In an email to her colleagues, Sharyn Alfonsi said that CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss spiked a story about the Trump administration and El Salvador prisons for political reasons.
Another nail in the coffin of press freedom in the U.S. This beats the Pentagon press corps debacle. At least there, the press refused to be tools. Ms. Weiss is obviously beholden to her corporate overlords and has few, if any, journalistic ethics. Refusing to meet with the correspondents is very telling.
This beyond disgusting!!! It makes me sick to my stomach 🤢🤮thinking what is happening in the US, and the chilling of truthful coverage and speech. That is only the tip of a mountain of all of the horrific things happening in the US, and I fear that it will take a long time to build a better future for you. However never stop striving to defeat this evil regime and the people cheering it on. The U.S. have now become a dangerous laughingstock in the rest of the world, and it will take a long time for you to become a respected country again but it can be done.
Take care everyone and stay safe, with love from a Swede in Australia ❤️♥️❤️
This situation shows exactly why so many people around the world are losing trust in Western media and worrying about the future of real press freedom in the U.S. When powerful corporations and political interests can quietly bury inconvenient stories, it sends a clear message that truth is negotiable and dissenting voices are expendable.
Independent journalism and open debate are essential if the U.S. ever wants to rebuild credibility and respect on the world stage, and that will only happen if people keep pushing back and supporting platforms that refuse to be controlled. In the meantime, many are turning to alternative spaces and even international platforms for news, connection, and a bit of escape from this grim reality, including entertainment and betting sites like https://1xbet-au.online/.
Laughing at the pearl clutching comments above. CBS is now in more thoughtful hands than it's been for a while. The stories about CBS caving in and killing the story are utter bullshit - i.e. bad reporting - for clickbait $$, Weiss-bashing, laziness, written by AI or whatever.
Do better.
Here's Weiss's memo. Judge for yourself.
Hi all,
I’m writing with specific guidance on what I’d like for us to do to advance the CECOT story. I know you’d all like to see this run as soon as possible; I feel the same way. But if we run the piece as is, we’d be doing our viewers a disservice.
• Last month many outlets, most notably The New York Times, exposed the horrific conditions at CECOT. Our story presents more of these powerful testimonies—and putting those accounts into the public record is valuable in and of itself. But if we’re going to run another story about a topic that has by now been much-covered we need to advance it. Among the ways to do so: does anyone in the administration or anyone prominent who defended the use of the Alien Enemies Act now regret it in light of what these Venezuelans endured at CECOT? That’s a question I’d like to see asked and answered.
• At present, we do not present the administration’s argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT. What we have is Karoline Leavitt’s soundbite claiming they are evildoers in America (rapists, murderers, etc.). But isn’t there much more to ask in light of the torture that we are revealing? Tom Homan and Stephen Miller don’t tend to be shy. I realize we’ve emailed the DHS spox, but we need to push much harder to get these principals on the record.
• The data we present paints an incongruent picture. Of the 252 Venezuelans sent to CECOT, we say nearly half have no criminal histories. In other words, more than half do have criminal histories. We should spend a beat explaining this. We then say that only 8 of the 252 have been sentenced in America for violent offenses. But wha about charged? My point is that we should include as much as we can possibly know and understand about these individuals.
• Secretary Noem’s trip to CECOT. We report that she took pictures and video there with MS-13 gang members, not TdA members, with no comment from her or her staff about what her goal on that trip was, or what she saw there, or if she had or has concerns about the treatment of detainees like the ones in our piece. I also think that the ensuing analysis from the Berkeley students is strange. The pictures are alarming; we should include them. But what does the analysis add?
• We need to do a better job of explaining the legal rationale by which the administration detained and deported these 252 Venezuelans to CECOT. It’s not as simple as Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act and being able to deport them immediately. And that isn’t the administration’s argument. The admin has argued in court that detainees are due “judicial review”—and we should explain this, with a voice arguing that Trump is exceeding his authority under the relevant statute, and another arguing that he’s operating within the bounds of his authority. There’s a genuine debate here. If we cut down Kristi Noem analysis we’d have the time.
My general view here is that we do our viewers the best service by presenting them with the full context they need to assess the story. In other words, I believe we need to do more reporting here.
I am eager and available to help. I tracked down cell numbers for Homan and Miller and sent those along. Please let me know how I can support you.
Personally I’m glad to see this. Weiss has proven herself with the Free Press. CBS on the other hand has come under huge scrutiny and it’s her job to restore editorial standards come hell or high water. Being at the top is lonely and she knows it and she is making the right decision anyway. Bravo.
Another nail in the coffin of press freedom in the U.S. This beats the Pentagon press corps debacle. At least there, the press refused to be tools. Ms. Weiss is obviously beholden to her corporate overlords and has few, if any, journalistic ethics. Refusing to meet with the correspondents is very telling.
The biased fake reporters' days are numbered.
