CBS News’ delayed 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s CECOT prison spurred the equivalent of a “hostage standoff” between Bari Weiss and the correspondent who reported the story.
Weiss, the editor-in-chief, and correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi were at a weeks-long impasse over the segment, according to a report Wednesday in Puck.
Weiss, who halted the segment just before it was about to air last month, felt that it lacked “critical context” and an on-the-record comment from a Trump administration official. But Alfonsi, 53, stood by it.
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