December 22, 2025

From Showbiz411 yesterday, the egregious story of Bari Weiss yanking the plug on a major story:

Tonight, “60 Minutes” was supposed to air a controversial subject covered thoroughly in print this week.

The story was about Trump and something called CECOT — aka Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, the El Salvadoran prison where he was sending Venezuelans.

But now the newly conservative network has pulled the plug, announcing there will be no segment even though it was promoted. CBS says it will air sometime in the future. But it’s very rare for a “60 Minutes” piece to get axed right before showtime. This reeks of new CBS News editor in chief, conservative website owner Bari Weiss, who’s been given control of the department.

[...]This is all bad news as Weiss has cleared out the “Evening News” to install a puppet in Tony Doukopil. She’s getting ready to oust the anchors from “CBS Mornings.” Her vision of CBS News is a Fox News lite after not being able to hire that network’s Bret Baier.

CBS has erased all links to the segment on all social media. But they left behind this description on Paramount Plus:

Earlier this year, the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, a country most had no ties to, claiming they were terrorists. This move sparked an ongoing legal battle, and nine months later the U.S. government still has not released the names of all those deported and placed in CECOT, one of El Salvador’s harshest prisons. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi speaks with some of the now released deportees, who describe the brutal and torturous conditions they endured inside CECOT. Oriana Zill de Granados is the producer.

UPDATE from today's Daily Beast:

Bari Weiss, the network’s new editor-in-chief, allegedly made the decision just three hours before the show was due to air because it “needed additional reporting,” and suggested the program would benefit from an interview with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.

Why would you need to put a pause on a story that has been meticulously fact-checked and lawyered?

Sounds like the kind of story you’d want to run right away!

Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) 2025-12-22T02:16:22.212Z

wow — @60Minutes yanks a segment about Trump sending immigrants to prison in El Salvador, describing “brutal and torturous conditions”

🔔 CBS NEWS(MAX) is officially cooked under Bari Weiss 🚨

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-12-21T23:38:39.713Z

try here for CECOT-

youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc

PCalico (@alicopc.bsky.social) 2025-12-21T23:41:47.388Z

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