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The CECOT segment from 60 Minutes, pulled by Bari Weiss, was aired in Canada via an app owned by Global Television, which airs 60 Minutes in the country — The “60 Minutes” segment pulled from air by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss did not include new comments from Trump administration officials …
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Allison Gill / The Breakdown: WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
Ethan Shanfeld / Variety: ‘60 Minutes’ Report Yanked by Bari Weiss Leaks Online After It Was Accidentally Streamed on Canadian TV App
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Spiked ‘60 Minutes’ Segment Spreads Online After Canadian TV Network Posts Unedited Episode
Michael Luciano / Mediaite: Here's the ‘60 Minutes’ Segment That Bari Weiss Spiked
Corbin Bolies / The Wrap: Scrapped ‘60 Minutes’ Segment Streamed in Canada By Mistake
Brian Stelter / CNN: ‘60 Minutes’ story shelved by Bari Weiss streamed in Canada — and instantly spread across the web
Adrian Morrow / Globe and Mail: 60 Minutes segment cancelled by CBS was available on Global TV website
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast: CBS Boss' ‘60 Minutes’ Intervention Backfires as Episode Leaks
Jason Weisberger / Boing Boing: That cancelled 60 Minutes piece is up on Canadian TV
@amy_siskind: Abject failure backfiring. Don't just blame Bari Weiss - this is also David Ellison, he and his dad have sold their souls.
Charlotte Clymer / @cmclymer: Bari Weiss is so incompetent at leading CBS News that her efforts at fully suppressing the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT was foiled because she wasn't aware (or forgot) that the broadcast package including that segment was distributed via a streaming app for broadcast in Canada.
Ian Bremmer / @ianbremmer: what if the cbs 60 minutes decision is a canny play for canada marketshare
@keeptherepublic.bsky.social: So, we are now getting to view an investigative journalism piece about the actions of our own government, that was stopped due to the political pressure from our own government, because it is being leaked by another country. Canada saw us blinking three times and picked up our distress signal.
Eoin Higgins / eoin higgins on YouTube: CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
David Ehrlich / @davidehrlich: each new Bari Weiss humiliation event makes me stronger
Duane Bratt / @duanebratt: Inside CECOT (the 60 Minutes segment that was spiked yesterday) is available on Global TV app. It must have been delivered before the story was blocked. Watching it now. [image]
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick / @reichlinmelnick: WOW. Here is the link to the 60 Minutes CECOT story that they don't want you to watch. It was uploaded to Canadian TV seemingly by accident and was downloaded before being taken down.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Yes, this is real. Yes, it's astonishing. Global TV, which airs 60 Minutes in Canada, uploaded the original version of Sunday's episode, including the Sharyn Alfonsi segment that Bari Weiss shelved. And now people all across the internet are watching the segment.
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Internal email: 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi told staffers Bari Weiss pulled the CECOT segment after the Trump administration refused an interview — The segment on the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador's CECOT prison was postponed after the Trump administration refused to grant the network an interview.
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Michael Calderone / The Wrap: Bari Weiss Is Eroding Fragile Trust at CBS News
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: CBS News Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment; Correspondent Calls Decision Political
Fox News: Who is Sharyn Alfonsi? ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent is alleging political interference in her story on CECOT
David Gilmour / Mediaite: READ: 60 Minutes Correspondent Slams Bari Weiss's ‘Political Decision’ to Axe Her Trump Deportations Report in Stunning Internal Memo
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Here's the text of Sharyn Alfonsi's memo about “corporate censorship” and a “betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism:” News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Tonight Jane Fonda and the Committee for the First Amendment issued this statement asking: “Is Paramount, once again, kowtowing to appease the president, as its owner seeks administration approval to further expand his media empire with a hostile takeover of Warner Brothers [image]
Adam Schiff / @senadamschiff: For the first time in a generation, we have censorship of the press. Not because the government prohibits publication of offending material. But because the administration coerces and dangles corrupt incentives like help with billion-dollar mergers. And large corporations [image]
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Here's what Bari Weiss said on the CBS 9am call, per a source who transcribed it: “I want to say something about trust: our trust for each other and our trust with the public. The only newsroom I'm interested in running is one in which we are able to have contentious
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: NEW: At a somber ‘60 Minutes’ staff meeting today, Scott Pelley & others expressed frustration at Bari Weiss's handling of last night's canceled segment & management style. “It's not a part-time job,” Pelley said, referring to Weiss missing screenings of the segment, per sources
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband
Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: Bari Weiss Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Story in Latest CBS Controversy
Ross O'Keefe / Washington Examiner: Weiss pulled 60 Minutes story on Trump deportations because it didn't ‘advance the ball’
Max Fisher / @max_fisher: Her own stated reason for suppressing reporting about a government-sponsored, industrial-scale illegal torture program is that the reporting referenced the torture victims in accurate, neutral language rather than using a loaded and dehumanizing pejorative [image]
David Laufman / @davidlaufman.bsky.social: Once upon a time — and when it really counted — CBS News stood up to power. Now, it is an accomplice to censorship. — www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202...
Brian Schatz / @brianschatz: What is happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment and if executives think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism that might offend the Mad King they are about to learn a tough lesson. This is still America and we don't enjoy bullshit like this.
Jon Collins / @jcollins.bsky.social: The reporter said the decision handed the White House a “kill switch.” — “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.” — www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202...
John Johnson / Newser: CBS Chief Pulls 60 Minutes Segment on Deportations
Barbara Comstock / @barbaracomstock: Profiles in Courage
Zaid Jilani / @zaidjilani: From knowing her personally, she gets really frazzled under pressure and wants to always be popular which is starting to make me wonder if she will just buckle and quit if things keep going poorly
Jacob Rubashkin / @jacobrubashkin: Might have to start calling it the Weissand Effect [image]
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: Bari Weiss responds: “My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be. Holding stories that aren't ready for whatever reason—that they lack sufficient context, say, or that they are missing critical voices—happens every day in every newsroom. I look
Jacob Rubashkin / @jacobrubashkin: Not sure what this will ultimately accomplish for Weiss other than Streisand-effecting this story into the stratosphere when it eventually comes out.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: a veteran of “60 Minutes” >>>
Armen Keteyian / @armenketeyian: I contributed pieces to 60 for eight years, including several investigative in nature. The most they were screened was three times - the average rate. I never heard of even one screening five. I stand with Sharyn and 60 one thousand percent.
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story: Scott Pelley slams new CBS boss for canning 60 Minutes segment: ‘Not a part-time job’
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: I'm told there's a big managers meeting happening right now at CBS News right now dealing with the fallout from last night. Bari Weiss is apparently trying to convey that the CECOT story isn't dead...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Update: ‘60 Minutes’ just yanked this segment two hours before it was supposed to air.
Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News: Journo Freaks Out After Bari Weiss Spikes ‘60 Minutes’ Segment On El Salvador Prison
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Earlier this month, after Trump blasted “60 Minutes” for interviewing Marjorie Taylor Greene, correspondents noticed a change behind the scenes. “Bari Weiss got personally involved,” specifically with stories about politics, a source at the program says. [video]
@taliaotg: edward r. murrow would want you to burn it down to destroy the threat that psychopath is to journalism.
Steven L. Taylor / OutsideTheBeltway: Bari Weiss Strikes
Senator Chris Van Hollen / @vanhollen.senate.gov: This is what we've been warning about. — Trump's attacks on the media are having their intended effect: increasingly compliant elements of the corporate media are unwilling or afraid to take him on — which poses a direct threat to a free press.
