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'60 Minutes' story shelved by Bari Weiss streamed in Canada — and instantly spread across the web
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss decided to shelve a planned “60 Minutes” story titled “Inside CECOT,” creating an uproar inside CBS, but the report has reached a worldwide audience anyway.
Miller got worked up over what he called a staff "revolt" at CBS over the dropping of a "60 Minutes" segment that was critical of the Trump administration.
CBS News anchor Jericka Duncan was put in the awkward position of covering her new boss Bari Weiss’ shocking eleventh-hour decision to hold a 60 Minutes report. Duncan, a veteran CBS anchor, found herself on Monday night’s CBS Evening News explaining how Weiss pulled a report on the grisly conditions inside an El Salvador megaprison used to detain Venezuelan men deported by Donald Trump.
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss defended her decision to delay a "60 Minutes" CECOT segment in remarks to staffers, saying it wasn't ready and didn't advance the story.
CBS News abruptly removed the segment three hours before the broadcast. In the email, which was also posted in full on X by CNN Media Analyst Brian Stelter, Alfonsi wrote that the team had asked Weiss to discuss her last-minute call,