Posted on 12/25/2025 11:40:29 AM PST by Navy Patriot
U.S. — CBS News has descended into turmoil after new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss asked the journalists employed there to do journalism.
Internal memos show widespread outrage in response to Weiss's request, with many journalists threatening to resign rather than be forced to do journalism.
"I'd rather die than do journalism," said journalist Matthew Donalds. "If doing journalism is where this station is headed, count me out. I refuse to be a part of asking questions about current events and then reporting what happened. Weiss has crossed the line."
Weiss has reportedly made several harsh demands of CBS News employees, such as asking that they tell the truth. "It's true. I have asked all journalists to please report the news," said Weiss in a statement. "I understand this is a big change, and will take time to implement. There's a lot of resistance to reporting what did happen, instead of what didn't happen. We're going to get there, one step at a time."
At publishing time, Weiss had graciously offered to help any staff who wished to quit to get a new job at CNN.
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Misspelled See BS too.
All of the See-BS “journalists” could just go back to Pravda.
I’d rather die than do journalism
I have to show up AND work too?.
There used to having all their pre-written news stories faxed over from Langley, Va.
“Whats a ‘News’ beat Boss?”
Bari Weiss is a leftist hack. Too many MAGA people are imagining she is our champion. She isn’t, not by a longshot.
She’s a solid radfem and democrat.
Don’t expect too much out of her.
Scott Pelley is having a permanent, chronic hissy fit.
Where they belong.
I don’t disagree. But she somehow manages to believe in old school journalism and truth a lot more than the fake media hacks that inhabited CBS before her arrival. So that make her a right wing extremist to them.
That's okay as long as she believes in actual journalism.
Krysten Sinema is (was) an actual Democrat. But she wasn't a Communist.
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