Editorial: The muzzling of '60 Minutes' |
Bari Weiss during a January 2025 discussion in Washington, D.C. The founder of The Free Press was installed as editor in chief of CBS News last fall. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Uber, X and The Free Press)
The Dec. 21 decision by Bari Weiss, the newly installed editor-in-chief of CBS News, to postpone a “60 Minutes” report on alleged torture perpetrated at El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison drew significant attention just days before the onset of the interholiday media doldrums.
The fact that the story behind the unaired story has largely fallen from public view shouldn't be taken as a sign that anything has changed in the intervening weeks. Rather, it is a result of the velocity of other appalling news emanating from the Trump administration and its mouthpieces — from the arrest of Venezuela’s leader and saber-rattling over this nation’s potential takeover of Greenland to the killing of a Minnesota woman by an ICE officer and the latest attempt to use federal prosecution as a political tool.
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