[Disclaimer: The report may already have been shown, and it was missed.] Well, isn’t this an interesting kettle of fish? It seems we’re going to see CECOT anyhow. We’ll have to decide whether we want to view it. With the few pictures that have made it out, chances are it’s going to be rough. This is not a place to go to involuntarily. It’s deliberately abusive. The intent of this place seems to be ‘Abandon hope all ye who enter here’. And the US is paying El Salvador millions to incarcerate our ‘criminals’, when they do not have a criminal record. Just like ICE, cruelty is the point. With gratitude to Raw Story:
CBS News is reportedly set to air its “60 Minutes” report on the brutal CECOT prison in El Salvador Sunday night, per reporting Sunday from CNN’s Brian Stelter, albeit after getting snubbed by Trump administration officials when asked for comment. Last month, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss controversially pulled the report just hours before it was set to air, a decision that Weiss didn’t realize “would be a big deal,” a nod to her “TV inexperience,” Stelter wrote. The report’s focus was on migrants that had been deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s notoriously violent and deadly prison, but was canned by Weiss because it lacked on-camera interviews with members of the Trump administration.
Heh. Yea no. She pulled it because she was afraid of the Trump administration and didn’t want to catch flak from them for airing it. But it was broadcast by the Canadian network, because they weren’t told to keep it off the airwaves. We all knew about it and what she did. She is not qualified for the position. She’s in there as a cipher. She does what she’s told, just not in public. Appearances must be kept up.
To remedy her grievances with the report, Weiss signed off on flying several CBS News producers to Washington, D.C. to arrange interviews with members of the Trump administration. “But the promised interview did not materialize,” Stelter wrote, citing two sources who spoke with CNN under the condition of anonymity.
Everyone went home empty-handed.” When Weiss first axed the report last month, it had been fully vetted by CBS News’ legal team and ready for airing. Weiss’ decision was so late in the process that CBS News had already shared a copy of the report with a Canadian network authorized to air “60 Minutes,” which ended up broadcasting the report and stunning media analysts and critics.
Oooooops. She obviously does *not* know how to keep her ducks in a row. Now she’s been publicly embarrassed and is trying to walk back earlier information. Too late. Go with the no comment. We’ll wonder what she’s trying to hide, but it’s still safer. She can backtrack later and put out a comment that says nothing and everything at once.
Furthermore, the broadcast of the report in its original form last month will allow media critics to “compare the original report to the Weiss-approved version that airs tonight,” Stelter wrote. The Trump administration has sent around 250 migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT prison as part of its broader mass deportation policy. The New York Times spoke with 40 former inmates of CECOT back in November who recounted what they described as the prison’s “institutional policy and practice of torture.”
Mmmmm, no, not going to watch this, not after those comments. Just … not a good idea. If anyone sees it, please let me know what you think. I’m curious. I’m not curious enough to watch it, just like I didn’t watch the Renee clips. I know my limits, and I don’t want to have nightmares. And Bari Weiss? She’s digging a hole for herself that may need a ladder to get out of it. [The title of the piece I used is hilarious! CBS News to air ‘torched’ prison report after getting snubbed by Trump admin: report.] I think I’m off my game. My apologies. I gotta get it back. See you soon!
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