Critics Lash Out at Bari Weiss After 60 Minutes Yanks Segment on Trump Deportations Last Minute: 'SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!'
(Mediaite) New CBS News boss Bari Weiss was bashed by a number of media critics on Sunday night, immediately after 60 Minutes abruptly postponed a report on a “brutal” El Salvador prison that President Donald Trump deported suspected gangsters and illegal immigrants to.
60 Minutes announced the segment was dropped at 4:31 p.m. ET — about two and a half hours before it was set to air. The segment was titled “Inside CECOT,” referring to El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo; the maximum-security prison was opened by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in 2023 as part of his push to arrest more gang members.
President Trump said he was “very impressed” with the prison earlier this year and that he would “love” to send American crooks there.
60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewed some of the now-released deportees and they described the “brutal and torturous conditions they endured,” according to a press release teasing the segment. A CBS spokesperson told Puck reporter Dylan Byers the segment was pulled because its editors determined the segment “needed additional reporting.” CBS News boss Bari Weiss was bashed by a number of media critics on Sunday night, immediately after 60 Minutes abruptly postponed a report on a “brutal” El Salvador prison that President Donald Trump deported suspected gangsters and illegal immigrants to.
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