CBS postpones '60 Minutes' story on Trump deportees
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CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss' decision to pull the segment from Sunday's episode sparked criticism, including from the correspondent behind the reporting.
A 60 Minutes segment that CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss spiked is now available for viewing. The video, which is available on iCloud, was also posted on YouTube by Phil Lewis of HuffPost and was embedded above, but it has since been “removed by the user.” It was also available on the Global TV app before being taken down.
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."
NEW YORK, Dec 22 (Reuters) - A "60 Minutes" report on a Salvadoran mega-prison housing U.S.-deported migrants spread online on Monday, a day after CBS News pulled the segment before its scheduled Sunday broadcast, saying it needed more reporting.
CBS' "60 Minutes" delayed a segment about Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador's maximum-security prison hours before the episode was set to air.
CBS News pulled a “60 Minutes” report on a mega prison in El Salvador that houses hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. just hours before its scheduled Sunday broadcast, saying it would air at a future time.