60 Minutes has been trumpified.
CBS News has not renewed the contract of Sharyn Alfonsi, the “60 Minutes” correspondent who clashed with Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss over a December report on a Salvadoran prison, according to an interview published on Wednesday in the New York Times.
CBS pulled the segment – about a mega-prison where the U.S. has sent hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants without trial – hours before it was due to air in the U.S., sparking accusations from inside “60 Minutes” and on Capitol Hill that the network was engaging in self-censorship under political pressure.
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CBS is owned by Paramount Skydance.
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Skydance Media, run by David Ellison – the son of longtime supporter of President Donald Trump, Larry Ellison – acquired Paramount in August and installed Weiss in October as editor-in-chief. David Ellison helped secure regulatory approval for the deal which created Paramount Skydance, with the promise that the CBS network would reflect the “varied ideological perspectives” of American viewers.
By which they mean the trumpy views.
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