Cecilia Vega says CBS editors pushed coverage of events 'that never happened'
Cecilia Vega says she was pressured by Bari Weiss and other CBS execs to include misinformation and political bias in reporting that aired this year. "Never in my career, until now, have I felt that those edits, that those suggestions, came from a place of misinformation or politics."
CJ McGuinness45Following the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota, Vega said she was encouraged to include video of protesters assaulting people they believed were undercover ICE agents. According to Vega, her team searched for evidence but found "no credible examples" of such incidents. OMG
JeniFromCali ༺✿༻30Ready for this post-truth era to be put in the rear view mirror. Let our grandchildren study about in their history books.
Baja Arizona. We fight on.20Like Nancy Reagan always said, just say no.
Corey O'Neill18“Can We Make the Protesters Look More Violent?” 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley blows the whistle on Bari Weiss’ CBS News. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
marcosantana13Weiss isn’t a journalist. She’s a MAGA influencer. And an incompetent one at that given the decline in @cbsnews.com viewers Cc @oliverdarcy.bsky.social @chriscillizza.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social
James Baum11If this is correct, and we have no evidence that it’s not, then how can anyone ever have confidence in 60 minutes again? Bari Weiss is a disgrace and disaster!
Tea Pain381It will take decades to clean up the rot from the Trump administration.
The Media and Democracy Project24Bari Weiss is an emissary of the Ellisons. This their agenda. We must #BlockTheMerger to #StopTheCorruptTakeover
Benjamin Freed6congrats to everyone who treated Bari as a genius-level classical liberal contrarian instead of the gutter propagandist she is
Yayger5@cbsnews.com is a smoking craterous ruin
If you didn't vote Dem, you voted for this.3The most surprising thing about this is how few journalists are willing to go on record with such observations. Why did they become journalists in the first place?
Jada Jones2They will drive CBS out of business if needed.Look at twitter,15%of customers are bots.People have left & it has become a sewer I kept saying he didn't buy it alone & sure enough, he didn't. There aren't any plans but destruction for CBS, then state tv. Hoping the good people see they need to RUN
Deborah Lawrence Hale2The 21st century @cbsnews.com makes me sad. Many may grow tired of hearing me say proudly that my grandfather, #PoppaCraigLawrence ("Poppa" only to my sibs & cousins) was an early VP recruited by CBS. #SenileTraitorTrump & #CBSTrumpFans are destroying the #ChampagneNetwork.
Brad1356.bsky.social2THIS is EXACTLY what Hitler did.
Corey O'Neill2“Can We Make the Protesters Look More Violent?” 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley blows the whistle on Bari Weiss’ CBS News. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
no reporter or producer or correspondent reallllly wants to be the source, the subject of an important but bad and sad story of urgent national importance but she did it, anyway. thank you cecilia vega - www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Lora Kolodny78“If you watch my pieces, you’d see those examples did not make it in,” said Vega.... <--- well-done woman.
Maudi6340I’ve never been less shocked in my 62 years. 👇😒 For anyone that hits a paywall, here is the archive 🔗 archive.ph/2026.07.24-1...
This Is Some Fucking Bullshit28Paywall. Nobody can subscribe to every fucking newspaper on earth individually. I'm sick of this shit.
Edward Brennan14Consider that Vega would have never said anything had she not been fired. Only loss of position brought her story out. I am not saying that it is not the truth, I believe it is. But, that we can't trust the corporate press to be honest, except, at best, in retrospect when the rehab their reputations
Marc Ash🇺🇦🇺🇸11Now consider how many great journalists have been forced out of their jobs over the years for inaccurate reporting.
TracingVRL8Oh my www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen... "Vega cited other examples of CBS News’ attempts to shape her stories. She said she was told to open a piece about the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran with, 'Who is winning the war? Iran is totally outgunned by the United States and Israel.'"
BeijingPalmer552Bari Weiss is a liar who wants to force others to be liars.
John Wiswell19This is what they've done.
calizaybak.bsky.social18Anyone who works for CBS is pressured to be fine with lying and should be treated accordingly.
Dave Kamper13Yeah, we know this never happened. If only.
Kevin Reuning11>Vega said she was asked to include a comment by Mayor Frey in which he purportedly asked city Police Chief O’Hara to order his officers to confront and fight ICE agents. But Vega said she and her production team scoured “every frame” of Frey’s news conference and found no evidence of that statement
Serial Experiments Abigail10The stuff she's alleging should be criminal and carry extremely stiff penalties The war on reality must end and the aggressors must spend the rest of their lives lost in darkness
AR Hanlon5Keep in mind Bari Weiss became national news as a student for trying to get her professors fired for constitutionally protected speech, and that’s the only reason she works in media. Her most relevant journalistic experience is being the story, where the story is about being against free speech.
Marie Cerda4"...include a comment by Mpls Mayor Jacob Frey in which he purportedly asked Mpls Police Chief Brian O’Hara to order his officers to confront & fight ICE agents...include video footage of protesters attacking people they believed were undercover ICE agents...“no credible examples” of such incidents"
Brent2Block CBS and paramount on your TVs so you don’t accidentally give them a dime
Just a french cat2Quand un milliardaire pro-Trump prends le contrôle d'un média et en donne la direction à des incompétents qui vivent dans leur bulle de désinformation 🤷🏻♂️ (on parie qu'ils ont eu leur peu de cerveau rongé sur twitter)?
