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RadioActive · December 22, 2025 9:33 am

I hate to get political here, although others don't. But I'm breaking my own rule because this story involves not only broadcasting, but perhaps its most famous and venerable news show - CBS' "60 Minutes." The show pulled a story on the brutal prison system that recent U.S deportees were being sent to under the current Administration.

The reason? The White House refused to comment on the yarn, causing its new far right leaning Editor-In-Chief to pull the exposé entirely. The news person behind the story complains that means all the government has to do now is not say anything about any controversial story and it will be cancelled for 'lack of balance,' a definite threat to journalism.

It comes at a time when CBS owner Paramount has made a hostile bid for Warner Bros., currently part of a deal involving Netflix. A deal that, not coincidentally, will need the approval of the U.S. government, leading to allegations of trying to curry favour with those authorities.

Sharyn Alfonsi, the reporter of that now unseen tale, which the network says has only been pulled "temporarily," has issued a blistering memo to fellow staffers, excoriating the decision and what it could mean for the future reputation for the 56-year-old pioneering show and all future newscasts.

"If the standard for airing a story becomes “the government must agree to be interviewed,” then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.

These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless."

You can read the entire memo and the background to this concerning story at the link below. You can only wonder what Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite might make of this frightening development at what used to be the Crown Jewel of TV news.

60 Minutes Correspondent Slams Bari Weiss’s ‘Political Decision’ to Axe Her Trump Deportations Report in Stunning Internal Memo

RadioActive · December 22, 2025 8:42 pm

(Apologies to SOWNY member ckg927 - it appears we were typing at the same time!)

Here's an interesting part of this story that concerns Canada - apparently, word never reached Global TV, which airs the show on this side of the border - and they showed the pulled piece during its regular run on Sunday. It no longer appears to be on their website, but it was also briefly there, as well.

"It seems that the Canadian television network Global TV uploaded and made Sunday night's original episode available for viewing. Though it may not still be up by the time you read this, based on social media reactions, it's been up long enough for folks to claim that they've saved a copy."

60 Minutes: Pulled Trump/CECOT Segment Airs on Global TV in Canada

And save it somebody did. Whoever it was put up a kinescope-like recording (off a TV screen) of the controversial segment and while the quality is poor, the piece is still there for all to see. You can find that here.

Here’s the ’60 Minutes’ Segment That Bari Weiss Spiked

Brad · December 22, 2025 8:44 pm

Ahh... you beat me to it RadioActive. Just read about this from The Hollywood Reporter.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/spiked-60-minutes-segment-posted-online-airs-canada-1236457731/

If the "finished" report ever airs, it will be interesting to see what changes were made to it now that the original is out there.

Last edited by Brad (December 22, 2025 8:45 pm)

Chrisphen · December 22, 2025 10:11 pm

The moral of the story is that CFRB is better with its censorship than the New CBS.

RadioActive · December 22, 2025 10:30 pm

Well, that didn't take long. It appears whoever was sharing that piece on iCloud has take it down and it's no longer available. I hope someone else made a copy and will upload it, because I saw it and it's quite damning.

Last edited by RadioActive (December 22, 2025 10:30 pm)

Fleadh · December 22, 2025 10:35 pm

Well, we're getting invaded now. Or a gajillion percent tariff rate.

Last edited by Fleadh (December 22, 2025 10:36 pm)

TomTV · December 22, 2025 11:09 pm

RadioActive wrote:
Well, that didn't take long. It appears whoever was sharing that piece on iCloud has take it down and it's no longer available. I hope someone else made a copy and will upload it, because I saw it and it's quite damning.

That video is being reshared on Facebook right now. I saw over 26,000 shares already on there. And for those who want to preserve it on their own local hard drive, you can use https://fdown.net/ to download any Facebook video (make sure you turn on your Firefox extensions like UBlock and adblocker to avoid seeing unwanted ads though)

RadioActive · December 23, 2025 12:06 am

According to this CBC article, Canadians only saw a 13 minute segment of the piece. This story infers that it was longer than that.

"Viewers in Canada — or those around the world with a VPN — were able to watch a little more than 13 minutes of the segment online. Some screen-recorded the episode and uploaded versions to YouTube, TikTok and Reddit, where they circulated further.

