'Appalling': Katie Couric Blasts CBS News Chief For Pulling '60 Minutes' Segment
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"This is what happens when network owners are beholden to an administration for their business transactions."
Former CBS News anchor Katie Couric on Monday called out the new leadership at her old network after CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss abruptly yanked a “60 Minutes” segment on the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador.
“This is the kind of censorship journalists at CBS feared,” wrote Couric, once a part-time “60 Minutes” correspondent, in a post to her Instagram page. “It’s appalling but not surprising. And now it’s happening — what a disgrace.”
After Paramount-Skydance absorbed Weiss’ Free Press newsletter and picked her as the network’s news chief, Couric warned that the move would be “compromising independent journalism,” The New York Post reported.
Couric was also among a sea of critics who criticized CBS and its leadership in the months since Paramount agreed to pay President Donald Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit against “60 Minutes.” The settlement occurred ahead of Paramount’s merger with Skydance, which required the Trump administration’s approval.
In remarks at the Gracies Leadership Awards in New York last month, Couric said she was “mortified” that Trump “basically extorted” CBS so the merger would go through. She made a nod to the chilling effects of the merger on Monday, writing: “This is what happens when network owners are beholden to an administration for their business transactions.”
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