Key Highlights
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N. Y., attacked CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss on Tuesday in a rant against the media and said the network executive "killed" a "60 Minutes" segment on El Salvador's maximum-security prison that aired in January.
- Ocasio-Cortez said during an appearance on ex-CNN host Don Lemon's show that MS NOW, CNN and CBS were home to some of the "best journalists" in the U. S., before taking aim at Weiss in an argument against what she says is the "oligarchical ownership structure" of media."We saw what happened with that '60 Minutes' piece on [Center for Confinement of Terrorism] CECOT.
- Bari Weiss killed it.
- And she’s not there because she’s a good journalist; she’s there because she kisses billionaire butt, and she makes them look good, and she executes on the censorship agenda that they want to see put out," Ocasio-Cortez told Lemon.
- The CECOT "60 Minutes" segment aired on Jan.