Daniel Chomsky / @danielchomsky.bsky.social: Billionaires buy media outlets so that they can provide material support to the effort to send people to foreign death camps. — www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202...
Adam Johnson / @adamjohnsonchi: Remembering when Ellison “bought” Free Press and to maintain the fiction it was a savvy business decision rather him turning CBS News into an ideological play toy everyone had to refer to Bari Weiss as a “reporter” and FP as a “news outlet” despite them clearly never being either
Peter Hamby / @peterhamby: If it's even possible to put the politics aside here, the whole thing is just a colossal management blunder by Bari — a self-styled visionary — and a catastrophic misreading of the company, its employee base and how TV news operates
Brian Schatz / @brianschatz: They were never free speech warriors - they just didn't like being out of power.
Monica Showalter / American Thinker: Bari Weiss does her job at CBS and the left has a cow
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Sometimes Donald Trump actively meddles with media companies - a reality we've already gotten numb to in the last year. Sometimes the *idea* of Trump is enough to mess with media companies. Which bring us to Bari Weiss and the Ellisons. From me: https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... [image]
Anna Bower / @annabower: “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.” https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
Conor Friedersdorf / @conor64: Good news: if you want to know what happened in CECOT to the Venezuelans the United States paid to imprison there, you need not wait for the 60 Minutes story to be ready. You can simply read this: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal / @jayapal.house.gov: Journalists at CBS (owned by a pro-Trump billionaire) put together a story on how this admin sent immigrants to be tortured at CECOT — then CBS leadership killed it. — Our democracy depends on a free press that can do its job without censorship. www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202...
Tom Harrington / @cbctom: This statement from the 60 Minutes producer on tonight's episode is explosive. I can tell you from experience, an uncooperative subject - whether government or corporate - does not and should not negate a story. This is an important moment for American journalism.
Aaron Parnas / @aaronparnas: Bari Weiss and CBS killed a 60 Minutes segment documenting the torture and brutality of the CECOT terrorism facility. It's imperative everyone knows what the migrants went through. Share this Human Rights Watch report everywhere. https://www.hrw.org/...
Krystal Ball / @krystalball: Absolutely disgraceful. A betrayal of the journalists that worked on this piece, and a betrayal of the American people who deserve to know what this regime is doing in their name.
Scott Nover / @scottnover: CBS News postponed a “60 Minutes” segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a “kill switch.” with @liamjscott https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ryan Grim / @ryangrim: Reminder that Bari Weiss has never been a journalist ever — she has spent her short career on the opinion side only, and before that was a college kid trying to get Palestinians teachers fired. So of course she sees a 60 Minutes episode she doesn't like and just spikes it
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla.bsky.social: 60 MINUTES EXEC PROD.: “.. We pushed back, we defended our story, but she wanted changes, and I ultimately had to comply.” — @scottnover.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com $PSKY — www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202... [image]
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: MORE: Tanya Simon, ‘60’ executive producer, said that she stands “100 percent” behind Sharyn Alfonsi & the story. Simon also pledged to uphold the show's journalistic standards, even if the show comes under more oversight from CBS News management than in the past.
Ryan Grim / @ryangrim: The next time Bari Weiss assigns a story about October 7, I wonder if the reporter will push back and say, sorry, that's old news, we can't do it without Hamas on camera
Jill Geisler / @jillgeisler: Respected, ethical editors protect their journalism and journalists from political or corporate interference and retribution.
Rachel Maddow / @maddow.bsky.social: “What's happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment and if execs think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism that might offend the Mad King they are about to learn a tough lesson. This is still America and we don't enjoy bullshit like this.” — www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202...
Wajahat Ali / @wajahatali: The Ellisons and Bari Weiss killed 60 Minutes and CBS News. It's done. Just a fancier version of Newsmax now. What a sad end. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Aaron Parnas / The Parnas Perspective: CBS Cancels 60 Minutes Episode to Prevent White House Backlash and Epstein Survivors Blast Justice Department
Ted Johnson / @tedstew: At a press conference the day that the Paramount-Skydance deal closed, Oliver Darcy asked David Ellison multiple times whether anyone at corporate level would be meddling or overseeing 60 Minutes. Ellison never gave a direct answer.
Sarah McBride / @sarahemcbride: Really putting the “free” in The Free Press.
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: I guess a lot can change in a week
Julianne McShane / @juliannemcshane.bsky.social: “If the standard for airing a story becomes ‘the government must agree to be interviewed,’ then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi wrote.
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen.bsky.social: Discuss: — “The segment was pulled three hours before the broadcast, a highly unusual last-minute change. The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b... [image]
Matt Shuham / @mattshuham.bsky.social: “60 Minutes” Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi: — >"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." — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b... …
Mary Anne Franks / @maryannefranks.bsky.social: CECOT segment correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi: Bari Weiss giving the government a “kill switch” for stories they don't like transforms 60 Minutes from an “investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202...
Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow.bsky.social: The greatest examples of investigative journalism don't adhere to balance. — They center ethically upon accuracy and veracity. — There's a difference. — Ida Tarbell never interviewed John D. Rockefeller for “The History of the Standard Oil Company.” — www.wsj.com/business/med...
Lincoln Michel / @thelincoln.bsky.social: Bari Weiss is best understood as an anti-speech activist on behalf of power. This is through line from her start trying to get professors fired for critiquing Israel to running interference for Elon Musk to now working as regime censor for Trump at CBS www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202...
Carolina A. Miranda / @cmonstah.bsky.social: Predictable, yet nonetheless an absolute disgrace. — www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202...
Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow.bsky.social: It's both nonsensical and counterproductive to interfere with the most successful and profitable news broadcast in American history. — Especially over an accurate story that's been vetted and approved by network attorneys and standards and practices. — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn.bsky.social: Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran CBS news reporter who led the story: “I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight.” — The reality is that she is much more likely to be fired than Weiss, and that should tell you all you need to know about CBS now. [image]
John Gramlich / @johngramlich.bsky.social: “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,” Alfonsi wrote.
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn.bsky.social: Two days before the show was to air, Weiss suggested revamping it, including adding interviews of Stephen Miller, whose personal contact information she has (of course). Also objected to calling migrants migrants. [image]
Frederick Deknatel / @freddydeknatel.bsky.social: 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi : “We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.”
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin.bsky.social: Here's a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn't comment. — “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” — wapo.st/3YL4T3D
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter.bsky.social: In an internal memo, seen by CNN, Sharyn Alfonsi predicted that “the public will correctly identify this” as corporate censorship. WaPo has more from Alfonsi here >>>
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn.bsky.social: The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a “political” decision. — “The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment.” — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b... [embedded post]
Ana Marie Cox / @anamariecox.bsky.social: As others have pointed out: Trump was selling MERCH for this place not that long ago. Almost like public pressure has shifted their sense of what they can get away with.
Ana Marie Cox / @anamariecox.bsky.social: So Bari Weiss's first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
Charlotte Clymer / @charlotteclymer.bsky.social: If you're a staffer at 60 Minutes who worked on that CECOT segment that got yanked by Bari Weiss at the last minute, figure out a way to leak it. Not saying it's an easy decision or there won't be consequences, but ask yourself why you got into journalism in the first place.
Charlotte Clymer / @charlotteclymer.bsky.social: Hate to say it, but you should no longer trust anything from CBS News. I'm sure there are great reporters there trying to do honest work, but how can we know anymore? If they're willing to kill a Trump-critical 60 Minutes segment at the order of Bari Weiss, it's been over.
