Following the information “60 Minutes” pulled a phase about Venezuelans being deported by the Trump administration, Bari Weiss addressed the CBS Information employees on Monday. The editor-in-chief known as the story “not prepared” and stated that it didn’t “advance the ball,” based on an individual who attended the assembly.
“I held a ’60 Minutes’ story as a result of it was not prepared,” Weiss stated in the course of the assembly. “Whereas the story introduced highly effective testimony of torture at CECOT, it didn’t advance the ball — the Occasions and different shops have beforehand completed related work. The general public is aware of that Venezuelans have been subjected to horrific therapy at this jail. To run a narrative on this topic two months later, we have to do extra.”
Weiss additionally stated that the information program wanted to get the principal interview topics “on the document and on digital camera.” The EIC then added that the viewers of “60 Minutes” come first, not the present’s scheduling.
“That’s my north star and I hope it’s yours, too,” she stated.
The “Inside CECOT” episode promised to dive into the “brutal and torturous situations” inside El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Middle.
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