One Courageous Correspondent CBS DESTROYING ITSELF!
One Courageous Correspondent What happened inside “60 Minutes” this weekend Dan Rather and Team Steady Dec 22 Credit: Michele Crowe/CBS CBS News “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is walking the walk . What she has done for journalism in the last two days is about as important, and courageous as it gets. With her cherished journalistic institution threatened, and her career on the line, Alfonsi is sounding the alarm that “60 Minutes” is sliding further into an increasingly irretrievable and dark place. The Steady team spoke to sources inside the broadcast today to find out exactly what happened when the new CBS News boss, Bari Weiss , spiked a highly promoted piece at the last minute. On background, we learned that Alfonsi and producer Oriana Zill de Granados had for months been working on a story about the Trump administration’s illegal deportations of Venezuelan migrants to CECOT, a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. They interviewed former inmates about the brut...