Posted on 10/24/2025 8:52:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
The new editor-in-chief of CBS News wants Fox News anchor Bret Baier to helm the channel's flagship evening news program, network sources have revealed.
Bari Weiss floated The Special Report star's name along with several others during high-level talks meant to find a fresh face for the broadcaster after Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson stepped in for Norah O'Donnell in January, insiders told Status.
Ratings for CBS Evening News have dropped from 4.8 million to 4.1million since.
Weiss, 41, has begun 'quietly canvassing' the industry as a result, sources said.
The news comes after Weiss was minted as CBS News' chief on October 6 after 'informally consulting' the network for weeks, a source told The Daily Mail last month.
Skydance's merger with Paramount in July made way for her hiring. She resigned from The New York Times in 2021 to found the Free Press, which was purchased by Skydance Paramount CEO David Ellison this month for roughly $150 million.
After being named CEO, Ellison pledged to shed any prior political connotations that may be tied to the company after a string of controversies and claims of 'deceptive' editing practices from both Donald Trump and Homeland Security boss Kristi Noem.
His recent hire's gravitation toward Baier hints at where the network is headed under his ownership, with Weiss a fierce critic of legacy news.
Baier, meanwhile, is one of Fox News' main stars, having been with the network since 1998.
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I hear Chris Wallace is available.
It would probably improve Faux News.
No help to CBS however.
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I could have told them at no charge that NorDUH the feminist O'Donnell and Dubois/Dickerson would be a ratings failure.
I don’t care much about Bret Baier but would love to see this because it would cause a total meltdown among the See-BS news staff.
Would Baier go full lefty like former FOX personality now at CNN alisyn camerota did?
Why do these supposedly profit minded corporations pay outrageous salaries to these essentially ‘news readers’ as the BBC calls them?
They could hire interns to do the same and save literally millions of dollars.
I don’t watch the ‘news’ to see ‘personalities’, I watch the news for, guess what, NEWS!..................
“””I don’t care much about Bret Baier but would love to see this because it would cause a total meltdown among the See-BS news staff.””””
I think Brett would fit right in with them but you are correct about it causing a meltdown.
A white male? How dare she!
Oooh la la. I now watch Special Report regularly over the last year and “We report, you decide.” is spot on for Baier. FOX haters will disagree but journalists are supposed to do exactly that.
He bends right of center, if anything. Not like the rest of Prime Time which happily exposes the Donks nightly. That’s not his job if he’s to be taken seriously. He grilled the hell out of Pritzker last night and didn’t let him skate like we always see.
Enter Bari Weiss into the CBS landscape. Baier and CBS could be a great match.
....restoring creditability and prestige to its one-time dominance. Or would fair and balanced reporting be a draw ?
If I was FOX, I’m not sure what I’d do. He beats the alphabets. Keep him, or let him advance his career ?....if moving to an alphabet is “advancing his career”. Not so sure in this age of streaming.
All things considered, he’ll probably not bite. FOX has no perfect replacement should he bail. One part-time anchor, Rich Edson, iirc. could. but beyond that....? Bill Melugin , perhaps.
Fascinating.
“jewel” = carbuncle
Bring back loser cronkite.
He would be instantly demonized by the left, therefore the boomers that only get their media from TV already would despise him. Wouldn’t work.
He’s dead, Jim...............
He is likely pretty toasty at this point.
Extra crispy.
Has Laz commented on the new boss yet?
Haven’t heard from him in a while.
Must be on vacation..............
Bret Baier is maybe the most moderately Conservatives in the whole Fox line up. He tries too too hard not to offend anyone.
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