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CBS reporter publicly shreds Bari Weiss takeover for spreading ‘corporate meddling and editorial fear’

The Independent·Bruce Golding·about 1 month ago
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The 60 Minutes correspondent who clashed with the head of CBS News over her report on migrants deported to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison issued a dire public warning this week about "corporate meddling" in journalism. Sharyn Alfonsi made a series of thinly veiled remarks critical of CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss during a speech Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington after receiving a Ridenhour Courage Prize for “life-long defense of the public interest and passionate commitment to social justice." “I will not linger on the internal mechanics of the dust-up at CBS that led to our CECOT story being pulled, but we have to be honest about what it represents,” she said, according to The Guardian . “It wasn’t an isolated editorial argument. In my view, it was the result of a more aggressive contagion: the spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear.…

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