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Trump's Stooge at CBS Tried to Kill 60 Minutes Segment on Alleged Torture at El Salvador's CECOT- It Backfired
CBS News' censorship of '60 Minutes' story spectacularly backfires - DailykosCBS News’ decision to pull a ’60 Minutes’ report detailing torture and other offenses at the Trump-approved CECOT prison in El Salvador is continuing to cause major headaches for the network.
On Monday, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren questioned the decision, noting that CBS’ parent company Paramount “needs Trump’s backing to buy Warner Bros.—including CNN,” and that the editorial move happened as these negotiations are underway. “Is that just a coincidence? This looks like corruption,” she added.
The New York Times reported from internal sources within CBS that the network’s conservative editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, who made the decision to spike the story, failed to attend five internal screenings of the report as it made its way through the editorial process. Weiss did not voice her purported concerns about the report as it developed, instead making the decision to kill the story hours before it was to be broadcast.
Despite Weiss and CBS’ efforts to squelch the story, it leaked online Monday evening and may end up being watched by far more people than would have seen the network broadcast. In the piece, people sent to CECOT by the Trump administration describe conditions at the facility as torture.
On Monday, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren questioned the decision, noting that CBS’ parent company Paramount “needs Trump’s backing to buy Warner Bros.—including CNN,” and that the editorial move happened as these negotiations are underway. “Is that just a coincidence? This looks like corruption,” she added.
The New York Times reported from internal sources within CBS that the network’s conservative editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, who made the decision to spike the story, failed to attend five internal screenings of the report as it made its way through the editorial process. Weiss did not voice her purported concerns about the report as it developed, instead making the decision to kill the story hours before it was to be broadcast.
Despite Weiss and CBS’ efforts to squelch the story, it leaked online Monday evening and may end up being watched by far more people than would have seen the network broadcast. In the piece, people sent to CECOT by the Trump administration describe conditions at the facility as torture.
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watch but read the description of the C BS segment that was "spiked".. and the hell the People are going through by Vicious Sadists like the Traitor.
I love it when it "Backfires" on Neo Nazi adjacent. 
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