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"Newsroom culture clash" at CBS News

And we’re criticizing the boss who is spiking stories to protect the regime. Not making excuses for why it’s really not that bad. The “let them eat cake” approach from those insulated from the outcomes is certainly a choice…not a good one.
 
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CBS defends pulling 60 Minutes segment about Trump deportations

The network was accused of making a "political" move to pull the story about Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador.
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Here is another part of the story where Sharon Alfonsi got approval from CBS Lawyers and producer to run the story on CECOT but while we focused on Bari Weiss given her role in managing the news division However we have to consider the Ellisons who made that final decision at Paramount and did that all to run with the merger with WB as a candidate

Ms Alfonsi, in her note to colleagues on Sunday, said her team had approached the White House, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security, but that government officials refused to be interviewed for the piece. The 60 Minutes segment had been approved by CBS lawyers and standards editors, she added.
"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," Ms Alfonsi wrote.
The latest 60 Minutes controversy adds to scrutiny of CBS News since the broadcaster was taken over earlier this year as part of a wider merger with Paramount.
It is now led by David Ellison, the son of tech billionaire and Trump ally Larry Ellison, whose relationship with the president has been closely watched as he pushes to build a media empire.
He is currently seeking to acquire Warner Bros Discovery, which owns television networks including CNN. Paramount on Monday said Larry Ellison would provide a personal guarantee for more than $40bn for that deal.
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michael hagerty said:
A reminder, just as a point of fact and apropos of nothing, that the Internet Archive allows downloads.
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Why would people want to download it?

BTW there have been a lot of previous documentaries about this prison. Especially back when Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported there last April. In fact CBS News ran a story about it then:

 
michael hagerty said:
The Internet Archive has begun taking down copies of the 60 Minutes CECOT piece.
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One of the best sources remains this subtitled version posted to BlueSky in 5 parts:
bsky.app

Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog.xyz)

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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This site has been hosting the broadcast-quality segment in one part, but without the subtitles. It's still up as of this time:
www.thereset.news

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See

Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.
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michael hagerty said:
CBS is playing whack-a-mole.
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That's why I watched it at 10:30 last night, at the risk of losing sleep (and I didn't sleep so well after seeing it), I felt it was important to see it so that I could judge for myself.


michael hagerty said:
People want to see it, but are chasing links to find out that the video has been taken down. That said, ones embedded in people's sites and substacks, like the one from The Reset that @Theater of My Mind posted above, are likely to stay up longer.
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If CBS were smart and nimble ... big assumptions, I know ... they'd air it as a prime-time special and sell out all the availabilities.
 
michael hagerty said:
In order to watch it.

CBS is playing whack-a-mole. People want to see it, but are chasing links to find out that the video has been taken down. That said, ones embedded in people's sites and substacks, like the one from The Reset that @Theater of My Mind posted above, are likely to stay up longer.
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Exactly.

The more the downloads, the more sharing is available to those who want to see it.
 
TheBigA said:
I'd make it the subject of their next town hall...hosted by Bari Weiss. Put her in front of a live audience.
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Nah...too much journalism inside baseball.

I should have made an edit:

If CBS were smart and nimble ... big assumptions, I know ... they'd air it as a prime-time special this week and sell out all the availabilities.

Though not exactly the most uplifting holiday viewing, the shelf life of something like this is very short.
 
michael hagerty said:
At the moment, there are three people making decisions for CBS News that work for CBS. Two of them are named Ellison. The other is Bari Weiss. There is no way they do that.
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Yes and let's hope Sharon Alfonsi and the team that were with her to cover CECOT for 60 Minutes the best of luck in either at CBS or somewhere else because of the decisions of the Ellisons and Bari Weiss.
 


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