"Just a day and a half before it was set to be broadcast, new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a planned 60 Minutes investigative segment centering on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants last March. Weiss told colleagues this weekend the piece planned for Sunday night's show could not run without an on-the-record comment from a Trump administration official."
"A press release sent out Friday morning from CBS News' publicity team had promoted the story, promising a look inside CECOT, 'one of El Salvador's harshest prisons.' The network ran a video promotion which has since been taken down on the air and on social media. The announcement cited 'the brutal and tortuous conditions' some recently released deportees said they endured there. The release has since been revised."
Bari Weiss, new CBS News editor-in-chief, pulled a planned 60 Minutes investigative segment about alleged abuses at CECOT, an El Salvador detention center where hundreds of Venezuelan migrants were sent. Weiss said the piece could not run without an on-the-record comment from a Trump administration official. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi condemned the decision in an email, calling it political. A CBS press release had promoted the story and a video promotion aired and was later removed. The announcement cited deportees' accounts of 'brutal and tortuous conditions.' The story underwent repeated reviews and producers sought comment from DHS, the White House, and State.
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