CBS News head Bari Weiss’s decision to “spike” a “60 Minutes’ segment detailing the horrific treatment of migrants sent by President Donald Trump’s administration to a brutal maximum security prison in El Salvador looks even worse now that the video clip was leaked online.
On Tuesday morning, the hosts of “Morning Joe” revealed that they had watched it and were incredulous that it was considered incomplete and needing more work, as Weiss later complained in a memo to CBS staffers.
Co-host Joe Scarborough took the lead in raking Weiss over the coals, telling his colleagues, “Oh, come on! This is the most ridiculous thing.”
Pointing to Weiss’s highly-publicized departure from the New York Times, he added, “And I think a certain person that used to write at the New York Times complained that whenever liberal editors wanted to scrap a conservative op-ed, they would scrub every single line. And that’s exactly what happened here. Except now, of course, the shoe, once again, is on the other foot.”
Co-host Willie Geist chimed in, “And of course, ’60 Minutes’ again and again and again approached this administration for comment. They would have loved to have all these people sit in the chair, be on camera and answer these questions. But as they say in the report, the administration declined.”
“I know you guys talked about this yesterday, but it can’t be said enough that particularly ’60 Minutes’, but all news organizations running a piece like this, whether it’s television or print, they’re not ‘Whoops!’ he added. “It’s just a gauntlet of weeks of lawyers and standards and reporters and editors and producers and then the executives.”
“And also the idea that part of Bari Weiss’s explanation was, ‘Well, people know about this. We need to advance the story,’ Now, first of all, journalistically that’s somewhat true,” co-host Jonathan Lemire remarked. “But at the same time, these are very different audiences. Like there’s a ’60 Minutes’ audience which is different than the New York Times audience.”
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