The segment was available for at least two hours before it was removed. CBC News has contacted Global and Corus, its parent company, for comment."

60 Minutes prison segment postponed by CBS briefly viewed in Canada on Global TV

ED1 · December 23, 2025 12:11 am

The segment didn't are on Global's stations (they took a live simulcast of CBS), it was only on the Global TV app. It's also apparently available on your cable company's on-demand section under Global.

Last edited by ED1 (December 23, 2025 12:12 am)

Mavridis · December 23, 2025 12:14 am

RadioActive wrote:
I hate to get political here, although others don't. But I'm breaking my own rule because this story involves not only broadcasting, but perhaps its most famous and venerable news show - CBS' "60 Minutes." The show pulled a story on the brutal prison system that recent U.S deportees were being sent to under the current Administration.

The reason? The White House refused to comment on the yarn, causing its new far right leaning Editor-In-Chief to pull the exposé entirely. The news person behind the story complains that means all the government has to do now is not say anything about any controversial story and it will be cancelled for 'lack of balance,' a definite threat to journalism.

The assessment here is wrong. CBS's new 'editor-in-chief' (who, BTW, is not 'right wing') didn't spike the segment merely because it didn't include a White House reaction. But instead because a show like 60 Minutes should have tried harder to get an interview with one of the architects of the foreign prison program. The main reason it was shelved, according to Bari herself, was that there really wasn't anything new in there. Even the investigative elements weren't done by CBS; they were part of a volunteer college project that was run by another journalism program, and that wasn't even new. So, if there's nothing new here, why bother running it? Did you watch it? Considering the standards the show is meant to uphold, that segment felt more like something that was thrown together using Zoom and other people's work.

And can we please stop counting the revolutions per minute made in Murrow and Cronkite's respective graves already?! That was a million years ago. Both those men lamented the death of network news, long before they became history themselves. This is also not news.

RadioActive · December 23, 2025 12:16 am

ED1 wrote:
The segment didn't are on Global's stations (they took a live simulcast of CBS), it was only on the Global TV app. It's also apparently available on your cable company's on-demand section under Global.

But is it still there? Or has it been taken down as well?

The great thing about the Internet (and also the worst thing about the Internet) is that once it's up there, it's never really gone.

The great irony of this is if they'd just shown the segment as is, it would have been a one or two day headline and probably been forgotten. Now it's a cause celebre and will live on a lot longer, with people talking about it endlessly with potentially lasting damage done to CBS News.

Crisis management 101. Guess they didn't take the course.

RadioActive · December 23, 2025 12:20 am

Mavridis wrote:
RadioActive wrote:
I hate to get political here, although others don't. But I'm breaking my own rule because this story involves not only broadcasting, but perhaps its most famous and venerable news show - CBS' "60 Minutes." The show pulled a story on the brutal prison system that recent U.S deportees were being sent to under the current Administration.

The reason? The White House refused to comment on the yarn, causing its new far right leaning Editor-In-Chief to pull the exposé entirely. The news person behind the story complains that means all the government has to do now is not say anything about any controversial story and it will be cancelled for 'lack of balance,' a definite threat to journalism.
The assessment here is wrong. CBS's new 'editor-in-chief' (who, BTW, is not 'right wing') didn't spike the segment merely because it didn't include a White House reaction. But instead because a show like 60 Minutes should have tried harder to get an interview with one of the architects of the foreign prison program. The main reason it was shelved, according to Bari herself, was that there really wasn't anything new in there. Even the investigative elements weren't done by CBS; they were part of a volunteer college project that was run by another journalism program, and that wasn't even new. So, if there's nothing new here, why bother running it? Did you watch it? Considering the standards the show is meant to uphold, that segment felt more like something that was thrown together using Zoom and other people's work.

And can we please stop counting the revolutions per minute made in Murrow and Cronkite's respective graves already?! That was a million years ago. Both those men lamented the death of network news, long before they became history themselves. This is also not news.

I understand your connection to CBS News and wish to defend it. But this has done enormous damage to its reputation and as noted previously, if they'd just let it run as scheduled, it would likely be forgotten by now. Instead, it's now a thing and will stay a thing for a while.