Fired ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Cecilia Vega says she was told to report events ‘that never happened’ Source: San Francisco Chronicle share.newsbreak.com/j3yb99ak?s=i16
SomeFoo7Because she's a journalist not a propagandist. Everyone else should never be hired again in any capacity.
Cookie2554Just like our president, you can no longer trust anything 60 Minutes says .
my12qc2She didn't name names. If she's not brave enough to do that, she gets zero pity.
Pronghorn2Remember what happened to Brian Williams when he reported events that didn't happen?
Chris aka Mother Goose2The comment section is awash with MAGAts.
atiraslight.bsky.social2Haitian immigrants eating the neighborhood cats and dogs is Bari Weiss' idea of newsworthy stories.
Fionna O’Leary12“In one example, Vega said she was asked to include a comment by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in which he purportedly asked city Police Chief Brian O’Hara to order his officers to confront and fight ICE agents. But Vega said she & her production team scoured “every frame” of Frey’s news conference“
John Lloyd9Just another reminder that it’s not your imagination, MAGA is gaslighting everyone.
frannybananny.bsky.social3How could any reasonable person ever trust this program again? Time to boycott 60 Minutes.
jla62.bsky.social2Owners of news stations want their anchors to lie to appease trump.
cel2Alternative facts, girl! We’ve known about this shit since 12:01 pm on January 20, 2017.
This is exactly what I run into with conspiracy theorists — a stray, unverified claim gets treated as if it debunks the real story, and it almost always falls apart under scrutiny. Wild to hear that pattern showing up at 60 Minutes as Cecilia Vega describes it.
Donie O’Sullivan157It’s normally the result of someone recalling something they saw in passing on their social media feed — a rumor that confirms what they already want to believe about a story, so they accept it without further scrutiny.
Parker Molloy29Donie, are you going to leave CNN if Weiss takes over? You wouldn't actually stay there and be part of this type of propaganda machine, right? (And that's assuming that Weiss doesn't purge people like she did at CBS News.)
Mike Rifer11It’s also the nexus of a kind of person who a) has no bullshit detector, and b) is conditioned to believe the any absurd caricature about ‘Big City Libs’. At no point do they stop and ask themselves, “Does this really *seem* like the kind of thing that the Mayor of a large Midwest city would say?”
Art Martin8this is what happens when you hire a conspiracy theorist to run your news division.
Dave N.5Probably not a good thing that the head of CBS News has her brain cooked by Twitter nazis.
jtunes6.bsky.social2Bari is living in the alternate reality of RW disinformation.
Philip Bump756The core of the right-wing information universe is that one correction from a mainstream outlet proves it can’t be trusted and that one accurate claim in a flurry of false ones proves that they must be.
Eric Blair53More than this, even. The whole rightwing media machine is built on the strategy of finding rare anecdotes that make Democrats look bad and hyping them like crazy. That’s what Fox does, it’s what Weiss’ FP does, and what WSJ, NY Post, OANN, Newsmax, and the rest do. Weiss tried it here.
Sister of Wendy #AbolishICE 🐸28When fighting fascism, there's one side: the truth. And what CBS and a lot of other news' stations are STILL doing is giving weight to both sides. It's done intentionally, it pushes lies & it further erodes democracy. The 4th Pillar is the crumbled remains of what it once stood for. #SheShed
Jonathon Booth18There is actually very little difference between the way that your average facebook-addled conspiracy boomer understands reality and the way Bari Weiss, David Sacks, Mark Andreessen, etc understand reality
Dr. Steven Buckley16Totally cool and great that the leadership of a newsroom is trying to push it's journalists to broadcast wild conspiracies/fake news that they likely saw being claimed on X. Bari Weiss is poisonous to the public sphere.
John Timmer8I think most people are interpreting this as "look how political CBS News management is", when for me it's "look how incompetent they are." These are people who are supposed to be running a major news source, and they get their info from conspiracy addled sources.
Nicole Carr5This also played out in local and national coverage of the Big Lie. Election deniers’ false claims were often treated as sides that needed to be extracted and platformed. When no evidence of such claim could be seen, their lies were still platformed (sans pushback).
Nikki Chris4This was already bad several years ago, now with AI this is going to spiral. Even if you do get these people to 'look up' the facts, they'll have a sychophantic AI telling them whatever they want to hear. We're compounding the problem. The movie Idiocracy becomes more prescient every day.
In order to curry favor with Trump, executives at CBS News were directing reporters to essentially make things up to help him. It’s terrifying to watch national news organizations become part of the Trump state TV syndicate. www.huffpost.com/entry/fired-...
Glenn of the Hill People2I grew up on Walter Cronkite and 60 Minutes. Now it’s Trump’s propaganda channel. It is gone in my life. ABC, NBC still exist at least.
Anton Shadow1These Unlawful Firings Also Void No-Compete-Clauses, As It Is A Contractual Breached To Be Fired Without A Legal Reason.
A Virginian1Talk about fake news! @cbsnews.com shame on you.
