'60 Minutes' Journalist Who Accused CBS of Political Meddling Loses Her Deal (New York Times Gift Article)

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Sharyn Alfonsi, whose segment on a brutal Salvadoran prison was pulled abruptly in December, said that CBS News and its top editor, Bari Weiss, had let her contract expire.

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CBS News declined to renew its contract with the “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, six months after her segment on torture in Salvadoran prisons was pulled off the air abruptly by the news division’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss.

Ms. Alfonsi’s deal expired on Saturday. She said in a phone interview that her agent’s inquiries with CBS News over the past several weeks had been met with silence.

“It sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom,” Ms. Alfonsi said. “I think it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting.”

Ms. Alfonsi remains employed at CBS, but with no contract in place, she said she had no expectation of returning to “60 Minutes.” “I’m not resigning,” she said. “If they want me gone because I did my job, they’ll have to fire me.”....

Ms. Alfonsi has contributed to “60 Minutes” since 2015. She was at the center of a firestorm in December after Ms. Weiss, who was appointed by CBS’s new owner, David Ellison, pulled a 13-minute segment that Ms. Alfonsi had reported on harsh conditions faced by Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration.

At the time, Ms. Alfonsi called the decision “political” in an email to colleagues. Ms. Weiss rejected that charge, saying that the reporting “was not ready”; she had suggested several last-minute editorial changes, including that the reporters seek an interview with Stephen Miller, the architect of President Trump’s immigration policy.

The segment eventually aired in its entirety one month later, with additional comments from the Trump administration tacked on. Ms. Alfonsi continued to appear on “60 Minutes” through the end of this season, which concluded on May 17.

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1. The network of Murrow, Sevareid and Cronkite

Is dead.

The tradition of the free press has now been turned into SEE BS!

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2. CBS boots '60 Minutes' reporter who refused to sanitize deportation story: reports

CBS is owned by trump. Here is one more reason to boycott CBS

CBS boots '60 Minutes' reporter who refused to sanitize deportation story: reports

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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-deal-2676966221/

Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi says CBS News has effectively pushed her out after she refused to alter her explosive report on the Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelan men to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison — and stood her ground against network boss Bari Weiss.

Alfonsi's contract expired earlier this month, and CBS News executives have made no effort to contact her representatives at talent agency UTA to negotiate a renewal, according to Variety. Her producers have been reassigned. She remains an at-will CBS employee and will continue to be paid, but she can no longer do the work of a working correspondent.

"I think it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting," Alfonsi told the New York Times.

The clash with Weiss, CBS News's controversial editor in chief, erupted in December when Weiss pulled the "Inside CECOT" segment hours before it was set to air, saying it needed comment from a Trump administration official — even though Alfonsi's team had already invited the White House, DHS, and State Department to participate. All declined.

In an internal memo, Alfonsi warned that making government participation a condition of airing a story would hand the administration a "kill switch" over 60 Minutes' journalism. The segment finally aired in January, but in a low-viewership slot opposite the NFL playoffs.

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3. Weiss doesn't want to offend her orange master.