‘60 Minutes’ Staff Threaten to Quit Over Pro-Trump Censorship | An overnight firestorm of controversy has engulfed CBS amid mounting accusations of politicized management under the network’s new MAGA-curious chief.

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  1. >Staff at 60 Minutes are threatening to quit after the network’s MAGA-curious chief allegedly spiked a chilling segment on the Donald Trump administration’s nationwide deportation drive.

    >“Inside [60 Minutes], where journalistic independence is sacrosanct, ‘people are threatening to quit over this,” I’m told,” CNN’s chief media analyst Brian Stelter posted late Sunday night of the mounting firestorm.

    >CBS had announced earlier in the afternoon it would pull a 60 Minutes segment otherwise billed as an inside look at “brutal and torturous conditions” at CECOT, the feared El Salvadoran megaprison to which the MAGA administration has deported hundreds of migrants this year.

    >Bari Weiss, the network’s new editor-in-chief, allegedly made the decision just three hours before the show was due to air because it “needed additional reporting,” and suggested the program would benefit from an interview with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.

    >Miller is one of the chief architects of the Trump administration’s immigration raids, so it is partly at his direction that migrants were sent to the center in the first place.

    >He has repeatedly drawn fire for framing immigration as an “invasion” of criminal elements from abroad, and allegedly pushing deportation quotas that, in turn, have resulted in frequent violations of the Constitutionally mandated right to due process.

    >Weiss is the founder of the conservative-leaning The Free Press, and her appointment as editor-in-chief at CBS followed this year’s controversial merger between the network’s erstwhile parent company, Paramount, and media conglomerate Skydance.

    >The resulting entity, Paramount Skydance, is owned by the Ellison family, who are keen supporters of the Trump administration.

    >CBS has undertaken considerable layoffs and restructuring in the months since. Critics have particularly balked at the network’s creation of a new ombudsman role, filled by longtime conservative policy wonk Kenneth Weinstein, to evaluate allegations of bias leveled at the company, per conditions under which the Trump administration’s Federal Communications Commission approved the merger.

  2. CBS bought by Paramount Skydance. Larry Ellison is the primary financial backer of that company. Larry is the founder of Oracle and a major trump supporter and friend. The story canned here was about ICE detention center cruelties and law breaking.

    Freedom of speech in MAGA land consists of deifying Charlie Kirk, appointing his wife Erica Kirk as head priestess, and simultaneously killing stories based in actual reality like this CBS story.

  3. So CBS is mega too now. God I can’t stand this.

  4. People don’t want to see Steven Miller on their TV they want news

  5. I may, and I can’t stress may enough. Have hope for humanity if every single employee walks. But that won’t happen.

  8. CBS is so in the bag, their programming is changing.

  9. What I would give for a new network that’s the 60 Minutes team, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, John Oliver, etc.

    Would gladly pay $50+ a month for that to help combat all of the billionaire-owned networks…

  10. It’s more of the same and maga is still buying it all up as positive

    I keep saying I don’t get and I’m really trying?

  12. This is how Viktor Orban took control over almost all media in Hungary; make (millionaire/billionaire) allies buy them or put them in charge of it. This is how they gain control over the narrative. This is how fascism works.

    It’s happening in the US now. And they are not even *trying* to hide it. Almost all of the billionaire class supports Trump and wants to overthrow 250 years of American democracy. This goes especially for tech billionaires like Larry Ellison. They do not care one single bit about America and American citizens.

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