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.”
Pelley’s pointed remarks about the newsroom’s leader came during the show’s Monday afternoon meeting, where Sharyn Alfonsi – the segment’s reporter – took issue with Weiss’ lack of communication over the story’s last-minute postponement while 60 Minutes executive producer Tanya Simon defended Alfonsi’s reporting.
