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BREAKING🚨 Jennifer Welch just called for a full national boycott of CBS News — and when you see what Trump‑aligned billionaires are doing to “60 Minutes,” it’s hard to argue she’s wrong.

Last year, Paramount’s new owner David Ellison installed Bari Weiss — a culture‑war pundit with no background running a TV newsroom — as editor‑in‑chief of CBS News after buying her site The Free Press for around $150 million. Since then, Weiss has moved aggressively to remake the network’s journalism.

She put a tech writer, Nick Bilton, in charge of “60 Minutes,” replacing a veteran executive producer who had spent three decades at the network. Within weeks, management abruptly pulled a deeply reported “60 Minutes” segment on torture and abuse inside El Salvador’s CECOT mega‑prison, where men deported under Trump‑era policies say they were beaten, starved, and disappeared.

The story had already been promoted on air. It ran as scheduled on Canadian TV. But Weiss intervened at the last minute and yanked it from the U.S. broadcast, insisting it needed on‑camera participation from Trump officials who had already refused to comment.

Inside CBS, the backlash has been ferocious. Sharyn Alfonsi, the correspondent on the El Salvador piece, is now out at “60 Minutes” after months of tension with Weiss and Bilton. Longtime staffers say executives are killing or reshaping stories that might anger Trump or his allies, while green‑lighting more “both sides” culture‑war segments that flatter the right.

Then came this week’s bombshell: in a heated all‑hands meeting, veteran correspondent Scott Pelley confronted Bilton, saying Bari Weiss was “murdering ‘60 Minutes’” and that Bilton was installed to help turn the most respected newsmagazine in TV history into something safer for Trump. Bilton reportedly told Pelley to “enjoy the bagels” and walked out. Within 24 hours, Pelley — who has covered wars, disasters, and presidencies for CBS since the 1980s — was fired.

That’s the backdrop for Jennifer Welch’s viral call to boycott. On her podcast and social feeds, she lays it out in plain English: CBS pushed out Stephen Colbert when Trump raged about being mocked on late‑night; spiked a torture‑prisons investigation that embarrassed the Trump administration; is now purging “60 Minutes” reporters who still want to do real accountability journalism; and has handed the keys to Bari Weiss, whose brand is scolding “woke” media and platforming right‑wing narratives as “heterodox” thought.

Welch’s argument is simple: if you reward that with ratings, you’re helping kill what’s left of independent broadcast news.

“These people don’t care about the truth. They don’t care about journalism. They don’t care about the Constitution. They don’t care about a free press,” she says. And in context, that’s not hyperbole.

When a billionaire with close ties to Trump buys a network, installs a partisan culture warrior to run the newsroom, buries investigations into Trump‑backed regimes, and sacks the correspondents who push back, that’s not “rebranding.” It’s capture.

A boycott isn’t a magic wand. But it’s one of the only tools ordinary people have when legacy institutions decide that keeping strongmen comfortable is more important than keeping the public informed. Welch is telling viewers: don’t keep feeding the beast that’s devouring the journalism you grew up trusting.

Turn CBS off. Support outlets and reporters who are still willing to make power squirm — including the Scott Pelleys of the world who are losing their jobs for saying out loud what the rest of the newsroom whispers off camera.

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