Inside Bari Weiss's Hostile Takeover of CBS News

Reporting cited here

1. reported

   Weiss said stories may be held when they lack context or critical voices; correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called the CECOT hold political and argued that the administration's refusal to be interviewed was being used to stop the report.

   Weiss statement and Alfonsi message after the CECOT report was pulled

   Bari Weiss held a scheduled CBS report on Trump deportees sent to CECOT · Pulled from the December 21, 2025 broadcast

2. reported

   The New Yorker reported that CBS's CECOT segment about people deported under Trump had passed fact-checking, legal review, and five editorial screenings before CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss sought an on-camera administration response and pulled it from the lineup three hours before broadcast.

   CECOT segment review process, administration-interview request, and Sunday broadcast hold

   Bari Weiss held a scheduled CBS report on Trump deportees sent to CECOT · Pulled from the December 21, 2025 broadcast