The Guardian a month ago on the Bari Weiss regime at CBS:
The veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi expressed concern about “the spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear” at CBS News and her uncertainty about whether she will keep her job after she pushed back on a directive to change her December segment on Venezuelans who were sent to the Cecot prison in El Salvador.
Alfonsi spoke about the incident for the first time on Thursday evening after receiving the Ridenhour prize for courage at the National Press Club in Washington. Her comments come as the Trump administration has piled pressure on US media and follow the decision by the CBS News editor, Bari Weiss, to shelve the segment on the flagship news program.
Alfonsi had alleged at the time that Weiss had “spiked” the story for political purposes, a significant accusation of journalistic impropriety. Weiss argued that the segment was delayed because it did not sufficiently include the perspective of the Trump administration.
But the Trump administration doesn’t have a “perspective”. It has Trump, who has hatreds and rages and contempt and ignorance. Put them all together and they still don’t make a perspective, they just make chaos and disaster.
Alfonsi was preceded in her remarks by Bill Owens, who resigned from his job as executive producer of 60 Minutes in April 2025, citing corporate interference. Owens also received a Ridenhour prize for courage.
“I always said I’d follow Bill over a cliff, and apparently I did,” she said.
We’re all following Bill over a cliff.
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