Overview
- In a Christmas Eve memo, Bari Weiss and co-signers Tom Cibrowski, Charles Forelle and Adam Rubenstein said the hold was an editorial call to rebuild public trust and ensure completeness.
- Weiss argued the piece was not ready and lacked full use of on-the-record statements from the White House, State Department and Department of Homeland Security.
- Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called the move political and warned that conditioning publication on administration participation risks a de facto kill switch, as internal tensions persisted.
- A version of the segment briefly appeared on Canada’s Global TV app and then spread online, while CBS said the report will run in a future broadcast after further reporting.
- Reporting indicates Weiss is preparing structural changes at CBS News, including creating a masthead to standardize editorial processes across shows.