Donald Trump was an ardent practitioner of "catch and kill" through his friend at the National Enquirer. Damaging stories would be bought by the Enquirer, the sources would sign NDAs and then the Enquirer would toss them in a vault.
Given the advances in autocracy that Trump and the GOP have made recently, we should not be surprised that unqualified hack, Bari Weiss, is now playing this game at CBS News, including 60 Minutes.
There are two things to note here.
The first is that the story is obviously going to leak out, and it will be more popular, precisely because it was censored. However, unless it comes out on 60 Minutes proper, it's not going to reach your Great Aunt who gets her news from the TeeVee.
The second is that we REALLY have a corporate news problem in this country. I suppose it's always been a problem, but the naked attempt to cow corporate leaders via government action means that news rooms will become more and more risk-averse.
Not great.
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