The 60 Minutes correspondent responsible for a shelved report about a notorious jail used to house Trump deportees has blamed the decision on a culture of “corporate meddling and editorial fear” in the CBS newsroom.
Sharyn Alfonsi’s report on El Salvador’s CECOT megaprison was originally due to air in December but was abruptly pulled by CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, who said the segment needed input from Trump administration officials.
In a leaked memo to her colleagues at the time, Alfonsi defended the segment. “Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” she wrote. “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.”
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