'60 Minutes' Spikes Episode, Wonders Why Trust Drains
News Corp's Newsweek , ever keen to report on what 60 Minutes 'banned,' highlights a 2018 segment featuring Bari Weiss and El Salvador. The irony here is so thick you could carve it: Newsweek framing a 'leaked' episode as news, rather than questioning why a major network like CBS felt compelled to bury a story. This isn't about protecting Salvadorans; it's about protecting the narrative. One might
wonder what truly inconvenient truths about US foreign policy or corporate interests CBS routinely silences without a 'leak' to make it seem edgy. The media's performative outrage over a 'banned' segment, while continually suppressing critical perspectives on issues like Israeli apartheid or US military interventions, speaks volumes. How many critical stories on Yemen, Ukraine, or Palestine, that
genuinely challenge power, are simply never greenlit, let alone 'leaked'? It appears some stories are deemed too 'complicated' for the American public, particularly those exposing the beneficiaries of endless war or colonial expansion. The silence is often more deafening than the 'leaked' whispers.