And despite your defence, Ms. Weiss has little experience in this area - certainly not enough to be policing a show like 60 Minutes - and it does appear she wasn't exactly hired for her long resume in television journalism and TV news.

SpinningWheel · December 23, 2025 12:24 am

Having recorded last nights 60 minutes, I expected to see the Global version but after checking, I got the CBS version so it was missing the piece.

TomTV · December 23, 2025 1:20 am

RadioActive wrote:
I understand your connection to CBS News and wish to defend it. But this has done enormous damage to its reputation and as noted previously, if they'd just let it run as scheduled, it would likely be forgotten by now. Instead, it's now a thing and will stay a thing for a while.

Otherwise known as The Streisand Effect... (google it, for those who've never heard of this before... it's obvious that the Trump camp has not because they keep making this same mistake over and over and over again).

If you want to watch a crystal clear copy of the 13min segment, it's here on twitter:
https://x.com/PvtIcedC81Pol/status/2003290345623499041

There are ways to download Twitter videos as well, it's a 29Mb file, so you don't even need much storage space if you want to download it at medium resolution.

EDIT: Saw this on Twitter and I think it perfectly describes what the US has become now:

Last edited by TomTV (December 23, 2025 1:35 am)

ckg927 · December 23, 2025 10:33 pm

RadioActive wrote:
(Apologies to SOWNY member ckg927 - it appears we were typing at the same time!)

Here's an interesting part of this story that concerns Canada - apparently, word never reached Global TV, which airs the show on this side of the border - and they showed the pulled piece during its regular run on Sunday. It no longer appears to be on their website, but it was also briefly there, as well.

"It seems that the Canadian television network Global TV uploaded and made Sunday night's original episode available for viewing. Though it may not still be up by the time you read this, based on social media reactions, it's been up long enough for folks to claim that they've saved a copy."

60 Minutes: Pulled Trump/CECOT Segment Airs on Global TV in Canada

And save it somebody did. Whoever it was put up a kinescope-like recording (off a TV screen) of the controversial segment and while the quality is poor, the piece is still there for all to see. You can find that here.

Here’s the ’60 Minutes’ Segment That Bari Weiss Spiked

First: No worries at all, RA. We're on the same wavelength. It DOES happen.

Second: CNN's Brian Stelter clears up the timeline....CBS shipped out the 60 Minutes episode to Global last Friday. Saturday, CBS told Global a new version was being sent. The NEW one aired on Global, but the OLD one was on Global's app(and presumably, could be streamed on Stack TV as well). And now, local CBS affiliates are getting an earful from their viewers.

Saul · December 23, 2025 10:53 pm

Here it is:

https://xcancel.com/DanaVanEffen906/status/2003290045650993474?fbclid=IwY2xjawO3h2BleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE5cFFBenZJUXgzd0tVbnpQc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHjkXnmlS5Ax86c57ALXT89BDt5S_bkEPUWWNjphLH3RrQDQV2s-9zj5p4vFu_aem_uzF8DO1k6eKJuZpZH7MIAw#m

Saul · December 23, 2025 10:56 pm

... and here ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiehEMlNiCI

Mavridis · December 24, 2025 2:08 am

RadioActive wrote:
Mavridis wrote:
RadioActive wrote:
I hate to get political here, although others don't. But I'm breaking my own rule because this story involves not only broadcasting, but perhaps its most famous and venerable news show - CBS' "60 Minutes." The show pulled a story on the brutal prison system that recent U.S deportees were being sent to under the current Administration.

The reason? The White House refused to comment on the yarn, causing its new far right leaning Editor-In-Chief to pull the exposé entirely. The news person behind the story complains that means all the government has to do now is not say anything about any controversial story and it will be cancelled for 'lack of balance,' a definite threat to journalism.
The assessment here is wrong. CBS's new 'editor-in-chief' (who, BTW, is not 'right wing') didn't spike the segment merely because it didn't include a White House reaction. But instead because a show like 60 Minutes should have tried harder to get an interview with one of the architects of the foreign prison program. The main reason it was shelved, according to Bari herself, was that there really wasn't anything new in there. Even the investigative elements weren't done by CBS; they were part of a volunteer college project that was run by another journalism program, and that wasn't even new. So, if there's nothing new here, why bother running it? Did you watch it? Considering the standards the show is meant to uphold, that segment felt more like something that was thrown together using Zoom and other people's work.

