CBS Joins the Billionaires’ Castration Chorus

Another Venerable Media Institution Falls to Trump

Three hours before airtime Sunday, CBS pulled a fully vetted 60 Minutes investigation into Trump’s deportation of Venezuelan men to a Salvadoran torture prison. If you’re experiencing déjà vu, you should be. This is the third act in American media’s most humiliating trilogy—and the most nakedly transactional yet.

Act One was Bezos in October, blocking The Washington Post‘s Harris endorsement eleven days before the election. Two hundred thousand subscribers fled. Three editorial board members quit. His Blue Origin executives met with Trump the same day he killed the endorsement. Bezos eventually wrote a craven op-ed about avoiding “perception of bias” while his government contracts hung in the balance.