CBS News Discovers Horrors Are Only Newsworthy When Convenient
When 60 Minutes 'postpones' an investigation into a 'brutal prison' where the US has deported hundreds—a prison the UN and human rights groups have condemned for its systemic abuses (source: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch reports on El Salvador's state of exception)—one might wonder what 'additional reporting' really entails. Is it a sudden, unforeseen shortage of video editors, or
perhaps a sudden attack of editorial discretion when human rights violations happen too close to US policy? After all, the Trump administration actively sent migrants to this very system, a detail CBS itself notes. It appears some state-sanctioned cruelty is simply deemed less urgent for primetime consumption, especially when it implicates past US administrations. The collective media amnesia
around how we got here—funding regimes that then create these very 'brutal' conditions—is as predictable as it is infuriating. How many 'additional reports' does it take before such prisons become too uncomfortable to ignore?