US EditionStephen Miller calls on CBS News to fire ‘60 Minutes’ producers over ‘revolt’
Stephen Miller called for firing 60 Minutes staff after CBS pulled a segment on deportations to El Salvador's CECOT prison, fueling internal revolt and public backlash.
- On Tuesday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller demanded CBS fire producers involved in the revolt, using provocative rhetoric on Fox News and offering to send a face‑tattooed killer to a producer's home.
- On Tuesday, CBS News editor Bari Weiss requested numerous changes and a new interview with Miller for the segment, which was later pulled, according to reports.
- A leaked nearly 14-minute copy of the Inside CECOT segment briefly appeared on Global TV's app and online, documenting deportees' testimony of torture and abuse, intensifying backlash over CBS's block.
- Several veteran correspondents questioned Bari Weiss in a Monday meeting, prompting a managers' crisis meeting as CBS News morale fell to a 'dismal' state amid staff unrest.
- Corporate ownership dynamics could influence editorial decisions, as Weiss reports to Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, whose father Larry Ellison made a hostile bid after Netflix's $72 billion offer.
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller responded Tuesday to internal unrest at “60 Minutes,” after staffers objected to a decision to shelve a segment on deportations to El […] The post Watch: Stephen Miller Goes Scorched-Earth After '60 Minutes' Staff Caught Working to Protect Child Killers and Rapists appeared first on The Western Journal.
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