“We have been promoting this story on social media for days,” Alfonsi added. “Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate #censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.…I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight,” she wrote.
Reached Sunday, Alfonsi said, “I refer all questions to #BariWeiss.”