Journalism, Pending RSVP

If refusing an interview can pause an investigation, congratulations: we’ve invented accountability by appointment.

CBS pulled a 60 Minutes segment about Trump-era deportations to El Salvador two hours before airtime, then aired it about a month later with only light tweaks, and still without the on-camera Trump administration interview that supposedly justified the delay. Which raises an obvious question: what exactly happened in that month? Did they uncover new fac…