4 d. ago Bari Weiss drops Christmas Eve email to staff defending ‘60 Minutes’ decision to ‘win back’ Americans’ trust in the press

Over the weekend, Weiss intervened shortly before airtime to pull a planned ‘60 Minutes’ segment on CECOT, the notorious Salvadoran prison where the U.S. has sent hundreds of migrants without due process

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5 d. ago Controversial '60 Minutes' segment on Trump immigration policy leaks online

A controversial "60 Minutes" segment on El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center has been leaked online

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6 d. ago 60 Minutes episode on brutal El Salvador prison, pulled from air by CBS, appears online

Segment that Bari Weiss had removed provides in-depth look at the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo prisonA 60 Minutes episode investigating a brutal prison in El Salvador, which CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulled from the air on Sunday, appeared online on Monday after appearing on a Canadian TV app.The segment, which runs for nearly 14 minutes and was viewed by the Guardian, provides an in-depth look at the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Cecot) prison in El Salvador. It opens with footage of the megaprison and shows detainees being shackled upon arrival in El Salvador. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘60 Minutes’ segment controversially spiked by CBS News editor

The recently installed editor’s decision to pull a story on Venezuelans the U.S. deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador without due process has the staff ready to ‘revolt,’ sources told The Independent

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6 d. ago ‘Morning Joe’ shreds Bari Weiss for spiking ‘60 Minutes’ segment: She’s ‘cosplaying’ as a journalist

‘This story is promoted on Friday. And then it is spiked on Saturday because the White House decides they’re not going to give a comment,’ Joe Scarborough pointed out.

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6 d. ago Outrage after CBS pulls 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot prison

Controversially appointed editor-in-chief Bari Weiss says: ‘I held that story and I held it because it wasn’t ready’CBS News was dealing with internal and external uproar on Monday after it pulled at the last minute an investigation for its flagship 60 Minutes show into the harsh prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelans from the US earlier this year.The episode about the Cecot mega-prison was due to air on Sunday night. However, in an “editor’s note” posted on X late that afternoon, the broadcaster’s official account announced that “the lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report ‘Inside Cecot’ will air in a future broadcast.” Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘Holy f***ing dumpster fire’: Bari Weiss sparks ‘revolt’ at ‘60 Minutes’ by spiking CECOT segment

EXCLUSIVE: ‘It’s going to be fascinating to see how far Bari is willing to double down on the piece ‘not ready’ argument and or/attack Sharyn and [60 Minutes],’ one CBS News staffer told The Independent.

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7 d. ago CBS News delays 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot megaprison

Backlash after broadcaster announces investigation, due to air on Sunday night, ‘needs additional reporting’CBS News is facing a backlash, including from one of its own correspondents, after it cancelled a 60 Minutes investigation into a brutal prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has deported hundreds of migrants.The episode of its flagship program about the Cecot mega-prison was due to air on Sunday night. However, in an “editor’s note” posted on X, the broadcaster’s official account announced that “the lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report ‘Inside Cecot’ will air in a future broadcast.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago CBS News delays 60 Minutes segment featuring investigation into El Salvador’s Cecot megaprison

Backlash after broadcaster announces the program, which was due to air on Sunday night, ‘needs additional reporting’CBS News is facing a backlash from one of its own correspondents, and others, after it cancelled an upcoming 60 Minutes investigation into El Salvador’s brutal Cecot megaprison to which the Trump administration deported hundreds of migrants.The episode of its flagship program was due to air on Sunday night. However, in an “editors note” posted on X, the broadcaster’s official account announced that “the lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report ‘Inside Cecot’ will air in a future broadcast.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘The adventure can turn into a disaster’: the digital nomad families ‘worldschooling’ their children

Forget homeschooling, how about taking your family on a perpetual gap year and quitting the nine-to-five? Families who did just that share the hostel horrors and mid-trip meltdowns behind the Instagram feedIt was going to be the adventure of a lifetime. Late last year, Josy and Joe Davis decided to quit their jobs, sell their home and pull their two young daughters out of school to travel the world. Though their life in Gloucestershire was good on paper, post-pandemic it had been increasingly feeling like a grind. Josy, 35, a police dispatcher, worked shifts that swung from early morning to late night. Joe, also 35, a logistics manager, was often on call until 10pm. Neither felt as if they could ever switch off – let alone enjoy family time.Exhausted, Josy caught herself being short with her daughters, Lola and Zara, six and four. “I felt like I spent my days off recovering, rather than actually being present,” she says. Though only in Year 1, Lola was feeling the pressure at school...

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