Siddharth Cavale / Reuters: CBS postpones ‘60 Minutes’ report on El Salvador's CECOT prison
Dave Itzkoff / @ditzkoff.bsky.social: Bari Weiss is really bad at her job, until you realize it's her job to be really bad at her job, in which case she is excellent at her job [embedded post]
Hamilton Nolan / @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: It's easy to be cynical about the media but entire GENERATIONS of mostly not-famous journalists at places like CBS and the WaPo spent their whole careers doing the work that created the credibility those places had which made them important enough for self-serving billionaires to decide to ruin them
Hamilton Nolan / @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed. [embedded post]
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Email: Sharyn Alfonsi says CBS' decision was “not an editorial decision, it is a political one” and “we have effectively” handed the government a “kill switch” — Just a day and a half before it was set to be broadcast, new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled …
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Parker Molloy / The Present Age: The Kill Switch — In 1995, 60 Minutes made a decision that nearly destroyed the program.
Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+: Today in Politics, Bulletin 276. 12/22/25
Ryan Haas / @ryanjhaas.bsky.social: When the opinion and business-degreed class are running your newsroom instead of actual journalists.
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin.bsky.social: “We need to be able to get the principals on the record” doesn't apply to Levi's, Smith College or Washington University. — What's more troubling is that Weiss apparently didn't even try to get the other side. If she had and they refused to talk, that'd be in the stories — www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g... …
Nolan Hicks / @ndhapple.bsky.social: Blowing up a broadcast on a Saturday because ‘the Times covered it’ is such a tell of terrible management, and of misunderstanding the the giant gulf between Times readership and 60 Minutes viewership, and not getting that print and TV stories are very different beasts — www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g... …
Eric Deggans / @edeggans.bsky.social: Interesting to see someone w/no experience in TV news pull a 60 Minutes story the correspondent said was vetted by lawyers and editors. Wonder if Weiss will ever say exactly why she pulled the story? Or if CBS News new ombudsman will somehow surface? https://loom.ly/SnYFb1w
@radiofreeflorida.bsky.social: CBS: We won't run a negative story about the Trump administration unless they comment on the record. — Trump Administration: No comment. — CBS: Awww, Jeeze. Guess we can't talk about them sending people to be tortured and possibly murdered. Sorry. Fair and balanced. — #RadioFreeAmerica
Peter Kafka / Business Insider: We don't know why Bari Weiss pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ story — here's why that matters
Jesse Thorn / @jessethorn.bsky.social: As always David Folkenflik at NPR has the story. www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Nick Arama / RedState: The Left Isn't Going to Like This: Bari Weiss Explains Decision to Pull ‘60 Minutes’ Illegal Alien Story
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social: CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story — Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration — 60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage — My NPR story — www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Corbin Bolies / The Wrap: Critics Blast CBS' Bari Weiss for Pulling ‘60 Minutes’ Report on Trump Deportations: ‘Government-Controlled TV’
Mark Sumner / @devilstower.bsky.social: The whole point of Weiss canceling the 60 Minutes was to be seen canceling the story. It's not about the content, it's about the signal this sends the White House. — The uproar is the goal. ...
Lauren Ashley Davis / @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social: The correspondent on the story, Sharyn Alfonsi, condemned the decision in an email to 60 Minutes colleagues on Sunday evening, saying she believed it was “not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” (The email was obtained by NPR and other news organizations.) — www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Alex Nguyen / Mother Jones: CBS Pulls “60 Minutes” Segment Critical of Trump's Deportation of Venezuelans
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: FWIW: Prior to all of the CBS/Paramount/deal mania drama, “60 Minutes” wasn't a news show audiences were rebuking. It's been the highest rated news program in the country for 50 consecutive seasons. If people thought it needed fixing, it wasn't the viewers https://www.axios.com/...
Barbara Kaskosz / @kaskosz.bsky.social: CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes investigative segment on abuses at CECOT. Weiss said the piece could not run without an on-the-record comment from a Trump administration official. The administration was asked for a comment but didn't respond. — www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Chuck Ross / The Washington Free Beacon: ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, Who Cried Foul Over Delayed Immigration Piece, Was Behind ‘Intentionally False’ Hit Piece on Ron DeSantis That Even Democrats Said Was Wrong
Doug P. / twitchy.com: Guy Benson Has a Reminder About the 60 Minutes Journo Who Said Bari Weiss Made a ‘Political Decision’
@casuallylucid.bsky.social: “Just a day and a half before it was set to be broadcast... Bari Weiss pulled a planned 60 Minutes investigative segment centering on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants last March.” — Oh how far they've fallen 😡
@stardustbluepr.com: Just a day and a half before it was set to be broadcast, new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a planned 60 Minutes investigative segment centering on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants last March.
Cate Martel / The Hill: Fallout over yanked ‘60 Minutes’ segment; Trump revisits taking over Greenland
Daniel Drezner / @dandrezner.bsky.social: “Weiss told colleagues this weekend the piece — planned for Sunday night's show — could not run without an on-the-record comment from a Trump administration official.” www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Sources: Bari Weiss asked 60 Minutes to add material to its CECOT piece, such as a Stephen Miller interview; Weiss says her job is to publish the “best” stories — Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, criticized the network's decision to remove her reporting from Sunday's edition of the show.
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Yashar Ali / The Reset: BREAKING: Here's the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don't Want You to See
Brian Stelter / CNN: CBS shelves ‘60 Minutes’ story on Trump deportees at the last minute: ‘People are threatening to quit,’ staffers say
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You're doomed
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Bari Weiss defends yanking ‘60 Minutes’ segment on controversial El Salvador prison: 'It wasn't ready'
Raquel Calhoun / The Wrap: ‘60 Minutes’ EP Says She ‘Ultimately Had to Comply’ to Bari Weiss' Choice to Shelve Deportation Segment
Ed Morrissey / HotAir: Monday's Final Word
Erin Maxwell / TV Insider: ‘60 Minutes’ Report Pulled by Bari Weiss Leaks Online
Trudy Ring / Advocate: All about the infamous CECOT prison — on which CBS's Bari Weiss pulled a story
Ted Johnson / Deadline: ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Slams CBS News Decision To Pull Segment On Trump Deportations, Says Move Was Political, Not Editorial
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money: Canadian network aired too-hot-for-Bari report
David Grossman / @davidgross_man: What a great boss Bari Weiss is. After castigating CBS staff for only reaching out to DHS for comment, not Tom Homan and Stephen Miller personally, she was able to helpfully track down their cell phone numbers!!! I wonder how she tracked down these numbers so quickly. [image]
Andrew Prokop / Vox: Is CBS News censoring 60 Minutes?
Alexander Smith / NBC News: CBS postpones ‘60 Minutes’ story on Trump deportees at the last minute
David Rovella / Bloomberg: The Latest Way the Rich Can Avoid Taxes
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher@threads.com: This is entirely to please Trump, who has voiced criticism of 60 Minutes under the new owners, who are the definition of rank amatuers, emphasis on rank. This Stephen Miller interview suggestion is idiotic in the context of this story — doing another piece with him later is fine, but to add him here after the administration declines to officially have comment is a suck up gimme.
