{"id":410665,"date":"2026-01-16T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410665\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:15:16","slug":"cbs-news-report-on-ice-officers-injuries-drew-huge-internal-concern-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410665\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS News report on ICE officer\u2019s injuries drew \u2018huge internal concern\u2019 | CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some CBS News employees expressed concern after the network cited two anonymous \u201cUS officials\u201d on Wednesday to report that the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good<\/a> in Minneapolis \u201csuffered internal bleeding to the torso\u201d after the incident.<\/p>\n

CBS initially published the account<\/a> about officer Jonathan Ross on X, formerly Twitter. About 30 minutes later, the network followed up with another post<\/a>, containing a link to an article<\/a> by two correspondents that similarly cited \u201ctwo US officials briefed on his medical condition\u201d.<\/p>\n

The report, which was not extensively covered by other news organizations, drew an immediate response on social media from critics who questioned the network\u2019s sourcing \u2013 and whether it aligned with the Trump administration\u2019s preferred focus.<\/p>\n

But there was also internal skepticism at the network about the report, according to emails viewed by the Guardian. It was met with \u201chuge internal concern\u201d by some, one CBS<\/a> News staffer said. Others viewed the conversations as standard editorial discussions.<\/p>\n

Before the original report was published, a medical producer at the network suggested in an email to colleagues that \u201cit would be helpful to ask what type of treatment he received\u201d, and whether the officer received surgery or any other type of procedure.<\/p>\n

In another email, an executive expressed skepticism about the broad nature of the medical diagnosis, and what it actually entailed. \u201cI\u2019m no doctor, but internal bleeding is a very broad term and can range in severity,\u201d wrote CBS News senior vice-president David Reiter.<\/p>\n

\u201cA bruise is internal bleeding. But it can also be something serious,\u201d Reiter continued. \u201cWe do know that the ICE agent walked away from the incident \u2013 we have that on camera.\u201d (The network\u2019s story noted that \u201cvideos from the scene showed Ross walking away after the incident\u201d.)<\/p>\n

The network\u2019s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was big internal dissension about the \u2018internal bleeding\u2019 report here last night,\u201d the CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said . \u201cIt was viewed as a thinly-veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who\u2019d carry it online.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFelt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin\u2019s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources,\u201d said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment.<\/p>\n

In a statement, a CBS News spokesperson said the network \u201cwent through its rigorous editorial process and decided it was reportable based on the reporting, the reporters, and the sourcing\u201d.<\/p>\n

CBS, which labeled its story as an \u201cexclusive\u201d, was not totally alone on the story. The ABC News live blog published a two-paragraph update<\/a> repeating the claim and citing \u201cmultiple US officials familiar with [Ross\u2019s] medical condition\u201d \u2013 but noting that the officials \u201cdidn\u2019t provide more details about the medical condition\u201d.<\/p>\n

Other news organizations, including NBC News<\/a> and the New York Times<\/a>, also made brief mentions of the claim. Fox News, which published a full story<\/a>, cited a confirmation from the Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin \u2013 though it acknowledged that \u201cthe extent of the bleeding \u2026 was not immediately clear\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Guardian has not independently confirmed the report.<\/p>\n

Since Weiss took over as editor-in-chief in early October, the network has faced accusations of favoritism toward the Trump administration. CBS has been controlled since last year by Paramount Skydance, the media conglomerate heavily bankrolled by the tech billionaire and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, a friend of the president.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil scored an exclusive interview with Trump<\/a>, who claimed he wouldn\u2019t have recently been made anchor of the CBS Evening News if Kamala Harris had won the 2024 election. When Dokoupil pushed back, Trump conceded that he might have, \u201cbut at a lesser salary\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some CBS News employees expressed concern after the network cited two anonymous \u201cUS officials\u201d on Wednesday to report…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-410665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}