‘CBS’ Scrubs Story About Deportees.
“60 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.
The trigger: CBS News suddenly shelved a segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
The correspondent who reported the story, Sharyn Alfonsi, said in an internal memo that “the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship.” ‘CBS News’
CBS New has a new CEO in a big shakeup of the network. She has a far more right wing stance than her predecessors which today inevitably means aligning with the Trump Administration and mirroring what ‘Fox News’ puts out as news, perhaps with a slightly more polished less lip glossy approach. The attempt to bring the network in line is having some pushback from journalists who see themselves a purveyors of truth and not beholden to C-suit censors. This will be a test for her and the new network she wants to create.
