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CBS News pulled a "60 Minutes" study connected El Salvador's CECOT situation conscionable hours earlier its scheduled Sunday broadcast, saying it would aerial astatine a aboriginal time.
"The broadcast lineup for tonight's variation of 60 Minutes has been updated," the programme posted connected societal media. "Our study 'Inside CECOT' volition aerial successful a aboriginal broadcast," the programme posted connected X and different societal media platforms 3 hours earlier it was slated to air.
A CBS News spokesperson said successful an email that the conception "needed further reporting."
The New York Times, citing a transcript of a enactment written by Sharyn Alfonsi, a analogous who reported the segment, said CBS pulled the conception for "political" reasons.
"Our communicative was screened 5 times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices," Alfonsi wrote successful the note, a transcript of which was obtained by the Times.
"It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, aft each rigorous interior cheque has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is simply a governmental one."
She added: "I notation each questions to Bari Weiss."
CBS News did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected the study extracurricular mean concern hours.
CECOT is a mega-prison in El Salvador wherever the U.S. has sent hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants without trial. It has been condemned by quality rights groups for its harsh conditions.
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CBS removed a nexus to the "Inside CECOT" conception leafage connected Sunday. The page, which antecedently featured a trailer, present displays "The leafage cannot beryllium found" message.
However, a statement connected its Paramount Plus website earlier said the conception was scheduled to aerial astatine 7:30 p.m. ET Sunday, with analogous Sharyn Alfonsi speaking to precocious released deportees astir the "brutal and torturous" conditions they had endured successful the prison.
The determination comes arsenic the web goes done changes nether Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, who was picked to lead CBS News successful October after CBS parent institution Paramount Skydance acquired the online work she founded, The Free Press.
Weiss, a erstwhile New York Times and Wall Street Journal sentiment writer, was considered by immoderate analysts arsenic a controversial prime arsenic she had ne'er managed a tv newsroom oregon produced broadcast quality contented before.
On December 10 she named Tony Dokoupil arsenic the caller anchor of its flagship "CBS Evening News" segment, replacing the dual anchor squad of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois.
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