CBS head Weiss lashes out at ’60 Minutes’ reporter who busted her on Trump story

https://www.rawstory.com/weiss-60-minutes/

Posted by Jumpinghoops46

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  1. >CBS News head Bari Weiss fired back at criticism from a CBS reporter over her decision to pull a “60 Minutes” report that was expected to be critical of the Trump administration. The reporter who oversaw the segment subsequently went public and called out her boss by providing behind the scenes details about the reporting interference.

    >Hours before the scheduled broadcast of an investigation into the horrific experiences of migrants detained by ICE and transferred to El Salvador’s CECOT prison facility, Weiss pulled the report despite its having been reviewed and approved multiple times by the network’s legal team and Standards and Practices office.

    >Weiss initially justified the decision by claiming the report lacked a response from the Trump administration. However, the reporter indicated that a response had been requested, but not provided by the administration.

    >The spiking of the story led the reporter Sharyn Alfonsi to send an email to her colleagues stating, “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch” for any reporting they find inconvenient.”

    >Faced with widespread criticism, which has been a hallmark of her tenure since she was hired to head the news division despite her lack of qualifications, Weiss fired back at Alfonsi during a staff conference call on Monday morning.

    >According to Justin Baragoina of The Independent, Weiss “lashed” out and began, ”The only newsroom that I’m interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest of editorial matters, and do so with respect.”

  2. Yeah sure, Americans know all about it.  What a sack of shite

  3. Weiss needs to own up to the fact that she killed a story of deliberate and systematic human abuse by ICE agents and their leadership, including the president and his administration. These are crimes against humanity. And Weiss is deliberately covering for them. Lets make sure Weiss is included on the ICC warrants forthcoming once MAGA loses power.

  6. All of the reporters need to resign and start a news station somewhere else. CBS needs to be next on the list for boycott! I have already canceled my Paramount Plus account! They all need to reach out to MeidesTouch!

  8. Like finding a dead body in someone’s apartment but their first complaint was that you were in their apartment.

  9. Not sure where all of these douche bags keep coming from. But killing a story that was looked over and approved sounds to me like violation. Good thing I never subscribed to Paramount +. Hope Weiss is fired soon, but we know since she is loyal they won’t let her go. What a load of crock?!

  10. only thing Bari Weiss cares about is promoting Zionism and cancelling brown people.

    she’s a horrible human who is strongly supported by huge corporate and corporate media concerns as well as (I suspect) direct funding from other Zionists.

  11. She’s a POS pedophile loving traitorous coward. Full. Stop. 🛑

  12. Weis got called out on her cowardly behavior and ethics. Kudos to the reporter

  13. Delete every app owned by these people. Skydance? Paramount? Anything owned by the Ellisons? Needs to be boycotted. Money is the only thing they listen to. Although, they don’t have to really even sweat that now, I guess? They have all the money.

    A boycott is the least people can do. We apparently don’t care enough to stop what’s very clearly occurring. And it’s as bad as it gets, really. I mean, chomos? Really?

    That doesn’t upset the majority of us enough to stand up? Deleting some apps is still a good message and you can do it from the couch. There will still be plenty of propaganda to entertain one, even without CBS.

    What you’re seeing happening? It’s happening. The stuff the Right is putting out? It’s what they tell you is happening.

  15. Bari Weiss is awful. As a feminist liberal woman, she embarrasses me. She is absolutely very comfortable with conservatives and should not be in charge of news.

  17. This happens all the time… either government or corporate doesnt like it … they silence people…. Seen it happen time and time again!

  18. Why is everyone surprised? The fix was already in, now its proven, CBS is dead. Look forward to the future when they start editing content on the platforms that doesn’t align with the owners agenda.

  19. Anyone not in the cult knows the admin would offer nothing but lies.

  21. It was no secret Paramount was becoming the broadcast version of FOX Noise, hope the boycott spreads.

  24. What, didn’t think that the rest of us would figure it out?

  26. Time to give CBS the Target treatment. Make the ratings tank and advertisers flee. We are not powerless.

  30. In other words, if we find out someone has kept and sexually abused 40 children in their basement and if we don’t get a statement from this person, it won’t be reported cause we don’t have both sides? Right.

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