CBS pulled a “60 Minutes” segment on Venezuelan migrants who were sent to El Salvador’s notorious maximum-security prison, CECOT, just hours before its scheduled Sunday broadcast time.
The episode, which was scheduled to air at 7:30 ET on Sunday, was set to show correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewing recently released deportees who experienced “brutal and torturous” conditions at the hellhole prison, according to an earlier description on its Paramount Plus website.
A CBS News spokesperson said in an email to Reuters that the segment “needed additional reporting.”
However, in a Sunday email sent to fellow correspondents, Alfonsi blasted the decision to postpone the segment, alleging Weiss had “spiked our story,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
Alfonsi added that the choice to delay the airtime was political, not a journalistic judgement, according to the email reviewed by the outlet.
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