CBS News cancels segment from “60 Minutes” on deportations to El Salvador’s CECOT prison

CBS News abruptly canceled a segment from Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes” featuring the stories of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s brutal CECOT prison.

CBS pulled the segment three hours before the broadcast, after Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, requested multiple changes to the segment.

CBS correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who reported the segment, said in an internal note: “Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”

[ SOURCE: DEMOCRACY NOW ]