60 Minutes stops reporting news and joins the Trump propaganda machine... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reminder 59699: DO NOT COMPLY! This bullshit only continues when we let fear dictate our decisions. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Our democracy depends on a free press—not one where an administration can block any reporting they don't like from the air. We need answers ASAP.

“...If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” wrote the segment's lead reporter Sharyn Alfonsi. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... We are truly lost if we ALLOW THIS! Ok AMERICANS it’s time to stand up and BOYCOTT them protest them!!

‘I ultimately had to comply’: ‘60 Minutes’ EP faces fallout after Bari Weiss shelves story The executive producer of “60 Minutes” responded to criticism after CBS News abruptly pulled a segment on the Trump administration’s deportations, telling colleagues in a private meeting Monday that she sto

Weiss was wrong to hold this up. Homeland Security refused to comment already. -> www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

‘I ultimately had to comply’: ‘60 Minutes’ EP faces fallout after Bari Weiss shelves story The segment on the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT prison was postponed after the Trump administration refused to grant the network an interview www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

‘I ultimately had to comply’: ‘60 Minutes’ EP faces fallout after Bari Weiss shelves story www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

‘I ultimately had to comply’: ‘60 Minutes’ EP faces fallout after Bari Weiss shelves story www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The CBS segment’s correspondent, Alfonsi, called the decision “political” in an internal email to producers: “If the Trump admin's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” she wrot

“Though the segment wasn’t aired in the United States, it was briefly made available in Canada.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“We’re incredibly proud of you, Sharyn, and everybody else on this story,” Scott Pelley . . . said during the meeting. “You are doing exactly what you’re supposed to do — what this broadcast is about. And I think you’re going to find all of us standing and cheering around you.”

“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” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Journalists at CBS (owned by a pro-Trump billionaire) put together a story on how this admin sent immigrants to be tortured at CECOT — then CBS leadership killed it. Our democracy depends on a free press that can do its job without censorship. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“What is happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment and if executives think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism that might offend the Mad King they are about to learn a tough lesson,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) wrote on X. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...


Weiss was named CBS’s top editor this fall after David Ellison’s newly formed Paramount Skydance bought the Free Press, the opinion website she founded, for $150 million. While the two properties are still technically separate, Weiss runs both. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The executive producer of “60 Minutes” said she “ultimately had to comply” with CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss and pull a segment on the Trump administration’s deportations, according to a partial transcript of the meeting obtained by The Post.