"We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship,"
"We are trading 50 years of 'gold standard' reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight."
"who describe the brutal and torturous conditions they endured."
Bari Weiss stopped a 60 Minutes segment that documented horrific conditions at CECOT, a brutal prison camp in El Salvador where the Trump administration deported many Venezuelan migrants. The administration labeled the deported men as gang-affiliated without due process, and several detainees have credibly contested those claims. The segment had been reviewed and promoted, then pulled three hours before airing; an apparent error briefly allowed it to surface online. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reported interviews with released men who described brutal, torturous conditions and warned that failing to air the segment without explanation would look like corporate censorship.
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