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CBS News pulled a “60 Minutes” report on El Salvador’s CECOT prison just hours before its scheduled Sunday broadcast, saying it would air at a future time.

“The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated,” the program posted on social media. “Our report ‘Inside CECOT’ will air in a future broadcast,” the program posted on X and other social media platforms three hours before it was slated to air.

A CBS News spokesperson said in an email that the segment “needed additional reporting.”

The New York Times, quoting from a copy of a note written by Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent who reported the segment, said CBS pulled the segment for “political” reasons.

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

I think that in the coming years we're going to learn that Bari Weiss and others are just literally running stories by someone in Donald's White House before they're published. They didn't pay that hack $150,000,000 for her "brilliant" media work, after all.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

You think the Trump admin tells Larry Ellison what to do?

[-] user_name@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

I don’t think so, but only because he doesn’t need to. These plutocrats all share a worldview.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

Larry Ellison is a schill for the Israeli government

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I do, yes.

We've seen too many cases in the last 10 months of clear meddling in news and media companies by the Federal Government. A few examples: The dozens of lawsuits (most of which Donald won), Jimmy Kimmel, and most recently the Kennedy Center controversies and Donald's insertion of himself into the WB sale.

It's unreasonable to think Donald isn't meddling in news agencies at this point.

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