"The show had planned to air a segment on CECOT, the maximum security prison in El Salvador that President Donald Trump sent suspected gangsters and illegal immigrants to. Titled Inside CECOT, the abbreviation for Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, the segment was dropped at 4:31 p.m. ET about two and a half hours before it was set to air. Despite its hasty removal from the 60 Minutes lineup, promotion for the piece was already available online."
"60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who reported the piece, interviewed a detainee in the trailer asking him if he thought he would die in the prison. We thought we were already the living dead, honestly, he says. Alfonsi slammed CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss's decision to abruptly pull her report, calling the decision a political one. We have been promoting this story on social media for days,"
CBS pulled a 60 Minutes segment titled Inside CECOT about a Salvadoran maximum-security prison where deportees were sent. The segment was removed from the schedule at 4:31 p.m. ET, roughly two and a half hours before airing, after a promotional trailer had already been posted and then removed from the CBS website. The trailer depicted deportees shackled, paraded before cameras, and describing prolonged suffering in CECOT. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewed detainees and criticized the decision to pull the report as political. Internal memos noted promotions had run for days and warned viewers would see an unexplained cancellation as corporate interference.
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