CBS's MAGA-aligned boss gets blazing public putdown from own reporter
CBS's MAGA-allied new leader got a blazing public putdown from her own employee as the 60 Minutes reporter at the center of a pulled story let loose Thursday night.
Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi blamed the suppression of her report on El Salvador's CECOT megaprison to systemic problems within CBS News leadership. The last-minute scrapping of her investigation on the facility housing Trump deportees, originally scheduled for December, came as news Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss demanded input from Trump administration officials before it could run.
In an internal memo defending the segment, leaked after the show's cancellation in December, Alfonsi documented thorough editorial compliance. "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."...