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CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss suggested the piece she'd held about CECOT wasn't yet fair or comprehensive in a memo to staffers on Wednesday.
Right now, the majority of Americans say they do not trust the press. It isn’t because they’re crazy,” Bari Weiss said. “To win back their trust, we have to work hard.
A social media user on Monday shared at least part of a “60 Minutes” segment about a prison in El Salvador—where the Trump administration sent hundreds of migrants—after CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss controversially blocked its release.
In a memo sent to CBS staff and signed by Bari Weiss, CBS News president Tom Cibrowski, and editors Charles Forelle and Adam Rubenstein, the editor-in-chief called on her journalists to “win back” the trust of the American people.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Tuesday urged CBS News to fire the producers of “60 Minutes” for launching a “revolt” against Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, who recently pulled a segment focused on Venezuelan men deported to the El Salvadoran CECOT prison.
The 60 Minutes correspondent who worked on the segment alleged in an internal email that pulling it from airing was “not an editorial decision, it is a political one."
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CBS didn't include White House statement about Angel Parents in CECOT segment on '60 Minutes'
The White House reportedly sent CBS a statement that was not included in a controversial "60 Minutes" segment pulled shortly before it was set to air on Sunday.
The final 60 Minutes segment did not include a statement from a White House spokesperson, but did include a clip of Karoline Leavitt.
CBS pulled a "60 Minutes" segment hours before it was set to air on Dec. 21, a move that has apparently sparked backlash from its correspondent. The segment was set to feature the notorious El Salvador prison CECOT.
CBS said it pulled its '60 Minutes' report on the CECOT prison in El Salvador because it needed "additional reporting."
CNN's Brian Stelter reported that Bari Weiss "got personally involved" with "60 Minutes" segments focused on politics after President Donald Trump ripped the network's new owners over the newsmagazine's interview with his once-close ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).