Bari Weiss faces blowback for spiking '60 Minutes' segment
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Weiss said that the segment, about Trump deportations to a harsh prison in El Salvador, needed to get principals on camera.
In October, billionaire David Ellison’s Skydance—backed by his father, Oracle founder and Trump ally Larry Ellison—acquired The Free Press for $150 million. Since then, Weiss has canceled a series of shows and fired dozens of staffers.
Monday on the RealClearPolitics radio show, Tom Bevan, Andrew Walworth, and White House reporter Phil Wegmann discuss Vice President Vance's attempt to consolidate the fracturing MAGA movement at Turning Point USA's convention this weekend,
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Bari Weiss’s Audience of One
A key goal of Donald Trump’s second term has been to use government power to place important media properties in the hands of loyalists who will bend coverage to the president’s will. Yesterday, the Trump-approved management at CBS duly held back a 60 Minutes report about the administration’s treatment of migrant detainees deported to El Salvador.