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A politically influenced call by the MAGA-curious head of CBS News may have been behind the abrupt axing of an anti-Trump 60 Minutes segment on Sunday, according to an email sent by one of its correspondents.

CBS had promoted a report on 60 Minutes that covered the infamous El Salvador megaprison CECOT, which houses immigrants booted out of the U.S. by Donald Trump.

However, reports on Sunday night suggest that Bari Weiss, 41, the new editor-in-chief at CBS, flexed her muscle to yank the segment off the air with just three hours’ notice.

60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi, 53, sent an email on Sunday stating that Weiss “spiked our story” and that the decision was political, not an editorial call, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Stopped watching CBS awhile back. The Weiss hiring, and her subsequent actions have only confirmed my decision. It sucks too because my local CDS news affiliate is pretty decent, and I really like the morning anchor.

[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cable TV is compromised. It's hard to find reliable information these days especially if it's political in nature.

NPR member stations are a great way to stay informed, as well as the NY Times.

I personally like to listen to Philly's WHYY NPR station because it covers local news in my area too.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have issues with NPR. They basically had a pro genocide platform for a while. Doing whatever they could to justify Israel's actions.

Sure their reporting of events was straightforward, the issue came during their other segments/interviews

[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

WHYY only gets some of it's funding from NPR, it also gets lots of funding from corporate sponsors, and most importantly I believe about 50% of their funding comes directly from listeners.

By listening to local NPR stations you get a mix of NPR broadcast and local news / independent journalism.

So even if you have a bone to pick with NPR it's still worth it to give their local member stations a listen.