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"Newsroom culture clash" at CBS News

When Abrego Garcia (pardon the spelling of his name) was fighting his deportation earlier and later imprisonment in both El Salvador and the U.S., my brother had the following conversation with me about his case:

Brother: You know why President Trump is fighting like hell to keep him down in El Salvador, don't you?
Me: Well, I know what the claims against him are...
Brother: It has absolutely nothing to do with his claims and whether they are true. It has *everything* to do with not letting Americans know, especially his supporters know, what kind of treatment is taking place down there.

I'd say the attempted killing of the story by Bari Weiss had *everything* to do with my brother's reasoning of the situation.
 

Here is an update that is a factor why Bari Weiss pulled out of a 60 Minutes story and some of it it tied to the Ellisons and their candidacy of getting WB along with Netflix as the other candidate getting the WB.


Dec 22 (Reuters) - Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab co-founder Larry Ellison has stepped in to personally guarantee $40.4 billion in Paramount Skydance's (PSKY.O), opens new tab latest effort to pry Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O), opens new tab away from selling its prized Hollywood assets to streaming giant Netflix (NFLX.O), opens new tab.
The guarantee, disclosed in a filing on Monday, seeks to allay the Warner Bros board's doubts about Paramount's financing and the lack of full Ellison family backing, which had pushed it toward the competing cash-and-stock offer from Netflix (NFLX.O), opens new tab.
Warner Bros shares closed up 3.5%, while Paramount added over 4%.
Warner Bros said it will review and consider Paramount's revised terms, adding that board is not modifying its recommendation with respect to the Netflix deal.
Netflix did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Paramount said the amended terms do not change the $30-per-share all-cash offer even as the fight for Hollywood's sought-after assets heats up, with control of Warner Bros' vast library offering a decisive edge in the streaming wars.
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The CECOT report is still available on various places on the Internet. Appears CBS is trying to play whack-a-mole to take those down, but the video has gone viral. Some posts I’ve seen stated the video was successfully downloaded by numerous users, which means it may now be far out of CBS’ reach.
 
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Mediafrog+ said:
The CECOT report is still available on various places on the Internet. Appears CBS is trying to play whack-a-mole to take those down, but the video has gone viral. Some posts I’ve seen stated the video was successfully downloaded by numerous users, which means it may now be far out of CBS’ reach now.
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The only person who cares is Bari Weiss. The reporter, producer, and everyone else on the team approved the piece already.
 
I’m surprised that CBS will go to great lengths to have the story pulled, but I wish them the best of luck trying to have it blocked. The truth needs to be told.
 
Don CT said:
Probably part of it.
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If I’m a betting man, I’m taking the over on this being exactly what happened. I don’t think this came from “just” Bari. I just don’t get why media companies just let Trump say what he wants without getting afraid of “whatever” punishment he thinks he can levy
 
TheBigA said:
The only person who cares is Bari Weiss.
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And the people she has brought on board to work directly under her, whose names we do not know.

And David and Larry Ellison, who want to grease Trump as they pursue a hostile takeover of WBD, and who don't want another situation like the MTG interview, two weeks ago, in which he said "60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE" under the new owners.

Not for nuthin', he also posted this to Truth Social one week ago today---while CBS was screening and vetting the CECOT piece:

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But---y'know---no pressure.

Also on the very much caring that someone at CBS forgot to tell Global Canada to pull that pre-feed of "60 Minutes":

The President of the United States and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
 
michael hagerty said:
CNN’s story on Global:

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From what I understand, CBS (or whoever handles feeding programming to Global) had fed the episode to Global with the segment intact, and apparently didn't get a revised episode. TV viewers in Canada saw 60 Minutes as the US would have seen it had Bari not intervened. Not so much a "leak" as a SNAFU. Of course it's gone viral on the internet with Bari Weiss trying to play whack-a-mole
 
A long piece that reaches some logical conclusions: Bari Weiss Has Thrown the CBS News Killswitch

Pull quote:

Here’s what I keep thinking about: this is probably the last time CBS will spike a story like this at the last minute.

Not because they’ve learned their lesson or because the backlash will change anything. But because they won’t need to. The dramatic, visible censorship of killing a promoted segment hours before air is embarrassing. It generates headlines. {...}

The smarter approach is to make sure stories like this never get that far in the first place.

This is how censorship actually works in large institutions. It’s not a guy in a uniform stamping “REJECTED” on your script. It’s a thousand small calculations, made by dozens of people, about what’s worth pursuing and what isn’t. It’s a producer deciding not to pitch an investigation because she knows it’ll never get approved. It’s a correspondent not making certain phone calls because he’s seen what happens to colleagues who rock the boat. It’s a desk editor quietly steering coverage away from topics that might cause problems upstairs.

None of this requires memos or meetings or explicit orders. It just requires a few high-profile examples of what happens when you pursue the wrong story. The Alfonsi situation is that example. Every journalist at CBS News now knows that if you spend months working on a segment that makes the Trump administration look bad, it might get killed at the last second by someone who’s never worked in television news and who reports directly to a billionaire with business before the administration.

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Some {...} stories will still get pitched. Some will still get made. CBS will still do critical coverage of the administration sometimes, if only to maintain the pretense of independence. But the calculus has changed. The risk-reward math is different now. And at the margins, that means stories that should get told won’t get told. Not because anyone explicitly killed them, but because they never got started in the first place.

That’s the kill switch working as intended. It doesn’t just stop one segment. It changes the entire editorial culture. It makes self-censorship so routine that nobody even notices it’s happening.
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I might add my suspicions that such performative critical coverage is more likely to come when Democrats are in power. That's how Fox News operates. So there is precedent.
 


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