New CBS News head Bari Weiss has violated one of the core principles of journalism: do not become the story. Over the weekend, mutiny erupted when CBS News staff realized she’d personally vetoed a bombshell 60 Minutes segment on the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador.
Titled “Inside CECOT”, the meticulously researched segment featuring inmates revealing the “torture, sexual and physical abuse” they suffered in “four months of hell”. Naturally, this would be highly embarrassing to the Trump administration, which would rather you not know what’s going on in CECOT.
