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Reporting on the Mirror – CBS NEWS
There sure is plenty of outrage over professional editing standards!
There is a jolt of excitable furor in the media landscape today, as it has been learned that a story set to have run on “60 Minutes” Sunday has been temporarily pulled by the new head of the news division, Bari Weiss. The piece concerns interviews conducted with some illegal aliens who have been taken in by ICE officials and sent to the high-security prison in El Salvador.
Her explanation is that the segment was not journalistically sufficient and requires more context and words delivered by administration officials. Reporter Sharyn Alfonsi has come out with a scathing email — conveniently shared with others in the press — scorching Weiss over the decision and declaring what is taking place as tantamount to censorship.
In a note we obtained, Alfonsi compares the removal of the segment of to "corporate censorship":
"We are trading 50 years of 'Gold Standard' reputation for a single week of political quiet."
A reminder, as she is trumpeting the unimpeachable past of the news program, Alfonsi is the same reporter who delivered the vaccine hit piece on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis