‘Squad’ member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacks CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attacked CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss on Tuesday in a tweet against the media and said the network executive “killed” the “60 Minutes” segment on El Salvador’s maximum-security prison that aired in January.
Ocasio-Cortez said during an appearance on former CNN host Don Lemon’s show that MS NOW, CNN and CBS were home to some of the “best journalists” in the US, before taking aim at Weiss in an argument against what he called the “oligarchical ownership structure” of the media.
“We saw what happened on that episode of ’60 Minutes”. [Center for Confinement of Terrorism] CECOT. Bari Weiss killed it. And he is not there because he is an honest journalist; He’s there because he’s kissing a millionaire’s butt, and he’s making them look good, and he’s working on the research agenda they want to put out,” Ocasio-Cortez told Lemon.
CECOT’s “60 Minutes” segment aired on Jan. 18, after an initial delay by Weiss at the end of December.
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks in New York on Jan. 1, 2026. Bari Weiss speaks on stage during the Book Club With Peggy Noonan event on Nov. 19, 2024, New York City. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images; Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press)
Fox News Digital reported that Weiss made the decision to delay the segment after finding that, while the discussions were “strong,” the story ultimately did not “move the ball forward” and “it wasn’t ready yet.”
CBS News’ office and Ocasio-Cortez’s office did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
Ocasio-Cortez also focused on the Washington Post, which is owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos.
“So, it’s not just that these companies are very big, but they answer to one directly, usually one businessman with a political agenda,” he said. “So you have Jeff Bezos, who is taking over the Washington Post – not because he likes journalism, but because he needs to start regulating and making sure that dissenting opinions are not broadcast in the papers of record.”
“And it’s not a coincidence, that you’ve got Jeff Bezos taking over the Washington Post and quickly taking over their opinion section, starting to take over their 2024 election.”
The Washington Post did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Bezos has owned the Post since 2013 and the paper announced in 2024 that it would not endorse a political candidate in the 2024 election or any election going forward.
Ocasio-Cortez said “the same thing” happened with the Los Angeles Times. That store’s editorial board also refused to endorse a candidate for president in 2024.
Bezos also announced changes to the Post’s opinion section in early 2025, saying, “We will write every day to support and defend two pillars: personal liberty and free markets. We will certainly cover other topics, but opinions against those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., speaks to reporters outside the US Capitol on September 11, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Ocasio-Cortez continued to criticize CBS, citing the network canceling “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
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“So you have Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, you have Elon Musk, you have people who are starting to control and take over the content that is happening. It is not incomprehensible that this merger happened at CBS and Stephen Colbert, who is a great critic of the president, was removed; Disney said that the goal is achieved.