Brian Niemietz / New York Daily News: Katie Couric calls CBS handling of ‘60 Minutes’ story a ‘disgrace’
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire: Bari Weiss Doesn't Care About Journalism
The Wrap: CBS News Insider on Bari Weiss' ‘60 Minutes’ Fumble: ‘Series of Unfortunate Events’ | Exclusive
Mekishana Pierre / Entertainment Weekly: 60 Minutes correspondent slams CBS for yanking Trump deportations segment, calls decision ‘political’
Dave Levitan / @davelevitan.bsky.social: Quietly savage bit of detail in the 60 minutes story — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b... [image]
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic: CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump
Zach Jewell / The Daily Wire: CBS News Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment On Notorious El Salvador Prison: ‘Needed Additional Reporting’
Liz Wolfe / Reason: Oil Tanker Seized
Alexander Karn / @xankarn@mastodon.online: Bari Weiss pulls CECOT report from 60 Minutes, apparently because the piece didn't include enough pro-gulag voices/perspectives. — “My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be. …
Atrios / Eschaton: Sharyn Alfonsi's Final Work Email
AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: Larry Ellison Revives Paramounts' Bid on Warner as His Son Hollows Out CBS News
Jordan Rubin / MS NOW: The brutality of El Salvador's CECOT prison isn't lost on judges holding the Trump administration accountable
Sister Toldjah / RedState: ‘Bubble-Dwelling’ Former NBC News Journo Proves the Point in Obtuse Rant About Media Distrust
Justmindy / twitchy.com: Leftists Lose It Over Bari Weiss's Sane Memo: ‘Just Add Context and Sources’ Triggers Total Meltdown
David Bauder / Associated Press: CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes piece on Trump deportation policy hours before air
Jeff Tiedrich / everyone is entitled to my own opinion: first they came for the white people, and I didn't speak out— because what in the stupidest fuck ever
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Bari Weiss faces blowback for spiking ‘60 Minutes’ segment: What to know
Elizabeth Spiers / The Nation: Bari Weiss's Counter-Journalistic Crusade Targets “60 Minutes”
Robert Reich: Farewell to “60 Minutes” — Once you begin surrendering to Trump, he always wants more.
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Our story freshly updated with new details inside CBS newsroom: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kevin Rothrock / @kevinrothrock.me: Things at CBS News under Bari Weiss are going exactly as you'd expect. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Dave Pell / NextDraft: On Our Watch — Tick ... tick ... tick... The iconic opening to 60 Minutes has long represented …
Melissa Koenig / Daily Mail: Veteran 60 Minutes journalist hits out after Trump deportation story is pulled just hours before airtime as news boss Bari Weiss addresses backlash
Nicole Charky-Chami / Raw Story: ‘Was that a pig I saw flying?’ Katie Miller wife mocked as she shades 60 Minutes reporter
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ: Bari Weiss Halts “60 Minutes” Hit Piece on Trump Over Sending Criminal Illegals to El Salvador, Saying Further Reporting and Context is Required; The Left Freaks Out
David Gilmour / Mediaite: Morning Joe Torches ‘Cosplaying’ Journalist Bari Weiss for ‘Poisoning the Well’ By Spiking 60 Minutes Story
Representative Jim McGovern / @repmcgovern.bsky.social: This is what happens when billionaires control the press. — Corporate media execs at @cbsnews.com are pulling punches to protect profits & make sure their next big merger gets approved. — This self-censorship is awful for journalism & terrible for democracy.
Scott Nover / @scottnover: Tanya Simon, the E.P. of “60 Minutes” told the show's staff she stood by the shelved segment but could not allay the concerns of the network's editor in chief, Bari Weiss. “She wanted changes, and I ultimately had to comply.” Updated w/ @liamjscott: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ross O'Keefe / Washington Examiner: 60 Minutes correspondent rips ‘political’ decision to pull segment on Trump deportations
Garrett Owen / Salon: “Bari Weiss spiked our story”: CBS yanks “60 Minutes” segment on Trump deportees at the last minute
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: CBS News Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment on Trump Deportation Detainees as Parent Paramount Attempts to Acquire WBD
Fox News: ‘60 Minutes’ reporter lashes out at Bari Weiss after segment on El Salvador prison yanked at last minute
Dean Baker / @deanbaker13: No one ever said that Bari Weiss knew shit about journalism, just about serving rich and powerful people, in which she is an expert.
Karl Bode / @karlbode.com: why it's almost as if billionaires hired Bari Weiss to enflame cultural divides, disorient the public, and undermine journalism in a bid to divide and distract the electorate from the actual causes of most U.S. dysfunction
The Independent: ‘Holy f***ing dumpster fire’: Bari Weiss sparks ‘revolt’ at ‘60 Minutes’ by spiking CECOT segment
Jason K. Morrell / Straight Arrow News: CBS pulls ‘60 Minutes’ deportation report after White House refuses interview
Nicole Silverio / The Daily Caller: Liberal Media In Complete Meltdown After Bari Weiss Cuts CECOT Segment From ‘60 Minutes’
William Kristol / The Bulwark: Trump and Co. Can't Keep Their Lies Straight
Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer.bsky.social: What kind of news organization holds news stories because the government officials credibly accused of grotesque human rights abuses refuse to comment on the record? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: Two weeks after a hopeful sign from ‘60 Minutes,’ Bari Weiss cancels a story and trashes the brand
Karl Bode / Techdirt: Bari Weiss Shows Her True Colors, Kills A 60 Minutes Story Critical Of The President's Concentration Camps
Todd Spangler / Variety: Bari Weiss Defends Pulling ‘60 Minutes’ Report on ‘Horrific Treatment’ of Detainees Sent by Trump White House to El Salvador Prison: ‘We Simply Need to Do More’
Chris Thompson / Defector: Bari Weiss Keeps CBS News Groveling At The Feet Of Donald Trump
Taiyler S. Mitchell / HuffPost: CBS News Abruptly Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment About Trump Admin Sending Immigrants To CECOT
Edith Olmsted / New Republic: 60 Minutes Staff in Uproar After CBS Kills Story on Trump Deportations
Kat Tenbarge / @kattenbarge.bsky.social: Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it's independent from the power it's supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can't have anything to do with those in power
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman.bsky.social: With this decision, CBS and Paramount deserve every bit of smoke and consumer backlash as ABC and Disney got for attempting to fire Jimmy Kimmel to appease Trump. — Corporations that censor journalists and media to kowtow to fascism deserve all our ire. Money is the only language they understand. …
Kim Masters / @lkimmasters@threads.com: Idiotic and sycophantic.
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher@threads.com: Putting a power parched non journalist — who has zero experience in investigative reporting — in charge of real reporters usually ends like this: ‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’ https://www.nytimes.com/...
