CBS’ new head honcho Bari Weiss nixed a 60 Minutes segment about Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to what the program called a “brutal” prison in El Salvador (CECOT), which was due to air in three hours.
The New York Times is reporting that Weiss pulled it because she wanted many changes to the story.
Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported the segment, rejected that criticism in a private note to CBS colleagues on Sunday, in which she accused CBS News of pulling the segment for “political” reasons.“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” Ms. Alfonsi wrote in the note, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times. “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.”
