Six months after Bari Weiss abruptly pulled correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi’s “60 Minutes” segment on torture in Salvadoran prisons off the air, CBS has declined to renew Alfonsi’s contract.
In a phone interview with Michael M. Grynbaum of The New York Times, Alfonsi, who at the time had called the decision to pull her segment “political,” said letting her deal expire “sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom. I think it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting.”
The way Dan Froomkin of Press Watch sees it, “Bari Weiss gets her revenge against Sharyn Alfonsi, the brave (and now former) ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent who went public after Weiss pulled her report on the El Salvadoran torture prison.”
“I had the great privilege of seeing Sharyn Alfonsi accept the Ridenhour Courage Prize (along with producer Bill Owens) a few weeks ago for her report on the CECOT prisoners,” says Michael Evans. “This is a huge loss for CBS and 60 Minutes.
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