Berkeley Human Rights Center Challenges CBS Decision to Pull '60 Minutes' El Salvador Prison Report

‘Editorial independence’ petition unlikely to faze Paramount CEO David Ellison amid Bari Weiss saga: ex-journo

Former CBS News journalists are reportedly planning to urge Paramount CEO David Ellison to ensure CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss respects "editorial independence," but an ex-staffer feels the polarizing news chief is simply doing what she was hired to do. Weiss, who was handpicked by Ellison and has irked some insiders by noting a lack of faith from the public in CBS and other mainstream media institutions, made headlines last week by delay…

CBS Pulls Report Challenging Trump Foreign Policy

According to the concept of “manufactured consent,” elaborated by Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman in the 1980s, the media carries out a propaganda function in support of the dominant political system. In the United States, this consent has favored particular governments beyond the U.S. government itself—for instance, Israel in its conflict with Palestinians. A recent example has been CBS, owned by David Ellison’s Paramount and under Bari Weiss’s edit…

Who is Bari Weiss, pro-Israeli right-winger reshaping US media?

Bari Weiss, editor-in-chief of CBS News, has been dominating news headlines following her alarming decision not to air the network’s investigative report on conditions at El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. Decades earlier, Weiss got her start in controversial politics by trying to blacklist Palestinian professors while she was a student at Columbia University in New York. She later founded the University of Austin, an unaccredited "anti-woke"…

Journalists Draft Protest Memo to Paramount Boss David Ellison Over Spiked 60 Minutes Report

(Sipa USA via AP) A growing group of former CBS News journalists is preparing to confront the network’s new owner David Ellison, chief of Paramount Skydance, demanding “editorial independence” after a 60 Minutes investigation into deported migrants was abruptly pulled from air. In a petition addressed to Ellison and published by the New York Post, signatories warn that CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s decision to spike the report represents…

Berkeley Human Rights Center challenges CBS decision to pull '60 Minutes' El Salvador prison report

HRC's co-faculty director Alexa Koenig said her team was "surprised" to learn the segment had been shelved despite clearing CBS's extensive legal and editorial review. Berkeley researchers had spent months corroborating detainees' accounts using geolocation, image analysis, and other opensource methods.

Boo-Hoo at CBS: Journos Throw Tantrum Over Editor Actually Editing: Demand 'Independence' from Standards

CBS journalists protest editorial oversight after segment on Salvadoran prison is pulled.