chances.

Guliani who was working with the trump campaign in 2016 held a meeting with Russian operatives. This was the reason the "trump campaign", not the lie that it was trump himself, was investigated to have possible ties with Russia.

The only "pressure" placed on social media was to stop spreading conspiracy theories and crazy ideas for Covid cures like trump did to prevent more deaths.

Russia was a hoax. The whole thing spawned from the Steele Dosier which was illegal to begin with.

So the FACT that the bipartisan congressional investigations found that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is a hoax? According to who, trump and those whop believe everything he says blindly? You do realize bipartisan means it was found to be true by members of both parties, right? What possible evidence could you have that they were wrong?

Are you saying that Guliani who was working with the trump campaign having a meeting with known Russian operatives wasn't the cause for the part of the investigation looking into any possible involvement by the "trump campaign"? Are you trying to say the investigation wasn't done on the trump campaign but rather trump the individual?

Where has it ever been determined that the Steele dossier illegal?

Do you just puke up words based on your feelings that have no basis in facts?

You sound like a snowflake.

RussiaGate: Someone reported it from Overseas and it was picked up... That is just reporting

There was not Russia Hoax 2 o 3 your just making ship up.

Are you gonna try to tell the families of over a million dead that it was a HOAX like Trump and his idiot cronies tried to do.. I bet you swallowed bleach and shined a light up your ass to kill the germs....

The Lab Leak was a Trump thing.. Instead of trying to find a solution, he wanted to place blame... The news reported it...

in terms of Efficacy, what is it you want the news to report. Important agencies within our government and other governments recommended remedies or solutions..., with hundreds dying every freakin day, what did you expect

Social Media needed bitch slapped.. And it does again...

What about Trumps Dementia?

I think I just showed where they are no irrefutable.....


Wanna tell me why 60 minutes pulled that report?

Wanna tell me why an aquisition was approved of a major network only with Trumps approval, wanna explain why anyone that speaks out against trump is suddenly beat on by this Adminstration

Don't give me any [censored] about State TV until you watch something other than FOX or Newsone....

Why are people being fired... Respected journalists, because they won't step in line with the NEW CBS power team.

He'll just dance around the fact that Trump was called a Russian asset and the media tried to sell us on Trump's Russian collusion for three years straight. Every day, night and in between. ALL of which was found to be false in the investigation. The media sold it as FACT that whole time.

And as you probably know, Guliani had NOTHING to do with Trump's campaign and NEVER met with "Russian operatives. That's 1000% made-up b.s. I suspect he knows that as well, but is never opposed to a well-placed lie.

And yeah, the last lie ignores the fact that NO social media companies allowed discussion of the Crackhead's laptop. All posted links were deleted and the NY Times had their account locked. 50+ intel officials signed their names in blood that it was "Russian disinformation" and then three years later simply said it was a "mistake". Their lies helped convince media they should sequester what turned out to be the 100% truth.

I won't even get deep into the COVID b.s. as it makes wimpy people pee their pants; as evidence by Tweedle's post ^ acting like I called COVID itself a hoax. Still cracks me up that people that consider themselves intelligent adults don't understand (read: refuse to admit) that Coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan -- came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology -- where they were studying Coronavirus and how it could be more easily transmitted to humans. 🤣I suspect these same people would blame a thunderstorm on wet umbrellas.

So, on one hand, we're expected to believe that Russin bots "influenced" the election to a degree that decided the winner, but the FBI creating Russia hoax #2, with Hunter's laptop and the Biden Crime Family, had no effect on the election.

Problem is, nobody does, not even the blind supporters. As we saw at the polls in 2024, Americans are NOT that stupid and are DONE with the b.s.