Can’t air anything that might upset the dear cult leader right? All broadcast corporate media must please the dictator to make a profit, or pay the dictator tribute. What a waste. Again if a democrat had tried this republicans would have howled every few minutes on their paid media arms of their party. Not a peep out of the democratic party about it? Hugs
60 Minutes Abruptly Yanks Segment on Prisoners Sent By Trump to El Salvador Mega-Prison
Dec 21st, 2025, 6:44 pm
(Photo Credit: 60 Minutes)
60 Minutes postponed a segment on the maximum security prison in El Salvador that President Donald Trump sent suspected gangsters and illegal immigrants to, only a few hours before the report was set to air on Sunday.
The CBS program had been planning to air the segment titled “Inside CECOT,” referring to El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo.
Here is the brief editor’s note that 60 Minutes posted to X about the report getting bumped:
“The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report ‘Inside CECOT’ will air in a future broadcast.”
The CBS News website also yanked its teaser clip of the report down from its website. Here is what that page looks like now:
A CBS News spokesperson told Puck reporter Dylan Byers that its editorial team “determined it needed additional reporting.”
The segment was being reported by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi and produced by Oriana Zill de Granados.
Paramount Skydance, the parent company of CBS, shared the following teaser for the report on Friday:
Earlier this year, the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, a country most had no ties to, claiming they were terrorists. This move sparked an ongoing legal battle, and nine months later the U.S. government still has not released the names of all those deported and placed in CECOT, one of El Salvador’s harshest prisons.
It added Alfonsi would be speaking to “some of the now released deportees, who describe the brutal and torturous conditions they endured inside CECOT.”
CECOT has been described by outlets like ABC News as a “mega-prison.” It opened in 2023 as part of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s push to arrest and imprison more gang members. Inmates taunted a handful of Democratic and Republican lawmakers when they toured CECOT in May.
President Trump said he was “very impressed” with the prison earlier this year and that he would “love” to send American crooks there.
CBS did not mention when it plans on running the segment down the line.
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one other thought, too: some things are often too grisly or painful to watch. This well could be one of them…
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Hi Judy. I agree that some things are so horrible just seeing it causes deep distress. But this was simply a news report that would have shown the tRump administration and Stephen Miller in particular in a clearly horrible abusive act. It would have embarrassed the White House badly. Bari Weiss was placed in her position that she is unqualified for just so she could do things like this, save face for the tRump admin. That is why she is in charge of the news of CBS now, to kill anything that makes tRump look bad. Hugs
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This pull pissed me off when I read about it. Could be legitimate reasons for pulling it but the way that they did it, not really communicating about the why beyond a vague statement, makes me think the worse, that another media conglomerate is giving cover to Trump. Hugs
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Hi Michael. From what I read from the reporters who made the segment it was triple checked with both the legal staff and the compliance standards board. It really does seem that Bari Weiss was put there by the right wing billionaire David Ellison to simply kill anything that is bad for tRump, his admin, his feelings, and his henchmen. Hugs
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I just read that, too, Scottie. Thanks for the follow up. Be strong. Hugs ‘n cheers
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