@newsjennifer_schulze@threads.com: Sharyn Alfonsi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for 60 Minutes for 20 years. Before that she reported for ABC, CBS & local news outlets. If Alfonsi says her story was spiked by Bari Weiss for political reasons, that's exactly what happened. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michelangelo Signorile / @msignorile@threads.com: Bari Weiss censoring “60 Minutes”, protecting Trump and El Salvador's dictator. But she's such an amateur that it's all exposed, she's caught, as reporter's harsh letter goes public. CBS is crashing. Free link. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick.bsky.social: A reminder: Bari Weiss signed the Harper's Letter. [embedded post]
Benjamin Chambers / @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social: The “critical voice” that's missing, according to Weiss, is Stephen Miller
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick.bsky.social: Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick. [image]
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce.com: it's a skill you learn climbing the rungs and, well, these are rung jumpers
Matt Novak / @paleofuture.bsky.social: “'60 Minutes' segments are commonly screened several times before air, but five screenings is an unusually high number, the CBS sources said. — It is unclear when Weiss first viewed the story. But she has recently become personally involved in ‘60 Minutes’ stories about politics...” [embedded post]
Kim Masters / @kimmasters.bsky.social: “Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” Ms. Alfonsi wrote in the note “It is factually correct.” — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
@proptermalone.bsky.social: not to excuse Weiss who owns this but I'll be pretty surprised if there wasn't a nasty call to an Ellison making clear that if this ran they could kiss WB goodbye
Anil Dash / @anildash.com: Where those Harper's Letter folks at
@golikehellmachine.com: maintaining the fiction that cbs news would remain relatively objective under her leadership was a *lot* more important — to the admin, to cbs news, to david ellison and to bari weiss — than killing this story was, and it's incredibly funny she didn't know that [embedded post]
@kendrawrites.com: I'm not saying this to be snarky, but Bari doesn't actually know how a national newsdesk is run because when she was at NYT she was on opinion and the Free Press doesn't count because it was much smaller and explicitly propaganda. [embedded post]
Matt Ford / @mford.bsky.social: Yep. If I were in her position, I would've let this one slide since it was so far along and then killed future pieces before they got off the ground. Nobody's writing NYT articles about stuff that doesn't get past the brainstorming stage. [embedded post]
Andrew Lawrence / @ndrew.bsky.social: on second thought maybe it was a mistake to put obvious morons in charge of everything
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner.bsky.social: I know that nights like tonight can feel frustrating — and they are, in fact, bad — but, I also do think that nights like this show us how many people are still striving to do good journalism with accountability at its core. — And how clear it is when there are efforts to stop that journalism.
@mtsw.bsky.social: They fucked up by hiring Weiss, an incompetent mediocrity, however it is not actually difficult to hire the type of person who can do the thing Larry Ellison wants to do to CBS News. Not anyone can do it but there are dozens of guys who could and their identities are not secret.
@mtsw.bsky.social: I suspect that what's gonna happen is Bari Weiss will be quietly sidelined (if not fired) but the descent of CBS News into conservative propaganda will continue under whoever runs it next all the same because that's what the owner of the network wants.
Craig Calcaterra / @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social: “Reached on Sunday evening, Ms. Alfonsi said, ‘I refer all questions to Bari Weiss.’” — Fuck yeah — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Jeff Lazarus / @jlazarus.bsky.social: If you needed more evidence that Bari Weiss isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, the fact that she (a) personally spiked the story (b) in a way that left her fingerprints all over the decision (c) at the last possible minute, thus guaranteeing maximal exposure and blowback.
Jamelle / @jamellebouie.net: it really is something that no one affiliated or allied with trump seems to have any sense of how to use power with subtlety and finesse.
Dean Betz / @deanbetz.bsky.social: I'd be surprised if CBS News can ever restore its formerly high reputation after this amazingly amateurish fuck-up by Bari Weiss. — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Elizabeth Lopatto / @lopatto.bsky.social: as foretold by the prophesy [image]
Anna Bower / @annabower.bsky.social: I don't think Grynbaum is on here but someone please correct me if I'm wrong. — Here's his story for the Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Chad Loder / @chadloder.bsky.social: They don't care that the cover-ups are clumsy. Their goal isn't to take over the news, it's to destroy it. To destroy our sense-making capacity. To destroy truth.
@wooftom57.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b... We will be served more censorship and propaganda from Ellison-owned CBS and hack Bari Weiss. Turn that shit off. — Hope Colbert, Kimmel, Stewart, and news people— current and former broadcasters— leave and start a new news station independent of right-wing propaganda!
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn.bsky.social: Here is a gift link to the NYT article about Weiss killing a fact-checked story because it was not sympathetic enough to an presidential administration in the midst of deciding about another corporate merger that CBS's owners are trying to win. — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin.bsky.social: And here's a free link to the NYT piece on the 60 Minutes disaster. — Bari Weiss thinks CBS reporters can't get Stephen Miller to talk to them because they don't have his phone number. — And she doesn't know how to use a dictionary. — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b... [images]
Adam Serwer / @adamserwer.bsky.social: Censoring a story about the outsourced regime gulag is not consistent with freedom of speech. But it is consistent with the belief that “free speech” is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want.
Adam Serwer / @adamserwer.bsky.social: They were never defending freedom of speech. They were defending a right to monologue. The former cannot coexist with the latter.
@jbz@indieweb.social: ‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’ - The New York Times — ｢ The segment was pulled three hours before the broadcast, a highly unusual last-minute change. The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment. …
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
CBS postpones a 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador's CECOT prison, which houses people deported by the Trump administration, just hours before it was set to air — BE RIGHT BACK — The show announced a programming change just before its Sunday night timeslot.
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Edward Helmore / The Guardian: Outrage after CBS pulls 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador's Cecot prison
Marc Elias / Democracy Docket: “60 Minutes” Obeyed in Advance
Marco Foster / @marcofoster_: This is the now deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air tonight on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador that Donald Trump sent hundreds of migrants to. CBS is officially a mouthpiece for the Trump administration thanks to Bari Weiss [video]
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News: Judge orders Trump administration to file plan to return Venezuelans sent to El Salvador prison to U.S. or give them hearings
Norman Weiss / TV Tattle: 60 Minutes abruptly pulls report on Trump deportation of migrants to El Salvador mega-prison
Adam Cochran / @adamscochran: 60 Minutes is a crown jewel of journalistic integrity and quality. The fact that it's now under the thumb of Bari Weiss who is pulling pieces for political reasons, is a heinous betrayal of the 4th Estate. I hope the incredible team there can find ways to push back and continue
@kylekulinski: Bari Weiss just CENSORED AND BANNED a 60 Minutes episode exposing how Trump sent immigrants to be TORTURED AND RAPED in a concentration camp.
Peter Twinklage / @petertwinklage: a source inside CBS News tells me a move like this is “effectively unprecedented” in the history of 60 Minutes. 60 stories often take several weeks, if not MONTHS, to produce. the idea of killing a finished piece (that you've already been promoting) hours before air is insane
David Folkenflik / NPR: Bari Weiss halts ‘60 Minutes’ story, sparking an outrage
Kayla Cobb / The Wrap: Bari Weiss Tells ‘60 Minutes’ Staff She Pulled Deportation Story Because It ‘Did Not Advance the Ball’
Roger Friedman / Showbiz411: CBS Wakes Up to a House on Fire: Editor in Chief Bari Weiss Tries to Rationalize — But Fails — Decision to Pull “60 Minutes” Broadcast
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Here's the deleted trailer for the now-"delayed" segment. It's almost impressive how much damage Bari Weiss has done to CBS News in such a short period of time. Someone quickly schedule a prime-time Town Hall with Alan Dershowitz to rectify the harm: [video]
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: UPDATE: The “60 Minutes” segment on CECOT, which reflects very negatively on Trump administration, was fully ready and had been meticulously fact-checked and lawyered. The admin had declined to comment. Bari Weiss saw segment on Friday and, I'm told, decided to hold it.
Jason Lalljee / Axios: What to know about CECOT, the prison at the center of “60 Minutes” controversy
Martin Holmes / TV Insider: ‘60 Minutes’ Fans Slam CBS News After Bari Weiss Yanks Trump Deportations Segment
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: @SigSomd He's not from El Salvador. Trump sent people who had nothing to do with El Salvador there. Some weren't illegal. None had due process. The Supreme Court ordered it stopped. And now all these people are back home. And the issue is 60 Minutes' retraction of its own story.
