Fake Standards & Real Pro-Trump Censorship: 60 Minutes, CBS News, Bari Weiss, Paramount-Skydance, the Ellisons, & the Trumps
Fake “standards” become real censorship: the segment Bari Weiss & the Ellisons do not want you to see—a cleared 60 Minutes report vanished, and why that matters for power and truth, as corporate calculus meets state cruelty on the Cecot story’s path to the cutting room floor’ the demand for a Stephen Miller cameo wasn’t “balance”—it was veto…
The Trump Administration refused to be interviewed by 60 Minutes for this segment on El Salvador’s prison camps and migrants to the U.S. deported by I.C.E. Bari Weiss declared that the segment could not be aired without a segment interviewing a Trump Administration senior official. Full stop.
Alison Gill: WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment <https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment>: ‘I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat. The segment apparently aired on Canada’s Global TV app and was shared by this Bluesky user jasonparis.bsky.social. You can watch the entire segment below! Please share widely!…
I think she probably sincerely believes an investigative team at 60 minutes would have a difficult time getting in touch with stephen miller, or that they haven’t thought about the language they’re using…
I am not so sure. There is serious money involved in keeping Trump not-sour on the Ellisons and on Paramount Skydance. Their view may be that this will simply blow over—and, if it doesn’t, if CBS News collapses, well it was never going to be a profit center for Paramount Skydance anyway, but was only a point of vulnerability. The plutocratic Ellisons almost surely know by now that the kleptocratic Trumps view them not as their allies but as their prey. But they may think that the Trumps have them by the plums, and that a short-run libtard media storm is of very little account.
After all, give it a month, and the Atlantic will be happy to run another “Bari Weiss confounds critics!” story, won’t it?
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