Banned ‘60 Minutes’ Episode Leaked Online
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Spiked ’60 Minutes’ Segment Spreads Online After Canadian TV Network Posts Unedited Episode
The 60 Minutes segment that was spiked by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss for not being ready is now readily available online, after the network that airs the show in Canada ran the original version of the program and subsequently released it online.
New details are shedding light on Bari Weiss’ contentious eleventh-hour decision to hold a 60 Minutes report on Sunday. Weiss, the controversial new editor-in-chief of CBS News, brought the credibility of the network’s flagship program into question after pulling a segment that detailed the grisly conditions at an El Salvador megaprison where Venezuelan men deported by Donald Trump were held.
Following Bari Weiss’ much-derided decision to spike a 60 Minutes segment on the Trump administration shipping Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, correspondent Scott Pelley said Weiss needed to take her job as CBS News editor-in-chief “more seriously” as it wasn’t “part-time.”