What the Trump Administration Is Buying With CBS's Reputation
The administration's story about the Renee Good shooting was falling apart. CBS gave them the credibility to put it back together.
In December, CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss killed a 60 Minutes segment about Venezuelan migrants being tortured in El Salvador’s CECOT prison. The segment, reported by veteran correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, had been cleared by CBS’s lawyers. It had been cleared by the network’s Standards and Practices division. It had been screened multiple times. …
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