Eye Roll: Alfonsi Bounced from ’60 Minutes,’ Touts God Complex Arrogance to NYT #Political
The New York Times made official Wednesday what Puck’s Dylan Byers first reported back on April 24: CECOT-obsessed Sharyn Alfonsi is out at CBS’s 60 Minutes.
And, in an interview with the virulently anti-Bari Weiss paper (which used to employ her before they ran her out of town), Alfosni donned a holier-than-thou attitude that embodies the stomach-churning arrogance of liberal, elite journalists in fearing the “chilling message” the presence of a hands-on editor-in-chief sends.
Michael Grynbaum huffed: “CBS News declined to renew its contract with the ‘60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, six months after her segment on torture in Salvadoran prisons was pulled off the air abruptly by the news division’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss.”
Fact-check: Mostly false. As we covered at the time, they didn’t touch her emoting hit job. Rather, they had her add requests for comment from the Trump administration at the very end of her piece.
Alfonsi and The Times presumably want us to feel bad for someone leading an open revolt against the people who sign her paychecks:
She said in a phone interview that her agent’s inquiries with CBS News over the past several weeks had been met with silence.
“It sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom,” Ms. Alfonsi said. “I think it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting.”
Grynbaum noted she “remains employed at CBS,” but no 60 Minutes contract, and unsurprisingly, she insisted in pure theatre kid behavior that she is refusing to leave CBS on her own:
“I’m not resigning,” she said. “If they want me gone because I did my job, they’ll have to fire me.”
CBS News declined to comment on Ms. Alfonsi’s remarks or her future at the network.
Most of the piece was relitigating the drama surrounding Weiss’s CBS News tenure, including the hubbub with Alfonsi as Weiss supposedly committed the crime of wondering why her story about a Salvadoran prison the Trump administration used to hold illegal immigrants was horribly one-sided.
He made sure to warn Weiss not to do anything to upset the apple cart of 60 Minutes, a news magazine far too many in this sadly godless industry treat like an infallible deity.
Alfonsi added her own finger-wagging and pompous platitudes that always translate to a rancorous liberal bias perhaps best symbolized by Steve Kroft’s fetish for sucking up to Barack Obama:
In the interview, Ms. Alfonsi said she felt anxious about the program’s future. “For the last 60 years it’s been the same formula: Tell the truth, hold the power accountable, don’t blink,” she said. “And it’s unclear what next season looks like.”
“There’s a feeling that the wall has come down between editorial independence and corporate interests,” she added. “The concern is we’re going to end up with a broadcast that looks like ‘60 Minutes’ but doesn’t have the courage or the character to produce ‘60 Minutes’ journalism that actually matters.”
To the surprise of no one, Alfonsi made clear to The Times that “she did not regret sending the email” because, in her words, “I believed I was doing my job.”
Alfonsi certainly won’t be missed as she was a reliable liberal pundit pretending to be a journalist. While she closed 2025 with the CECOT story, she began the year with a February 2025 piece celebrating European-style censorship and, just before Christmas 2024, she blamed cartel violence in Mexico on the Second Amendment in the U.S.
Prior to this run-in with Weiss, Alfonsi was most well-known to conservatives based on her April 2021 smear against Governor Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) Covid vaccine rollout that was so bad it featured doctored clips of her haranguing DeSantis at a press conference. She even tried two years later to attack DeSantis over his illegal immigration flight to Martha’s Vineyard.
And in 2018, she turned 60 Minutes over to the far-left Parkland students to offer unchallenged invective.
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