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A '60 Minutes' segment featuring interviews with deported Venezuelans has appeared online despite being pulled by executives.
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss abruptly canceled a planned “60 Minutes” segment on President Donald Trump’s deportation policies a day and a half before its scheduled broadcast.
A 60 Minutes segment that CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss spiked is now available for viewing. The video, which is available on iCloud, was also posted on YouTube by Phil Lewis of HuffPost and was embedded above, but it has since been “removed by the user.” It was also available on the Global TV app before being taken down.
CBS has come under fire after pulling the episode hours before it was due to air.
The broadcaster said Sunday that the segment would be aired at a future date, a move that drew criticism from the correspondent behind the reporting.
Minutes” just suffered a severe blow to its credibility. Now one of its own correspondents fears the program is being “dismantled,” and some employees are threatening to quit.
Two hours before airtime Sunday, CBS announced that the story where correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi spoke to deportees who had been sent to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison would not be a part of the show.
Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, criticized the network’s decision to remove her reporting from Sunday’s edition of the show.
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‘60 Minutes’ story shelved by Bari Weiss streamed in Canada — and instantly spread across the web
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss decided to shelve a planned “60 Minutes” story titled “Inside CECOT,” creating an uproar inside CBS, but the report has reached a worldwide audience anyway.