From Showbiz411 yesterday, the egregios story of Bari Weiss yanking the plug on a major story:
Tonight, “60 Minutes” was supposed to air a controversial subject covered thoroughly in print this week.
The story was about Trump and something called CECOT — aka Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, the El Salvadoran prison where he was sending Venezuelans.
But now the newly conservative network has pulled the plug, announcing there will be no segment even though it was promoted. CBS says it will air sometime in the future. But it’s very rare for a “60 Minutes” piece to get axed right before showtime. This reeks of new CBS News editor in chief, conservative website owner Bari Weiss, who’s been given control of the department.
[…]This is all bad news as Weiss has cleared out the “Evening News” to install a puppet in Tony Doukopil. She’s getting ready to oust the anchors from “CBS Mornings.” Her vision of CBS News is a Fox News lite after not being able to hire that network’s Bret Baier.
CBS has erased all links to the segment on all social media. But they left behind this description on Paramount Plus:
