The crisis at 60 Minutes is not new. America’s most-watched news program is under attack from Donald Trump after the network revealed the truth about why Trump didn’t show up to be interviewed during the 2024 election.
Trump launched a fake defamation lawsuit against 60 Minutes and CBS News. Paramount settled the lawsuit because it wanted approval for its merger with Skydance, led by Trump allies the Ellisons. After taking over CBS, the Ellisons named Trump ally Bari Weiss as president of CBS News.
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It was only a matter of time before Weiss carried out Trump’s orders and interfered with 60 Minutes, and finally, when the show featured a segment about Trump deporting immigrants to a brutal El Salvador prison, the censorship became real.
CNN reported:
Over the weekend, Weiss threw a tantrum on “60 Minutes” by sidelining Sharyn Alfonsi’s report on Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
Alfonsi said in an internal memo that “the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship.” Weiss, who reports directly to Paramount CEO David Ellison, responded by saying the story was “not ready.”
Weiss also said in a statement: “I look forward to releasing this important piece when it is ready. »
What Weiss meant by “not ready” was that the article did not contain an interview with a senior Trump administration official.
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