Ex-‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Says CBS News Execs Asked for Segment Changes That “Came From a Place of Misinformation”
Vega said managers pushed false or misleading language into three stories, including a claim about nonexistent ICE footage and a misidentified memoir.
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Ex-‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Says CBS News Execs Asked for Segment Changes That “Came From a Place of Misinformation”
Cecilia Vega alleged that higher-ups requested changes to three of her segments from this year that she could did find evidence for, per the Times.
Cecilia Vega names 3 60 Minutes stories CBS tried to meddle with
When she was fired from 60 Minutes back in May, correspondent Cecilia Vega wrote that she experienced “efforts to insert political bias into our stories.” Now, in some of her first public-facing comments since her departure, Vega is offering specifics about those stories and the bias that she was told to insert. It likely won’t come as a surprise that the changes requested from the higher-ups were changes that were more flattering to the Trump a…
Cecilia Vega accuses CBS News bosses of pushing false claims into her reporting
Fired “60 Minutes” correspondent Cecilia Vega went public with detailed accusations that CBS News management tried to inject misinformation into three of her reports, charges the network has dismissed as “not based in reality.” Vega, the first Latina correspondent in the history of “60 Minutes,” laid out her case at the National Association of Hispanic...
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