Ed Krassenstein / @edkrassen: BREAKING: CBS just pulled this episode of 60 Minutes claiming it is “postponed” Here is the trailer that was pulled for the now “postponed” segment. Make sure everyone sees it. It's remarkable how much harm Pro-Trump Bari Weiss has managed to inflict on CBS News in such a [video]
Don Winslow / @donwinslow: Hello, My name is @bariweiss and I destroyed @CBSNews. (IMO) ‘60 Minutes’ Pulls Planned Segment On Trump Administration's Deportation Of Migrants To Harsh El Salvador Prison; Show Says Report Will Air In Future https://deadline.com/... via @Deadline
Séamus Malekafzali / @seamus_malek: Looked on YouTube and the teaser clip for Inside CECOT has been deleted from the 60 Minutes Channel as well. [image]
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill: CBS News pulls ‘60 Minutes’ segment; correspondent blasts ‘political’ decision
Yashar Ali / @yashar: Hours before 60 Minutes was set to air a story on deportees who were sent by the Trump administration to prison in El Salvador, describing “brutal and torturous conditions,” 60 Minutes announced that it has pulled the segment and will air it in the future. [image]
Paul A. Szypula / @bubblebathgirl: Democrats are outraged 60 Minutes has delayed their report on “Inside CECOT.” Here's a trailer for that report that'll now air at a future date. You know what Democrats aren't outraged about? American victims of illegals. Says it all, sadly. [video]
Richard Hanania / @richardhanania: Looks like 60 Minutes was going to run a story on the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador and then decided not to for unexplained reasons.
Kelsey Piper / @kelseytuoc: the government sending innocent people (many here legally) to be tortured and raped is one of the most unforgivable things done this year and I hope that 60 Minutes is able to air their full reporting on what happened
Brian Allen / @allenanalysis: BREAKING: CBS just pulled its own 60 Minutes report exposing torture at El Salvador's CECOT prison, a facility where Venezuelans were secretly sent instead of deported. Bari Weiss now runs CBS. Watch what they didn't want you to see. [video]
Philip Lewis / @phil_lewis_: “60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air https://ca.news.yahoo.com/...
@neonchinchilla.bsky.social: @cbsnews.com — What's it like to be a propaganda outlet for the regime? Do you think you are just being good Germans? Or do you realize you have been cucked by evil? — It must really suck to be this spineless and shitty.
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin.bsky.social: By trying to grease an interview with Stephen Miller, she sends the White House the message that they should work through her rather than CBS journalists. — It's a terrible way to run a newsroom, and it is exactly what you'd expect from an insecure editor who knows she's over her head. [image]
Brendel / @brendelbored.bsky.social: I think it's pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there's anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it's that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today
Michael J. Stern / @michaeljstern.bsky.social: When we can no longer rely on 60 Minutes to do the right thing, CBS News is dead, joining the Washington Post and the LA Times. — www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes- s...
Frank Figliuzzi / @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social: I'm old enough to remember when we had a free press. CBS yanks 60 Minutes segment on CECOT prison Trump sends deportees to: www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes- s...
@politicalamericans.bsky.social: We're weeks away from @60minutes.bsky.social renaming itself to Trump Minutes. — www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes- s...
@pritzkerposting.bsky.social: Someone at CBS should leak it anonymously — www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes- s...
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Source: Bari Weiss got personally involved with political stories, after Trump criticized 60 Minutes for interviewing Marjorie Taylor Greene earlier this month — Earlier this month, after President Donald Trump blasted “60 Minutes” for interviewing Marjorie Taylor Greene, correspondents noticed a change behind the scenes.
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Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA: Bari Weiss Shows What Censorship Looks Like Under Trump
Doug P. / twitchy.com: Journos Say CBS News/60 Minutes Destroyed Credibility by Delaying Deportee Story (Yeah, About That...)
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter.bsky.social: Bari Weiss screened the “INSIDE CECOT” story on Thursday night. The segment was finalized and publicized on Friday. Then Weiss circled back with concerns on Saturday morning... www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/m...
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Weiss thinks that the existing 60 Minutes framework did not provide sufficient checks and balances to ensure that the reporting met Weiss' standards — CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss told top “60 Minutes” producers Sunday afternoon, after holding a controversial news segment …
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Max Tani / Semafor: Trump and television divide CBS newsroom
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story: ‘Complete nonsense’: Legal expert tears apart CBS boss' excuses for blocking Trump story
Jacob Bryant / The Wrap: ‘Morning Joe’ Slams CBS News for Pulling ‘60 Minutes’ Megaprison Segment: ‘Not Good at All’ | Video
Emma Pitts / Deseret News: Tensions rise at CBS News as new editor Bari Weiss postpones El Salvador prison report on ‘60 Minutes’
Matt Vespa / Townhall: The Tweet That Perfectly Captures the Reaction to CBS News' Bari Weiss Reportedly Spiking This Story
Martin Holmes / TV Insider: ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Blasts CBS News Boss After Explosive Trump Report Gets Axed
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
A spate of unforced errors by Bari Weiss has kept scrutiny high on CBS News, as Paramount tries to acquire WBD and can ill afford negative attention — Analysis: Hard-charging news chief keeps running into walls instead of breaking down silos, all as parent corporation tries to show its media-industry mettle.
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@tvgrimreaper: Weiss was aquihired to score points with the White House. Those “unforced errors” are a feature, not a bug for that purpose. Nothing she does matters for the business of CBS, which is entirely dependent on the decline of cable bundle subscribers. The media coverage that's
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla.bsky.social: “.. her lengthening series of missteps cast fog around Paramount management's ability to run media properties with any degree of success.” — @bristei.bsky.social $PSKY — variety.com/2025/tv/news... [image]
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS staff call: Bari Weiss says the 60 Minutes story “was not ready”, “did not advance the ball”, and needed to “get the principals on the record and on camera”
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Yashar Ali / The Reset: BREAKING: 60 Minutes Correspondent Says Trump Story Was Spiked For Political Reasons
Jon Favreau / @jonfavs: Bari's memo isn't unreasonable (mostly), but it's incredibly naive. @StephenM, @KristiNoem, @TriciaOhio, and the rest only give interviews to MAGA outlets where they can lie or do quick TV hits where they can filibuster. A reporter with 60 Minutes would actually challenge
Brett T. / twitchy.com: Brian Stelter Pretty Jazzed That Canadian TV Channel Has Posted That 60 Minutes Segment
Fox News: CBS, Bari Weiss facing mounting backlash from liberal critics over yanking ‘60 Minutes’ segment
Erik Swann / CinemaBlend: CBS News Boss Defends Last-Minute Decision To Pull 60 Minutes Story: ‘Our Viewers Come First’
Corbin Bolies / The Wrap: Democratic FCC Commissioner Slams Bari Weiss ‘60 Minutes’ Pull: ‘External Pressure Rather Than Journalistic Judgment’
Sam Stein / @samstein: Say what you will about Weiss' decision to not publish this 60 Minutes CECOT story, but at least she didn't edit down the aired transcript of an interview for purposes of clarity and length.
Roger Friedman / Showbiz411: “60 Minutes” Civil War: Sharyn Alfonsi Responds to CBS Pulling Segment on El Salvador Prison: “Broadcast Being Dismantled”
Mike Brock / Notes From The Circus: Bari Weiss is Not on the Level
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: Bari Weiss will try to characterize this as setting the bar higher for journalism at 60 Minutes and CBS News, but it will be received by many as an attempt to interfere in editorial independence and kowtowing to the Trump administration.
