Paramount hired Bari Weiss, a pro-Trump zampolit, to run CBS News. The day before it was due to air, she killed a story about CECOT, the notorious prison that Trump and Noem sent deportees to. Her bullshit excuse was that it needed "additional reporting." The piece had been chopped through the lawyers, the fact-checkers, the editors and both DHS and the White House had been offered a chance to comment and declined. But Weiss wants Discount Goebbels to make an on-camera comment and she'll hold the piece for him, and presumably kill it if he refuses.
The piece makes the Orange Sundowner and the Puppy-Slayer look bad. Remember that ICE Barbie had been happy to pose for a selfie in front of a cage holding men at that prison, they were so, so proud that it's a brutal prison, but now they're shying away from a piece about how bad the prison is.
Stories have run forever in press, and now on the air, with a "no comment" or a refusal to comment. Not airing a piece unless an official makes an on-camera comment is handing the government a veto.
CBS paid millions in disguised bribes to Trump and now they're spiking stories that are unfavorable to him. Weiss is turning CBS News into Fox Lite.
Weiss has, in a short period of time, wrecked any reputation for excellence that CBS News once had. Any reporter there who can should leave that rortting, sinking ship before their honor is irrevocably stained.
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How long will she have her job? Or be demoted to pencil sharpener? Just as soon as TOFF calls her a piggy.
"Alfonsi said in a private note to her CBS colleagues on Sunday that the episode “was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. 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.”
Elsewhere in the note, Alfonsi said her team had requested comment from the White House, the state department and the Department of Homeland Security. “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” she said.
“We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.
“I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight,” she wrote.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/22/cbs-news-delays-60-minutes-segment-featuring-investigation-into-cecot-megaprison
If Sharyn Alfonsi could be trusted to be an unbiased journalist instead of a DNC propagandist, she might have a leg to stand on.
Remember her "Story" on DeSantis, which was so biased and so bad that even Democrats decried it.
She is even more biased than the Guardian.....
One can see the Canadian 60 minutes Cecot episode here: https://www.icloud.com/photos/#/icloudlinks/0849AcYNxaLZ8JgntXRIevYJw/0/
This Link seems to work better.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/12/22/2359672/-You-can-watch-the-spiked-60-Minutes-piece?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
The piece was reviewed by senior editors, lawyers, & fact-checkers. But don’t let the fax disturb your little Trumpy rant, B.
The Weiss Effect.
IF Sharyn Alfonsi could be trusted to be a RNC propagandist it would have
aired? Apparently She had a story that has facts in it and we can't allow
that... >end_sarc<
Walter Cronkite si spinning in his grave.
Eck!
Their incompetence, besides being grimly amusing, may be our salvation. Between this utterly failed attempt to spike this story and the (sort of) redacted (sort of) Epstein document release, I'm starting to have premonitions of enjoyment.
Well, B, that would also make Bari Weiss a liar because she explicitly stated that because Miller wouldn’t talk to 60 Minutes(not that Sharyn refused to have him on) both sides wouldn’t be represented and therefore the report couldn’t be aired.
If you’re gonna simp for one side, at least do them the honor of not blowing their cover, as you just did here.
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