Archivists have saved and uploaded copies of the 60 Minutes episode new CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss ordered be shelved as a torrent and multiple file sharing sites after an international distributor aired the episode.
The moves show how difficult it may be for CBS to stop the episode, which focused on the experience of Venezuelans deported to El Salvadorian mega prison CECOT, from spreading across the internet. Bari Weiss stopped the episode from being released Sunday even after the episode was reviewed and checked multiple times by the news outlet, according to an email CBS correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi sent to her colleagues.
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cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 175 pts · 239d
The Streisand Effect sends its regards.
fizzle@quokk.au · 37 pts · 239d
Yes, but also... this is a kinda unique variation in that it wasn't already public when they tried to kill it.
... and, I'm not sure who "archivists" might refer to but I suspect that whoever they are may have undertaken significant risk.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 238d
The article says it was released online and if you were in Canada you could watch it. Also it doesn't say it here but another news source said the week prior it was advertised through commercials, ads, and online that it would be airing on so and so date and time.
Once I saw who stopped it, I kept thinking back to John Oliver's episode on her a few months ago and thought wow that didnt take long.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 238d
If it was posted
in Canadaanywhere it was posted everywhere. Thus is the nature of the internet.dhork@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 238d
Sounds like an "international distributor" aired the episode, so it was already public, at least in whatever country it aired in. The only risk they took is perhaps getting their "international distribution" contract cancelled.
If it aired publicly, and nobody involved in the distribution is involved in the "archiving", there may be very little that can be done about it, short of sending the USS Trump to carpetbomb their country.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 238d
Valid point, but maybe a little less unique than it seems, at least if you look at the original Barbra Streisand situation. The photo of her house was originally so obscure and hidden that realistically essentially nobody had ever seen it, until she sued the photographer to have it removed. While it was technically "publicly available" before that it was in such an obscure dataset of coastal erosion examples that it had only been downloaded 6 times, which in terms of being "public on the internet", effectively rounds down to zero.
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 238d
And those 6 times it were said to be her lawyer who viewed them.
veroxii@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 238d
I believe the archivists are data hoarders aka pirates.
And so they're outside the USA.
fizzle@quokk.au · 3 pts · 238d
Actually since my comment it's become clear that the show was aired in canada.
When I posted that comment it sounded like the show had been canned but someone on the production team had leaked it.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 238d
I don't watch 60 Minutes but I watched this episode.
Snowcano@startrek.website · 4 pts · 238d
“Tell Bari Weiss. I want her to know it was me.”
Trabic@lemmy.today · 87 pts · 238d
If you'd like a 🧲:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:r26oym3csssgcjov7tfnlxls6m6c6ckn&dn=60minutes-cecotsegment&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce
garretble@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 239d
Seems like a perfect video for Peertube.
Chozo@fedia.io · 46 pts · 238d
That'll ensure nobody sees it.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 238d
It will be more than how many people will see it by being just a torrent.
If it's on peertube, you can just send a link to people and it'll stream right on the browser (granted it has enough peers which I'm pretty sure it will).
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 238d
It's not just a torrent at the moment. https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com · 1 pts · 238d
Nah, nah, someone does.
...surely. Someone does, anybody?
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 238d
They always need more content. This would be a great addition.
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 43 pts · 238d
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
yucandu@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 238d
damn i gotta stop reading headlines right to left
who@feddit.org · 28 pts · 238d
https://web.archive.org/web/20251223001713/https://www.404media.co/archivists-posted-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment-bari-weiss-killed/
demizerone@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 238d
If she gets more people to watch 60 minutes, has she not done her job? 😂
njm1314@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 238d
They're not watching 60 minutes. They're watching a story elsewhere that 60 Minutes didn't want to air. So basically 60 Minutes did all the work and gets none of the rewards here. They don't get the ratings they don't get the eyes and they don't get the advertising dollars.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 238d
Advertising and ratings are toxic metrics to bind journalism to.
The proper way to proceed is to build systems and infrastructure that replace these vacuous incentives.
notgold@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 238d
But that's what pays for the content in our current system. Publicly funded journalism is my preference but the problem is some governments bend those to their will and we don't get true reporting. I agree with you that advertisers metrics are bullshit and we should do better but I just don't see where we can go.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 238d
Get fucked Bari!
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 238d
This is the best advertizing they can get to spread it wide and far.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 239d
Bwahaha. Love it. More of this!
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 238d
Where can I find it? They put so much effort into hiding it. Gotta watch it
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 238d
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment
tefbo@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 238d
https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
who@feddit.org · 6 pts · 238d
Posted to YouTube a few hours ago, by the office of New Jersey senator Cory Booker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiehEMlNiCI
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 238d
Make it famous!