Dan Rather / Steady: One Courageous Correspondent — CBS News “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is walking the walk.
Bob / Lefsetz Letter: 60 Minutes/Bari Weiss — Everybody can't do everything. — My inbox is littered with people saying not to use their name.
Scott Nover / @scottnover: Good context. Sharyn Alfonsi noted the parallel and made the same point in her email to staffers.
New York Post: What to know about CECOT - after 60 Minutes abruptly pulls segment on the notorious El Salvador prison
Tim Graham / Newsbusters: FAMILY FEUD: ‘60 Minutes’ Leftists Wage Internal War on Bari Weiss Applying Brakes
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: My story on the decision of CBS Editor in Chief Bari Weiss to pull a 60 Minutes story on alleged abuses of Venezuelan migrants sent to notorious Salvadoran Center. Updated with this morning's remarks from Weiss: https://www.npr.org/...
Mary Chastain / Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Bari Weiss Pulls 60 Minutes Segment on El Salvador CECOT Prison Because It Wasn't Ready
Nick Bythrow / Screen Rant: CBS Correspondent Says Network Pulled 60 Minutes Segment For Political Reasons
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net: Bari Weiss delays “60 Minutes” segment on controversial prison linked to Trump
Drew Olanoff / @yoda: Bari Weiss is a liar.
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic: Bari Weiss's Audience of One
Andrew Prokop / @awprokop: I'm old enough to remember Bari Weiss complaining about “self-censorship” at the Times, at how politically sensitive pieces could run “only after every line is carefully massaged, negotiated and caveated,” and at how pretextual complaints about a story not being “strong enough” [image]
@deggans: Give me a break. What if it was a TV exclusive? If an enterprising critic looks over recent 60 Minutes reports, we're not going to see any stories which have been covered by other news outlets? No one believes this BS.
David Bauder / Associated Press: ‘60 Minutes’ story critical of Trump deportation policy is pulled from lineup
Bob Hoge / RedState: Meltdown at CBS News: 60 Minutes Dumps Fawning Illegal Alien Deportation Segment at Last Second
Isabella Simonetti / @thesimonetti: New: See the memo Bari Weiss sent to some 60 Minutes staff on Sunday: [image]
Jim Manzon / International Business Times: CECOT CBS 60 Minutes Delay Linked to Trump Deportee Plan — Tax Dollars Down $150K+
Sophia Tesfaye / Salon: Bari Weiss spiked a major migrant story — and told on herself
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Bari Weiss Tells CBS News Staffers Pulled ‘60 Minutes’ Piece Needed To “Do More,” Cites Need To Get Principals “On The Record And On Camera”
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story: ‘A living hell’: Morning Mika rips apart CBS' excuse for spiking ‘60 Minutes’ Trump story
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: NEW: Bari Weiss addresses her decision to hold last night's CECOT story on the CBS News morning editorial call: “Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else...” [image]
@wesinjapan.bsky.social: You need to have the important people. No, no, not the people who were sent to a prison to be tortured. The IMPORTANT people. [embedded post]
Liam Scott / @liamjscott: Bari Weiss defended her decision to pull a “60 Minutes” segment in a newsroom call this morning. via @ScottNover
Michael Shellenberger / Public: CBS Reporter Making Unsupported Allegations Of Censorship Against Bari Weiss Has History Of Biased And Inaccurate Reporting
Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Paramount says Larry Ellison “agreed to provide an irrevocable personal guarantee of $40.4B” for its hostile WBD bid, but did not increase its $30-per-share bid — Paramount Skydance on Monday guaranteed the backing of billionaire Larry Ellison in an amended offer for Warner Bros. Discovery …
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Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Paramount Amends Bid for Warner Discovery With New Ellison Guarantee
Sarah Fielding / Engadget: Paramount has an updated Warner Bros. Discovery bid
David Goldman / CNN: Paramount's new, hostile offer to Warner Bros. Discovery: Larry Ellison will personally guarantee $40 billion
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Paramount Responds To WBD Concerns About Hostile Bid, Offering New Larry Ellison Financing Guarantee
Mario Gabelli / @mariogabelli: Warner Bros Discovery ....paramount clarifies $30 cash bid ....now netflix needs to simplify structure...and increase cash portion...tax issues such as basis allocation for taxable holders needs focus..
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: Warner Bros. Discovery to ‘Carefully Review and Consider’ Paramount's Amended $30-Per-Share, All-Cash Bid
Nileena Sunil / The American Bazaar: Larry Ellison provides $40 billion guarantee for Paramount's WBD bid
Todd Spangler / Variety: Paramount Skydance Says Larry Ellison Has Made ‘Irrevocable Personal Guarantee’ of $40.4 Billion Toward Warner Bros. Discovery Bid
Joe Flint / @jbflint: Larry Ellison agrees to personally guarantee $40.4 billion of equity financing for Paramount's offer to acquire Warner Discovery. From @laurenthomas https://www.wsj.com/...
Lauren Hirsch / Australian Financial Review: Larry Ellison personally guarantees Paramount bid for Warner Bros
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Paramount guarantees backing of Larry Ellison in Warner Bros. bid — Also upping its breakup fee to match Netflix's — But bid value remains unchanged at $30-oer-share all-cash https://www.axios.com/...
Mona Tabbara / Screen: Larry Ellison provides personal $40.4bn guarantee in revised Warner Bros Discovery offer
Scott Nover / @scottnover: Larry Ellison is now personally guaranteeing $40 billion in equity financing for Paramount Skydance's hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: Larry Ellison to Personally Guarantee $40.4 Billion of Paramount's $108.4 Billion Hostile Takeover of WBD
Steve Kopack / NBC News: Paramount beefs up its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with new Larry Ellison guarantee
Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: Paramount Sweetens Its Offer For Warner Bros., Including Massive Guarantee From Larry Ellison
Lisa Hornung / UPI: Paramount assures Larry Ellison backing to WBD hostile bid
Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh: Its like when your parents become gurantors for the lease in NYC you cannot afford [image]
Jake Johnson / Truthout: Trump Ally Larry Ellison Pledges $40B to Help His Son Buy CNN Parent Company
Callum Jones / The Guardian: Larry Ellison gives personal guarantee for Paramount takeover of Warner Bros Discovery
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Paramount amends Warner Discovery bid with Larry Ellison personal guarantee
Los Angeles Times: Larry Ellison pledges $40-billion personal guarantee for Paramount's Warner Bros. bid
Jordan Ruimy / World of Reel: Paramount Isn't Backing Off: New Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, Larry Ellison Steps In
Akash Sriram / Reuters: Larry Ellison gives $40.4 billion guarantee for Paramount bid for Warner Bros
Julia Marshall / Straight Arrow News: Paramount includes Larry Ellison's $40 billion personal guarantee in amended Warner Bros. bid
Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News: Paramount is Again Trying to Buy Warner Bros. Discovery With a New Offer
Lucia Moses / Business Insider: Paramount sweetens its WBD bid with a $40 billion guarantee from Larry Ellison — but doesn't increase the price
Rianna de Bono-Smith / Screen Rant: Paramount Renews Hostile Takeover Efforts For WB After Rejection As CEO Pledges $40 Billion
Quartz: Larry Ellison puts $40 billion of his own money behind Paramount's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Meg James / Yahoo Finance: Larry Ellison pledges $40 billion personal guarantee for Paramount's Warner Bros. bid
Ben Miller / Los Angeles Business Journal: Larry Ellison personally guarantees Paramount's $108B Warner Bros. bid
Sydney Carruth / MS NOW: Larry Ellison props up Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros.
