CBS Pulls ’60 Minutes’ Segment Right Before Airing In An Alleged Political/Censoring Move [VIDEO]

Grown folks right after football on Sunday’s tune into ’60 Minutes’ an adult tradition since 1968 that gave us the down and dirty in the world before we had social media.  This past Sunday when CBS pulled a segment of ’60 Minutes’ at the last minute now has social media buzzing in what many are saying was a political move, in other words censorship. 

CBS News abruptly pulled a 60 Minutes segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men whom the Trump administration deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador from Sunday’s broadcast  even though it had apparently been fully fact-checked and legally vetted. 

CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly raised several issues after the network publicized the segment on Friday afternoon. These included the lack of participation from high-ranking Trump administration officials, and, per the New York Times, the use of the term “migrants” to describe the deportees.

In a memo to colleagues, 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi:

“Pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”

Canada ran the original version of the program and subsequently released it online. 60 Minutes had been slated to run the segment, which featured Sharyn Alfonsi as the correspondent and Oriana Zill de Granados as the producer speaking to Venezuelans who had been deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.

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