CBS Anchor Forced to Cover Her Own Boss Amid ‘60 Minutes’ Fallout

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cbs-anchor-forced-to-cover-her-boss-amid-60-minutes-chaos/

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  1. CBS News anchor Jericka Duncan was put in the awkward position of covering her new boss Bari Weiss’ shocking eleventh-hour decision to hold a 60 Minutes report.

    Duncan, a veteran CBS anchor, found herself on Monday night’s CBS Evening News explaining how Weiss pulled a report on the grisly conditions inside an El Salvador megaprison used to detain Venezuelan men deported by Donald Trump.

    “Well, now to a story about CBS News,” Duncan said about halfway through the broadcast, audibly taking a breath. “A few hours before last night’s edition of 60 Minutes, viewers learned that a segment that had been promoted would not air.”

    Duncan went on to explain that Sharyn Alfonsi, her CBS colleague and the 60 Minutes correspondent who reported the story, was told Weiss had pulled the segment because the Trump administration had declined to participate.

    Read the full story, [here](https://www.thedailybeast.com/cbs-anchor-forced-to-cover-her-boss-amid-60-minutes-chaos/).

  3. I love Jericka Duncan. She has done some incredible work at CBS. I hate that she has to cover for her piece of shit boss

  4. if CBS is trying to cover their butt why would they even acknowledge this happened on the nightly news?

  5. Those who work in the news are supposed to keep from becoming it.

  6. This was predictable from the moment Weiss took over at CBS.

  7. HBIC shouldn’t have made herself the story.  What a literal buffoon Bari is.

  9. She’s done this before (and her boss got fired for threatening her lol)

  11. The administration either screwed up here or arrogantly assumed that the story would be quashed for political reasons. I would love to see if the Paramount owner Ellison was behind this.

    Either way, both the Trump administration and this new and infected CBS News are now coordinating on what news you see.

    And Paramount is trying to buy CNN as well. The state news is expanding.

  12. Someone put it brilliantly a while back

    How does someone like Bari Weiss keep finding ways to “fail upwardly?”

  16. That’s not being forced. When your editor tells you to go on TV and lie about why a segment was pulled and they point a camera at you, that’s probably one of the only times you’re completely free to decide if you’re a journalist or a propagandist.

  18. Failed to participate? They were full ass originators of the plan to ship detainees to the mega prison.

  20. CBS is a junk network suckling at Trumps micro penis. Tank their ratings and cancel Paramount.

  22. Imagine the stupidity of saying that a news organization will not publish an article against the administration if the administration doesn’t participate. Next, CBS is going to ask the DOD to review all its articles about the military.

  23. Everyone needs to go watch “The Insider” about 60 Minutes and big tobacco. We’ve been here before.

  25. I’m going to laugh when these people all scapegoat Bari Weiss & throw her to the Turning Point wolves

  27. They forgot to pull it from the 60 minutes broadcast in Canada. I watched it today on YouTube

  28. Network news is dying, situations like this will make it die faster

  30. What a dumb, gross, narcissistic person. 

    Such people are multiplying.

  31. John Dickerson must be privately thanking everything that his resignation period ended before this piece so he doesn’t have to be on board with this absolute mess.

  33. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr announced they will be hiring a “bias monitor” at CBS “who would report directly to the president.”

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