Nancy Levine Stearns / @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social: CBS News' parent company Paramount is still trying to swallow up Warner Bros. Discovery. — State-run media is trying to expand. — ir.paramount.com/news-release...
Daniel Frankel / StreamTV Insider: Paramount amends WBD bid to include Larry Ellison's personal guarantee
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: Paramount's bid for all of WBD is for several reasons — one of the biggest is that the combined Paramount-WBD makes it the biggest distributor of media based on Nielsen's monthly charts at 14.2%, slightly ahead of YouTube (12.9%). Netflix with no cable doesn't get there (9.6%) [image]
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Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
SEC filing: Netflix says it secured up to $25B in bank financing to fund its proposed $72B acquisition of WBD, maturing three years after the deal closes
Discussion:
Lawrence Nga / Motley Fool: Netflix enters 2026 with a massive opportunity — and an equally massive risk.
James Franey / New York Post:
Sources: SAG-AFTRA “is building a war room to oppose” the WBD-Netflix merger, including plans for a potential strike
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline: Netflix Refinances Chunk Of Bridge Loan For Warner Bros. Acquisition
Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News: The Actors' Union is Reportedly Planning a Strike to Try and Block Netflix From Buying Warner Bros. Discovery
Kayla Cobb / The Wrap: Warner Bros. Discovery Shareholder Calls on Netflix to Revise Offer After Paramount Clarifies All-Cash Bid
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD's board says it will “carefully review and consider” Paramount's revised offer, which includes a full backstop personally guaranteed by Larry Ellison
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline: WBD Advises Shareholders Not To Take Any Action As It Reviews Paramount's Amended Takeover Offer
Wyatte Grantham-Philips / Associated Press: Larry Ellison guarantees $40.4 billion in Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Times of India: Father's guarantee: Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison backstops son's $78bn Paramount bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: Larry Ellison Makes ‘Irrevocable Personal Guarantee’ of $40.4 Billion Towards Paramount's WBD Bid
Manoj Sharma / Fortune India: Paramount Skydance ups WBD takeover bid, adds Larry Ellison's personal guarantee
Dave Smith / Fortune: Billionaire Larry Ellison comes to his son's rescue, agreeing to personally guarantee over $40 billion to finance Paramount's bid for Warner Bros.
Caden Olson / The Daily Caller: Pro-Trump Billionaire Larry Ellison Puts $40,000,000,000 On Line In Battle With Netflix
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Channel 4 says Jimmy Kimmel will share a message on Christmas Day as part of its Alternative Christmas Message show, emphasizing the importance of free speech — Mr. Kimmel will speak out against fascism and about the importance of free speech in the holiday address, according to a Channel 4 spokesman.
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Matthew Weaver / The Guardian: Cancelled US comedian Jimmy Kimmel to deliver Christmas message to UK
Norman Weiss / TV Tattle: Britain's Channel 4 taps Jimmy Kimmel to deliver its annual Alternative Christmas Message
Jake Kanter / Deadline: Jimmy Kimmel To Deliver Christmas TV Speech Reflecting On “Really Great Year” For Fascism
Ron Dicker / HuffPost: Why Is Jimmy Kimmel Giving A ‘Deeply Personal’ Christmas Speech On British Television?
Gil Kaufman / Billboard: After Tough Year, Jimmy Kimmel to Get ‘Deeply Personal’ With ‘Alternative Christmas Message’ For Britain's Channel 4
Jack Robbins / National Enquirer: Jimmy Kimmel Will Give ‘Deeply Personal’ Christmas Day Speech on British TV, Plans to Address ‘Fascism’
Jessica Inman / UPI: Jimmy Kimmel to give alternative Christmas message on Channel 4
Anthony Lund / MovieWeb: Jimmy Kimmel Will Address a “Fascist” Year in Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Jimmy Kimmel to make Christmas Day address on UK TV saying 2025 a ‘really great year’ for fascism
Martin Holmes / TV Insider: Jimmy Kimmel to Deliver Christmas Day Speech Reflecting on 2025: ‘A Really Good Year For Fascism’
Simon Kent / Breitbart: Jimmy Kimmel to Deliver Christmas Day Address on UK TV Calling 2025 a ‘Really Great Year’ for Fascism
Steven McIntosh / BBC: Jimmy Kimmel to say ‘fascism has had a great year’ in Channel 4 Christmas message
Rebecca Falconer / Axios: Kimmel to give “deeply personal” Christmas Day message on U.K. TV
Evann Gastaldo / Newser: Kimmel to Give ‘Alternative Christmas Message’ in UK
Mitchell Peters / Billboard:
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files — The scrape allegedly accessed 86 million audio files. Spotify is “actively investigating the incident.”
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Anna's Blog, The Guardian, Android Central, Engadget, Neowin, The Record, Digital Music News, Digital Trends, CyberInsider, Mashable, PCMag, TorrentFreak, Dexerto, MakeUseOf, Gizmodo, @mikebutcher.bsky.social, AIN, The Register, Thurrott, Decrypt, Tom's Hardware, The Verge, Music Ally and @rasmusfleischer@tldr …
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Brady Snyder / Android Central: Anna's Archive backed up 99% of Spotify listens in the name of ‘preservation’ — but is it really just piracy?
Fiza Ali / Neowin: Anna's Archive claims to have backed up Spotify in a 300TB “preservation archive”
Jonathan Greig / The Record: Spotify disables accounts after open-source group scrapes 86 million songs from platform
Dylan Smith / Digital Music News: Hackers Scrape Spotify's Entire Library, Obtain 300 Terabytes' Worth of Audio — Spotify Says It's ‘Identified and Disabled the Nefarious User Accounts’
Amar Ćemanović / CyberInsider: Anna's Archive releases massive 300TB Spotify music scrape
Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable: Anna's Archive ‘backed up’ Spotify's massive catalogue to preserve online music
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: Anna's Archive Backed Up Spotify, Plans to Release 300TB Music Archive
Dave Schafer / MakeUseOf: A massive Spotify backup effort just went public — and it was bound to happen
Bruce Gil / Gizmodo: Activists Announce They've to Scrape All of Spotify in Massive 300 Terabyte Archive
Mike Butcher / @mikebutcher.bsky.social: ALL the songs on Spotify were scraped, and released for free as a 300TB torrent. Artists won't get paid, obviously, so this is hardly true ‘activism’. Meanwhile, OpenAI lawyers might well be muttering “sounds legit”... www.billboard.com/business/str...
Liudmyla Shkurak / AIN: Pirate activists hacked Spotify's library: they stole data on 86 million tracks
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: Shadow ‘Archive’ Says It Copied Virtually All of Spotify's Music
Hassam Nasir / Tom's Hardware: Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Spotify says ‘anti-copyright extremists’ scraped its library
Rasmus Fleischer / @rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org: Now when Anna's Archive has all music on Spotify (300TB) scraped, backed up and about to be released through batch torrents, we know what dataset “music AI” companies will use for training their GenAI models. — https://annas-archive.li/... However, I doubt that access to more music will in itself do much to enhance those models. …
Reuters:
Israel's cabinet votes to shut down popular national radio station Army Radio, saying it has become a platform for views that “attack” its armed forces — Israel's cabinet voted on Monday to shut down a popular national radio station, one in a series of measures …
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