"Back in December, CBS News chief Bari Weiss intervened to spike a deeply reported and extensively documented newsmagazine story about conditions faced by captives sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador's CECOT concentration camp. Her rationale, as proffered in memos to CBS staff, was that without on-record comment from a member of the administration-which had declined several requests for exactly that-the story lacked necessary balance;"
"The link in that Bluesky post takes you to a story published on CBS News's website on Wednesday. That story cites unnamed "U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition," who claim that ICE agent Jonathan Ross somehow managed to suffer "internal bleeding to the torso" after stepping out of the path of a slow-moving vehicle and shooting its driver, Renee Good, in the face from point-blank range on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis."
"The story, bearing the bylines of Nicole Sganga and Jennifer Jacobs, is careful to avoid directly attributing the unsubstantiated bleeding to anything that happened during the Jan. 7 incident-a canny decision, since anyone with eyes can see, in the multiple publicly available videos of the murder, that contact between Ross's torso and Good's vehicle, if any, was minimal and inconsequential."
CBS News chief Bari Weiss halted a 60 Minutes story in December, citing lack of on-record comment from the administration. The administration had declined multiple requests for comment. CBS later published a separate report citing unnamed "U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition" who claimed that ICE agent Jonathan Ross suffered "internal bleeding to the torso." The report credited the Department of Homeland Security with confirming the injury but provided no specifics about who confirmed it or how. Publicly available video of the Jan. 7 killing shows minimal contact between Ross's torso and the vehicle, undermining the implication.
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