This beyond disgusting!!! It makes me sick to my stomach 🤢🤮thinking what is happening in the US, and the chilling of truthful coverage and speech. That is only the tip of a mountain of all of the horrific things happening in the US, and I fear that it will take a long time to build a better future for you. However never stop striving to defeat this evil regime and the people cheering it on. The U.S. have now become a dangerous laughingstock in the rest of the world, and it will take a long time for you to become a respected country again but it can be done.
Take care everyone and stay safe, with love from a Swede in Australia ❤️♥️❤️
This situation shows exactly why so many people around the world are losing trust in Western media and worrying about the future of real press freedom in the U.S. When powerful corporations and political interests can quietly bury inconvenient stories, it sends a clear message that truth is negotiable and dissenting voices are expendable.
Independent journalism and open debate are essential if the U.S. ever wants to rebuild credibility and respect on the world stage, and that will only happen if people keep pushing back and supporting platforms that refuse to be controlled. In the meantime, many are turning to alternative spaces and even international platforms for news, connection, and a bit of escape from this grim reality, including entertainment and betting sites like https://1xbet-au.online/.
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You must be one of the globalist fools supporting the conversion to Swedistan.
meh
The story was spiked because it was a typical lib tds piece- and now the biased & propagandist reporters are throwing a hissy fit.
You voted for a rapist, your opinion carries zero weight and you clearly don't care about facts or the law.
In other news, water is wet….
Laughing at the pearl clutching comments above. CBS is now in more thoughtful hands than it's been for a while. The stories about CBS caving in and killing the story are utter bullshit - i.e. bad reporting - for clickbait $$, Weiss-bashing, laziness, written by AI or whatever.
Do better.
Here's Weiss's memo. Judge for yourself.
Hi all,
I’m writing with specific guidance on what I’d like for us to do to advance the CECOT story. I know you’d all like to see this run as soon as possible; I feel the same way. But if we run the piece as is, we’d be doing our viewers a disservice.
• Last month many outlets, most notably The New York Times, exposed the horrific conditions at CECOT. Our story presents more of these powerful testimonies—and putting those accounts into the public record is valuable in and of itself. But if we’re going to run another story about a topic that has by now been much-covered we need to advance it. Among the ways to do so: does anyone in the administration or anyone prominent who defended the use of the Alien Enemies Act now regret it in light of what these Venezuelans endured at CECOT? That’s a question I’d like to see asked and answered.
• At present, we do not present the administration’s argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT. What we have is Karoline Leavitt’s soundbite claiming they are evildoers in America (rapists, murderers, etc.). But isn’t there much more to ask in light of the torture that we are revealing? Tom Homan and Stephen Miller don’t tend to be shy. I realize we’ve emailed the DHS spox, but we need to push much harder to get these principals on the record.
• The data we present paints an incongruent picture. Of the 252 Venezuelans sent to CECOT, we say nearly half have no criminal histories. In other words, more than half do have criminal histories. We should spend a beat explaining this. We then say that only 8 of the 252 have been sentenced in America for violent offenses. But wha about charged? My point is that we should include as much as we can possibly know and understand about these individuals.
• Secretary Noem’s trip to CECOT. We report that she took pictures and video there with MS-13 gang members, not TdA members, with no comment from her or her staff about what her goal on that trip was, or what she saw there, or if she had or has concerns about the treatment of detainees like the ones in our piece. I also think that the ensuing analysis from the Berkeley students is strange. The pictures are alarming; we should include them. But what does the analysis add?
• We need to do a better job of explaining the legal rationale by which the administration detained and deported these 252 Venezuelans to CECOT. It’s not as simple as Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act and being able to deport them immediately. And that isn’t the administration’s argument. The admin has argued in court that detainees are due “judicial review”—and we should explain this, with a voice arguing that Trump is exceeding his authority under the relevant statute, and another arguing that he’s operating within the bounds of his authority. There’s a genuine debate here. If we cut down Kristi Noem analysis we’d have the time.
My general view here is that we do our viewers the best service by presenting them with the full context they need to assess the story. In other words, I believe we need to do more reporting here.
I am eager and available to help. I tracked down cell numbers for Homan and Miller and sent those along. Please let me know how I can support you.
Yours,
Bari
No shit
The OP could use some additional reporting skills. Respectfully.
Inconceivable!!
I wish the segment could be posted on here? YouTube? Where?
A shameful display of journalistic capture and a lack of integrity. Thank you for covering it.
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The only reason I watch CBS is 60 minutes. I'd like to see the whole team walk off. I have.
Personally I’m glad to see this. Weiss has proven herself with the Free Press. CBS on the other hand has come under huge scrutiny and it’s her job to restore editorial standards come hell or high water. Being at the top is lonely and she knows it and she is making the right decision anyway. Bravo.
Didn't Scott Pellet just say the new owners haven't interfered with 60 Minutes? I guess he's theast to find out. 🤡