Longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who once got into a major dust-up with CBS leadership for a segment critical of President Donald Trump and his administration, is about to hit the unemployment line after the network decided against renewing her contract. Alfonsi’s deal expired and CBS opted not to extend it, with reports indicating the decision was inspired by her “insubordinate” behavior.
Alfonsi’s exit from the program comes several months after a high-profile internal fight over a report on the conditions inside El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, a prison facility that’s being used to hold deported illegal aliens who, according to Alfonsi and her team, are facing “brutal and torturous conditions.” When Alfonsi was asked by the New York Times about the decision not to extend her contract, she said, “It sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom.”
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