Independent journalism is under attack.

No, I'm not just talking about LegalAaf and the Midas Dutch Network, 60 minutes.

According to a correspondent, a senior correspondent there, Sharon Alfonci, and a newly

released internal memo protesting the spiking of her story this past Sunday to cover the

torture prison of Seacot in El Salvador,

the Trump administration's virtual control over it, having interviewed hundreds of prisoners

at great courage and risk to do it. That story, according to the reporter, was spiked by Barry Weiss. The new editor-in-chief of CBS

brought in after Donald Trump settled with CBS and with its parent company Paramount

to the tune of up to $30 million, required them to have an ombudsperson on board, and hire

a new head of 16 Minutes in CBS News in the form of Barry Weiss,

all because his buddy, Donald Trump's buddy, Larry Ellison's Nepo baby son, David Ellison, was buying

the channel. Suddenly, all the approvals that were being threatened suddenly came flying out.

And then when the first important story for 60 minutes came out

just a couple of months after the settlement, it gets killed. It gets spiked by 60 minutes. And thank God

for Sharon Alfonzi coming forward. That memo is now public. I'm going to read it to you

here on the

Midas Touch Network. And you can see the context that we're talking about. We're on YouTube. We're on

podcasts. We're not regulated by Donald Trump. We don't have outside investors. You see what happens

when an amazing reporter courageously, like Sharon Alfonci, tries to do a story to tell the

American people about other human beings being tortured and the Trump administration being

complicit in it, and they get a veto because, quote, unquote, they wouldn't be interviewed

for the story. How many 60 minutes exposés in investigative reporting had an element of it where the correspondent, whether

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