And can we please stop counting the revolutions per minute made in Murrow and Cronkite's respective graves already?! That was a million years ago. Both those men lamented the death of network news, long before they became history themselves. This is also not news.

I understand your connection to CBS News and wish to defend it. But this has done enormous damage to its reputation and as noted previously, if they'd just let it run as scheduled, it would likely be forgotten by now. Instead, it's now a thing and will stay a thing for a while.

And despite your defence, Ms. Weiss has little experience in this area - certainly not enough to be policing a show like 60 Minutes - and it does appear she wasn't exactly hired for her long resume in television journalism and TV news.

First, who said I'm defending CBS News? Or Bari Weiss? All I'm saying is everyone here got it wrong.

The 60 Minutes piece was not up to snuff. If they let it run as-is, CBS would have lowered its own bar just to please some idiots who think management was silencing some greater truth.

Just because standards and practices gave it a stamp of approval doesn’t mean it was groundbreaking journalism.   Internally, we all know this. And now that the internet has had a chance to watch it, I'm sure no one is really arguing that anymore. This was not the same as silencing a tobacco industry whistleblower.

For the record, Bari Weiss has quite a team of experienced news pros behind her. What she lacks in practical TV experience is countered by a very veteran team, including the President of News. Don’t ya think that maybe some of those segment suggestions might have come from them?

As for CBS’s influence… The funny thing about reputation is that it's based on perception, and not objectivity or truth. It's written by outsiders and rooted in bias. Ain’t that ironic.

Last edited by Mavridis (December 24, 2025 2:09 am)

RadioActive · December 24, 2025 2:54 pm

Mavridis wrote:
RadioActive wrote:
Mavridis wrote:
The assessment here is wrong. CBS's new 'editor-in-chief' (who, BTW, is not 'right wing') didn't spike the segment merely because it didn't include a White House reaction. But instead because a show like 60 Minutes should have tried harder to get an interview with one of the architects of the foreign prison program. The main reason it was shelved, according to Bari herself, was that there really wasn't anything new in there. Even the investigative elements weren't done by CBS; they were part of a volunteer college project that was run by another journalism program, and that wasn't even new. So, if there's nothing new here, why bother running it? Did you watch it? Considering the standards the show is meant to uphold, that segment felt more like something that was thrown together using Zoom and other people's work.

And can we please stop counting the revolutions per minute made in Murrow and Cronkite's respective graves already?! That was a million years ago. Both those men lamented the death of network news, long before they became history themselves. This is also not news.

I understand your connection to CBS News and wish to defend it. But this has done enormous damage to its reputation and as noted previously, if they'd just let it run as scheduled, it would likely be forgotten by now. Instead, it's now a thing and will stay a thing for a while.

And despite your defence, Ms. Weiss has little experience in this area - certainly not enough to be policing a show like 60 Minutes - and it does appear she wasn't exactly hired for her long resume in television journalism and TV news.

First, who said I'm defending CBS News? Or Bari Weiss? All I'm saying is everyone here got it wrong.

The 60 Minutes piece was not up to snuff. If they let it run as-is, CBS would have lowered its own bar just to please some idiots who think management was silencing some greater truth.

Just because standards and practices gave it a stamp of approval doesn’t mean it was groundbreaking journalism.   Internally, we all know this. And now that the internet has had a chance to watch it, I'm sure no one is really arguing that anymore. This was not the same as silencing a tobacco industry whistleblower.

For the record, Bari Weiss has quite a team of experienced news pros behind her. What she lacks in practical TV experience is countered by a very veteran team, including the President of News. Don’t ya think that maybe some of those segment suggestions might have come from them?

As for CBS’s influence… The funny thing about reputation is that it's based on perception, and not objectivity or truth. It's written by outsiders and rooted in bias. Ain’t that ironic.

I will let a former colleague of yours serve as my rebuttal.

