CBS News pulled a “60 Minutes” report on El Salvador’s CECOT prison just hours before its scheduled Sunday broadcast, saying it would air at a future time.
“The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated,” the program posted on social media. “Our report ‘Inside CECOT’ will air in a future broadcast,” the program posted on X and other social media platforms three hours before it was slated to air.
A CBS News spokesperson said in an email that the segment “needed additional reporting.”
The New York Times, quoting from a copy of a note written by Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent who reported the segment, said CBS pulled the segment for “political” reasons.
This article doesn’t repeat the claim, but the NYT article reported that not only did Weiss “suggest” that they talk to Stephen Miller, she gave them his contact information. As if they hadn’t bothered to try and get in touch with him, at all, this whole time. That article correctly noted that if they had to wait for an official Administration response on every story, it gives the Administration a de-facto veto by simply being too busy to reply.
I hope they did text that number, though, just to say “hi”. Who knows what kind of shit he will text back by mistake.
This tactic of obstruction deserves more attention.