There was a thread months ago just on newspaper self-censorship, but it’s more than that.
60 Minutes Abruptly Yanks Segment on Prisoners Sent By Trump to El Salvador Mega-Prison
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. . . .
The CBS News website also yanked its teaser clip of the report down from its website. Here is what that page looks like now:
The page cannot be found
A CBS News spokesperson told Puck reporter Dylan Byers that its editorial team “determined it needed additional reporting.”
Britain not America, but there is a lot of speculation that Diana Morgan BBC Christmas special was just cancelled because of jokes about Trump, in the wake of the lawsuit…
More on CBS pulling the story on the El Salvador terror prison:
New York Times
CBS News said in a statement that the segment would air at a later date and “needed additional reporting.”
Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported the segment, rejected that criticism in a private note to CBS colleagues on Sunday, in which she accused CBS News of pulling the segment for “political” reasons.
“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” Ms. Alfonsi wrote in the note, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times. “It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”