I’m a former ‘60 Minutes’ producer. Here’s why this scandal raises concerns about corporate meddling in media

Also see this column from The Buffalo News' Alan Pregament:

'60 Minutes' reputation takes a self-imposed hit from CBS editor-in-chief

Your take on this from inside the organization may indeed be true. I don't know. But it does appear an increasing number of columnists and pundits, as well as other news people, disagree with you.

bbqguy1962 · December 24, 2025 6:19 pm

Mavridis wrote:
RadioActive wrote:
Mavridis wrote:

The assessment here is wrong. CBS's new 'editor-in-chief' (who, BTW, is not 'right wing') didn't spike the segment merely because it didn't include a White House reaction. But instead because a show like 60 Minutes should have tried harder to get an interview with one of the architects of the foreign prison program. The main reason it was shelved, according to Bari herself, was that there really wasn't anything new in there. Even the investigative elements weren't done by CBS; they were part of a volunteer college project that was run by another journalism program, and that wasn't even new. So, if there's nothing new here, why bother running it? Did you watch it? Considering the standards the show is meant to uphold, that segment felt more like something that was thrown together using Zoom and other people's work.

And can we please stop counting the revolutions per minute made in Murrow and Cronkite's respective graves already?! That was a million years ago. Both those men lamented the death of network news, long before they became history themselves. This is also not news.

I understand your connection to CBS News and wish to defend it. But this has done enormous damage to its reputation and as noted previously, if they'd just let it run as scheduled, it would likely be forgotten by now. Instead, it's now a thing and will stay a thing for a while.

And despite your defence, Ms. Weiss has little experience in this area - certainly not enough to be policing a show like 60 Minutes - and it does appear she wasn't exactly hired for her long resume in television journalism and TV news.

First, who said I'm defending CBS News? Or Bari Weiss? All I'm saying is everyone here got it wrong.

The 60 Minutes piece was not up to snuff. If they let it run as-is, CBS would have lowered its own bar just to please some idiots who think management was silencing some greater truth.

Just because standards and practices gave it a stamp of approval doesn’t mean it was groundbreaking journalism.   Internally, we all know this. And now that the internet has had a chance to watch it, I'm sure no one is really arguing that anymore. This was not the same as silencing a tobacco industry whistleblower.

For the record, Bari Weiss has quite a team of experienced news pros behind her. What she lacks in practical TV experience is countered by a very veteran team, including the President of News. Don’t ya think that maybe some of those segment suggestions might have come from them?

As for CBS’s influence… The funny thing about reputation is that it's based on perception, and not objectivity or truth. It's written by outsiders and rooted in bias. Ain’t that ironic.

I'm sorry, the US government sends people from Venezuela to El Salvador where they certainly appear to be tortured.

Help me out with where reporting that is not "up to snuff"

Assuming you're Canadian, outline where you would endorse our government doing the same thing.

TomTV · December 25, 2025 7:19 pm

from Robert Reich on Facebook:

Once you begin surrendering to Trump, he always wants more. You can’t appease a tyrant.

David Ellison’s CBS — after gutting DEI policies there, appointing right-wing hack Kenneth R. Weinstein to a new “ombudsman” role, and making anti-“woke” opinion journalist Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News (despite her lack of experience in either broadcasting or newsrooms) — removed a segment from “60 Minutes” featuring stories of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to what the program called a “brutal” prison in El Salvador. Bari Weiss had demanded changes to the segment.

The Ellisons — fils et père — have been seeking Trump’s support for their hostile bid to acquire Warner Bros Discovery, but Trump has been unhappy with recent episodes of “60 Minutes,” even under its new management.
Hence, the segment’s removal.

Sharyn Alfonsi, a long-standing “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported the segment that was removed, accused CBS News of pulling it for “political” reasons.

“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” she wrote in a note to the CBS News Team. “It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president. But that was when CBS News — the home of Edward R. Murrow (who also revealed to America the danger of Joe McCarthy) and Walter Cronkite — was independent of the rest of CBS. And when the top management of CBS felt they had independent responsibilities to the American public.

America can survive without a “60 Minutes” it can trust, just as we can survive without trustworthy editorial pages of the Washington Post. But at some point, as Trump continues to repress criticism of him and his regime, American democracy is compromised beyond repair.

We are coming to the end of only the first year of Trump II. He and the lapdogs and sycophants around him have done more damage to this nation in less than a year than I thought possible.

