Veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher has accused CBS’s new MAGA-curious boss of pulling a 60 Minutes episode to appease President Trump.
Bari Weiss intervened over a contentious story on the Terrorism Confinement Center, a notorious El Salvador megaprison that houses deportees kicked out of the U.S. In a statement, Weiss suggested that the piece needed more work before it reached the standards her new regime requires. Her involvement, however, might have initiated a staff mutiny, with employees threatening to walk.
Swisher has suggested the standards cited by Weiss are actually designed to please the president. “Putting a powerparched non-journalist—who has zero experience in investigative reporting—in charge of real reporters usually ends like this: ‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political,’" she wrote on Threads.
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