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the segment

I love that this being pulled ended up with it being watched by more people than it otherwise would…

It’s also worth noting that being in the country illegally is not actually a crime in the US. It’s a civil issue.

The criminal system seeks pnlunishment for a crime against society. The civil system seeks relief from famages, and can take many more forms.

If someone is convicted of a crime and pays a fine or serves their prison sentence, they’ve paid their debt to society and the matter is closed.

If you want to compel someone to do something or cease doing something, you need the civil system. For instance, if someone builds a fence over your property line, you need a civil ruling to force them to remove it.

The same thing goes for the government. Illegal immigration is a civil issue because it’s the only way for the ruling to compel the person to leave.

It’s hard to think of a story more newsworthy than a look inside the secret prison the US government is renditioning people to under some shady contract between authoritarian heads of state.

And some other places…

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So much interesting stuff continues to leak, and it’s wonderful that the episode already is online.

Here’s one quote from the NYT:

Then, around midnight at the end of Friday, less than 48 hours before the segment was set to air, Ms. Weiss weighed in again, this time with more substantial requests. She asked producers to add a last-minute interview with Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff — a relatively straightforward task for a print journalist who needs to only make a phone call, but a logistically difficult one in TV news, where a camera and lighting crew is often required.

“If we run the piece as is, we’d be doing our viewers a disservice,” Ms. Weiss wrote in her internal note, which “60 Minutes” producers viewed as a more critical assessment than the one she had offered earlier in the week.

So specifically, Weiss felt that if Stephen Miller - one of the most obvious bad faith propaganda-pushers of the administration to anyone with basic human sensory organs - specifically did not get screen time, it was a “disservice” to viewers. If you’re injecting medicine without poison, I guess it’s not balanced?

And later:

On the 9 a.m. call, Ms. Weiss said she wanted a newsroom “where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest editorial matters and do so with respect.”

Hours later, Ms. Alfonsi — who accused the network on Sunday night of pulling her segment for “political” reasons — raised those comments during the meeting with her “60 Minutes” colleagues. She said Ms. Weiss had not contacted her directly with her concerns.

“Disagreement requires discussion,” Ms. Alfonsi said.

Weiss, an opinion writer whose sole qualification is a willingness to platform and sanewash fascists, who was placed in an unearned position by a nepotistic CEO who also didn’t earn their power, didn’t even have the integrity or courage to talk about it with the senior correspondent. And if you read Alfonsi’s bio on CBS’s own site - winning Emmys and other awards, sure, but reporting from Kabul, school shootings, Epstein, and so on - you can see why Weiss may be mortified trying to pull rank with not even a tenth of that actual journalism resume.