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CBS, Bari Weiss facing mounting backlash from liberal critics over yanking '60 Minutes' segment
CBS News and Bari Weiss are facing backlash from liberal critics after they yanked a "60 Minutes" segment about CECOT on Sunday after promoting it.

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Bari Weiss Faces Backlash For Pulled Cecot 60 Minutes Segment — 12:30 Report | TRENDING
Bari Weiss On Decision to Preempt ‘60 Minutes’ Story: “It Was Not Ready”
Veteran 60 Minutes journalist hits out after Trump deportation story is pulled just hours before airtime as news boss Bari Weiss addresses backlash
60 Minutes has abruptly pulled a segment on the Trump administration's deportation of migrants to a notorious El Salvador prison just hours before it was set to air - prompting some to accuse new CBS ...

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CBS defends pulling 60 Minutes segment about Trump deportations
“60 Minutes” Segment Pulled by CBS' New Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, a Decision Its Correspondent Calls ‘Political’
CBS shelves ‘60 Minutes’ story on Trump deportees at the last minute: ‘People are threatening to quit,’ staffers say
The trigger: CBS News suddenly shelved a segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

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Bari Weiss Defends Pulling ‘60 Minutes’ Report on ‘Horrific Treatment’ of Detainees Sent by Trump White House to El Salvador Prison: ‘We Simply Need to Do More’
Bari Weiss Made a ‘Political’ Decision to Kill ‘60 Minutes’ Segment on the ‘Brutal’ El Salvador Prison Where Trump Administration Sent Deportees: Report

Tensions rise at CBS News as new editor Bari Weiss postpones El Salvador prison report on '60 Minutes'

In a memo to her colleagues explaining her decision, Weiss said the episode lacked voices to balance the story and content to elevate it above other news outlets that have reported on an already heavily covered topic.