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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.
The "60 Minutes" CECOT segment that Bari Weiss had delayed from airing that caused a furor at CBS News has leaked online after it aired in Canada.
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'60 Minutes' story shelved by Bari Weiss streamed in Canada — and instantly spread across the web
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss decided to shelve a planned “60 Minutes” story titled “Inside CECOT,” creating an uproar inside CBS, but the report has reached a worldwide audience anyway.
At the last minute, CBS News held a segment about Venezuelan men who were deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador. It surfaced online anyway.
The story, where correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi spoke to deportees who had been sent to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, was held because Bari Weiss sought to add perspective from the White House.
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss defended her decision to delay a "60 Minutes" CECOT segment in remarks to staffers, saying it wasn't ready and didn't advance the story.
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Spiked ’60 Minutes’ Segment Spreads Online After Canadian TV Network Posts Unedited Episode
The 60 Minutes segment that was spiked by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss for not being ready is now readily available online, after the network that airs the show in Canada ran the original version of the program and subsequently released it online.
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After CBS News' decision to delay a "60 Minutes" segment about migrants deported to an El Salvador prison, some critics have alleged the move was to curry favor with the Trump administration.
Sharyn Alfonsi speaks with the "Barefoot Contessa" about her journey to becoming one of the country's most beloved cooks. Sloths, the world's slowest mammal, have been around for 64 million years. Sharyn Alfonsi traveled to Costa Rica to learn more about how they've survived.
The “60 Minutes” story, “Inside CECOT,” featured testimonies from Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration from the U.S. to CECOT, a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador. Weiss canned the segment on Sunday, just three hours before it was set to air, saying it “wasn’t ready” to be presented.
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