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CBS News Under Fire for Scrapping Reporting Critical of Trump's Deportation Agenda

2025-12-23 News & Politics
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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The new head of CBS News, Bari Weiss, is facing accusations of censorship after she abruptly canceled a segment from Sunday's episode of "60 Minutes" just three hours before broadcast. The segment centered on the stories of Venezuelan immigrants sent to El Salvador's brutal CECOT prison by the Trump administration. "When so much of our ability to communicate out facts to the world is concentrated in a small number of people, and there's a squeezing of independent media and the ability to get independent perspectives and voices out more broadly, I think we're working with an information ecosystem that is highly dangerous," says Alexa Koenig of the Human Rights Center at University of California, Berkeley. The center's research on torture and other human rights violations at CECOT was to be featured in the segment. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

Top Comments (10)

@Arisaem 2025-12-23

The funny thing is that they aired it in Canada, so all the information is already out there.

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@VCRJackie 2025-12-23

Only one way to hit cbs… hit their pockets. Boycott them !

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@ObiMomKenobi13 2025-12-23

CBS is done. So many of us are finished paying companies that look the other way while people commit atrocities.

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@bk9852 2025-12-23

Frontline/ProPublica Surviving CECOT: They don't kiss the ring

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@surenperera9288 2025-12-23

That fact that Bari Weiss used to run an outlet called 'The Free Press' and then goes on to push pro-government censorship is just too on-the-nose hypocrisy.

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@thebulldog-vi3oq 2025-12-23

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.” - George Orwell

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@ritalagunas764 2025-12-23

This is a horrible story 😞 Who are we? Not America 😢

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@GTC7702 2025-12-23

Noem, among others, need to pay the consequences for this!

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@umich79 2025-12-23

Once a beacon of solid journalism. RIP CBS news. Very sad.

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@francesca7093 2025-12-23

That is so EVIL. 😢😢😢😢

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