They have not been them alone in their destruction. They’ve had enablers in the form of billionaires such as Larry and David Ellison, along with quisling managers such as Bari Weiss, who confuse having money and power with possessing integrity and fostering the common good.

RadioActive · December 25, 2025 8:12 pm

RadioActive · December 25, 2025 8:19 pm

Every year, the Ruling Monarch of England (now the King) delivers an official Xmas address to the U.K. on the BBC.

But competitor Channel 4 always asks someone else to deliver an "alternative Christmas message."

This year's choice was an odd one - American talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, who may not even be a known name over there. He slammed the current U.S. government, in a rant that's bound to have some repercussions from the folks in Washington.

You can watch it below.

ckg927 · December 25, 2025 8:43 pm

Mavridis wrote:
RadioActive wrote:
Mavridis wrote:

The assessment here is wrong. CBS's new 'editor-in-chief' (who, BTW, is not 'right wing') didn't spike the segment merely because it didn't include a White House reaction. But instead because a show like 60 Minutes should have tried harder to get an interview with one of the architects of the foreign prison program. The main reason it was shelved, according to Bari herself, was that there really wasn't anything new in there. Even the investigative elements weren't done by CBS; they were part of a volunteer college project that was run by another journalism program, and that wasn't even new. So, if there's nothing new here, why bother running it? Did you watch it? Considering the standards the show is meant to uphold, that segment felt more like something that was thrown together using Zoom and other people's work.

And can we please stop counting the revolutions per minute made in Murrow and Cronkite's respective graves already?! That was a million years ago. Both those men lamented the death of network news, long before they became history themselves. This is also not news.

I understand your connection to CBS News and wish to defend it. But this has done enormous damage to its reputation and as noted previously, if they'd just let it run as scheduled, it would likely be forgotten by now. Instead, it's now a thing and will stay a thing for a while.

And despite your defence, Ms. Weiss has little experience in this area - certainly not enough to be policing a show like 60 Minutes - and it does appear she wasn't exactly hired for her long resume in television journalism and TV news.

First, who said I'm defending CBS News? Or Bari Weiss? All I'm saying is everyone here got it wrong.

The 60 Minutes piece was not up to snuff. If they let it run as-is, CBS would have lowered its own bar just to please some idiots who think management was silencing some greater truth.

Just because standards and practices gave it a stamp of approval doesn’t mean it was groundbreaking journalism.   Internally, we all know this. And now that the internet has had a chance to watch it, I'm sure no one is really arguing that anymore. This was not the same as silencing a tobacco industry whistleblower.

For the record, Bari Weiss has quite a team of experienced news pros behind her. What she lacks in practical TV experience is countered by a very veteran team, including the President of News. Don’t ya think that maybe some of those segment suggestions might have come from them?

As for CBS’s influence… The funny thing about reputation is that it's based on perception, and not objectivity or truth. It's written by outsiders and rooted in bias. Ain’t that ironic.

"For the record, Bari Weiss has quite a team of experienced news pros behind her." Yeah. More like hiring a Friends and Family program, as noted by Lachlan Cartwritght in his media newsletter Breaker. Are you aware that two of her deputies were hired from print media backgrounds-one from the New York Times editorial section, AND who worked for her at The Free Press....and someone else that was an editor for the Wall Street Journal? NEITHER of them have worked in broadcast media. And how about little quirk of having bodyguards shadowing her(and why does the EIC of CBS News NEED them)? Oh, and there's those town halls she keeps hosting to limited audiences. Is she management or on-air talent?

And just one more thing, sir: Cartwright noted that Weiss viewed the segment last Thursday morning(12/18). Notes were small and resolved with the producers. Promos started rolling on Friday and it was publicized. But on Saturday, "Weiss called a 'reverse ferret'". She wanted more voices and reporting. Cartwright wondered exactly what happened what happened in the intervening hours, and adds that in interviewing all of the key players in this matter, "no one seems to know". It's one thing to pull a story in print, but quite another to do it in broadcast media. People and viewers WILL notice and ask questions.

