Hear the '60 Minutes' segment and ask "why was this controversial?"

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Hear the '60 Minutes' segment and ask "why was this controversial?"

The Ron Show

44 minutes 29 seconds

2 weeks ago

Hear the '60 Minutes' segment and ask "why was this controversial?"

The now-infamous '60 Minutes' segment pulled at the 11th hour by CBS News head Bari Weiss has surfaced anyway, notably because Bari doesn't realize how affiliate relations and marketing works in the TV business, but after watching it (you get to hear it - also shared @RonShowATL on X and BlueSky), Ron's left wondering what the big deal was.

A similar '60 Minutes' story on the same el Salvadoran hellhole prison at CECOT aired in April; Ron spotlighted it, then. So okay, maybe Weiss' insistence that Sharyn Alfonsi's story didn't move the story "forward" has some merit, but then why did Weiss miss five screenings then essentially sign off on it Thursday, then again Friday before having a last-minute change-of-heart? Makes no sense, and ⁠now the organization's in chaos⁠.

Weiss, we learned, pressed for someone from Homeland Security or the Trump administration to go on camera, to which Alfonsi and producers said they'd been invited and declined. Ron's hunch (and that of Alfonsi, too)? The "wait til they go on camera prior to airing" gambit is a ⁠tacit "kill switch"⁠ to stories the Trump White House wants bogged down.

Ron walks through what the report revealed, why journalists inside 60 Minutes pushed back, and how the unaired segment ultimately leaked online anyway. Along the way, he explores the larger questions raised by the decision: media independence, political pressure, and what happens when powerful interests collide with journalism.

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