Mavridis · December 27, 2025 7:47 pm

"Are you aware that two of her deputies were hired from print media backgrounds?" Are YOU aware that Murrow came from print? And that, before he was America's most trusted news anchor, Walter Cronkite was a print guy, too? Who fucking cares?! This just sounds like arguing for the sake of arguing. And, for the record, EVERYONE from The Free Press is now a CBS employee - they were absorbed when Paramount bought them. That doesn’t mean we no longer have a ‘President’ and several VPs of News who’ve all spent decades in TV and still have a majority say in what happens on air. And, for the record, they were part of those meetings too. Someone here asked if I would endorse my country shipping undocumented migrants to a foreign prison. That's a stupid fucking question; and that's not what this is about. It's about a venerable news magazine that used to do its own investigative journalism but has now swapped that for substandard work and a political stance. The majority of what we’re reading is from former 60 Minutes producers and a couple of unnamed ‘insiders’ who obviously have a bone to pick. Don’t confuse this with an endorsement of the new bosses. I couldn’t care less. Instead, everyone seems to be missing the point, AGAIN; 60 Minutes needs to do better if it wants to stay on the air. Simply producing a one-sided story about something that's already been reported extensively, sound like one way to act like you’re standing up to authority. In reality, it’s just daring someone to make an example of your shitty work.

67GreenRambler · December 27, 2025 8:15 pm

Alfonsi should be fired.

ckg927 · December 28, 2025 9:17 pm

Mavridis wrote:
"Are you aware that two of her deputies were hired from print media backgrounds?" Are YOU aware that Murrow came from print? And that, before he was America's most trusted news anchor, Walter Cronkite was a print guy, too? Who fucking cares?! This just sounds like arguing for the sake of arguing. And, for the record, EVERYONE from The Free Press is now a CBS employee - they were absorbed when Paramount bought them. That doesn’t mean we no longer have a ‘President’ and several VPs of News who’ve all spent decades in TV and still have a majority say in what happens on air. And, for the record, they were part of those meetings too. Someone here asked if I would endorse my country shipping undocumented migrants to a foreign prison. That's a stupid fucking question; and that's not what this is about. It's about a venerable news magazine that used to do its own investigative journalism but has now swapped that for substandard work and a political stance. The majority of what we’re reading is from former 60 Minutes producers and a couple of unnamed ‘insiders’ who obviously have a bone to pick. Don’t confuse this with an endorsement of the new bosses. I couldn’t care less. Instead, everyone seems to be missing the point, AGAIN; 60 Minutes needs to do better if it wants to stay on the air. Simply producing a one-sided story about something that's already been reported extensively, sound like one way to act like you’re standing up to authority. In reality, it’s just daring someone to make an example of your shitty work.

"I couldn't care less." You cared enough to say that you don't. And I'd like to thank you for ripping the mask off and showing all of us your true self.

TomTV · January 3, 2026 2:50 pm

Let's see what bullshit excuse CBS is going to give this time...

CBS Folds Again, Cancels 60 Minutes Segment on Epstein Cover-up After DOJ Pressurehttps://dailyboulder.com/cbs-folds-again-cancels-60-minutes-segment-on-epstein-cover-up-after-doj-pressure/

ckg927 · January 4, 2026 12:07 pm

TomTV wrote:
Let's see what bullshit excuse CBS is going to give this time...

CBS Folds Again, Cancels 60 Minutes Segment on Epstein Cover-up After DOJ Pressurehttps://dailyboulder.com/cbs-folds-again-cancels-60-minutes-segment-on-epstein-cover-up-after-doj-pressure/

That article is attributed to a staff reporter, so there's no way to determine the veracity of that report one way or the other. Also, per the Media Bias Fact Check website, the website is based in Dallas, Texas,.

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RadioActive · January 4, 2026 12:16 pm

ckg927 wrote:
TomTV wrote:
Let's see what bullshit excuse CBS is going to give this time...

CBS Folds Again, Cancels 60 Minutes Segment on Epstein Cover-up After DOJ Pressurehttps://dailyboulder.com/cbs-folds-again-cancels-60-minutes-segment-on-epstein-cover-up-after-doj-pressure/

That article is attributed to a staff reporter, so there's no way to determine the veracity of that report one way or the other. Also, per the Media Bias Fact Check website, the website is based in Dallas, Texas,.

Yes, plus it appears they've pulled the article, because when you click on the link, you get a "404" error. Which leads me to believe it may have contained some inaccurate material.