Posted on 11/21/2025 10:27:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief at CBS News, is already making waves.
The founder and editor of The Free Press and former New York Times columnist has adopted a rallying cry in meetings with colleagues, according to the Wall Street Journal.: "I wanna blow this up."
Weiss's plan "is working to overhaul the organization’s evening news program, counter what she sees as a left-leaning bias in legacy media and make the newsroom operate more efficiently," reports the Journal.
Paramount Global and its new boss, Dave Ellison, recently acquired CBS in a deal that was harshly criticized by other legacy media outlets.
Katy Couric, the former anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” warned that “the whole setup with the Ellisons bringing her in and buying the Free Press is compromising independent journalism.”
Couric neglected to explain what or who was being "compromised," but that's par for the course. The unspoken criticism is that Weiss just isn't left-wing enough. She's an anti-woke crusader who wants to get legacy media to take their thumbs off the scale and report the news honestly. She's no MAGA cheerleader, even though some media critics fear that CBS will now kowtow to Trump.
Weiss is trying to fix a broken system. To my mind, it's like trying to "fix" the carriage-making industry or the blacksmith guild. The business model of the news industry is failing, and I can't see anyone who can engineer a turnaround.
However, Weiss is going to try.
At the time of her appointment, Ellison said he tapped Weiss to bring to CBS “news that reflects reality” and journalism that “doesn’t seek to demonize, but seeks to understand.”
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CBS News correspondent and part-time anchor John Dickerson saw the writing on the wall, and he also left the network. Weiss may give the ax to co-anchor Maurice DuBois, according to the Journal, and even CBS Morning Show host Gayle King may be on thin ice.
This is just the beginning, according to the Journal.
Her approach to talent management and operations has been a marked change. In searching for potential new anchors for the high-priority “CBS Evening News,” Weiss has contacted outside talent directly to discuss joining the network rather than using the typical practice of negotiating with their agents, people familiar with the matter said.
Some people inside CBS say Weiss has played a more active role in booking guests using her professional network than prior executives who largely left that work to bookers and producers. To fans and supporters, her methods represent a needed shake-up for an institution that has become stuck in its ways and is struggling to compete in the ratings.
Among her earliest acts: A survey-like email asking staffers to outline their jobs, people who saw it said. In a separate email, she asked staff to provide feedback on “how we can make CBS News the most trusted news organization in America and the world.”
I would say that CBS News blew itself up many years ago. Bari Weiss is just clearing away the debris. But she at least acknowledges the problem.
If you want your news biased, you don’t want news.
Katy Couric, the former anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” warned that “the whole setup with the Ellisons bringing her in and buying the Free Press is compromising independent journalism.”
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"From the Publisher IN HIS NEARLY thirty years at CBS News, Emmy Award- winner Bernard Goldberg earned a reputation as one of the preeminent reporters in the television news business. When he looked at his own industry, however, he saw that the media far too often ignored their primary mission: objective, disinterested reporting. Again and again he saw that they slanted the news to the left. For years Goldberg appealed to reporters, producers, and network executives for more balanced reporting, but no one listened. The liberal bias continued. Now, in Bias, he blows the whistle on the news business, showing exactly how the media slant their coverage while insisting that they're just reporting the facts. About the Author Bernard Goldberg is the winner of seven Emmy Awards, and was once rated by TV Guide as one of the ten most interesting people on television. Having served for nearly thirty years as a reporter and producer for CBS News, he now reports for the critically acclaimed HBO program Real Sports, hosted by Bryant Gumbel. He has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Goldberg lives with his family in Miami."
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Not many years ago, Weiss took a bold stand contrary to the left’s narrative. Most people were very surprised. I can’t recall exactly what it was, but she was aligned with Naomi Wolf at the time. Probably had to do with the vax.
I suppose she’s Jewish (Weiss), and Naomi definitely is, and they were able to draw the parallels between the our RAT dictates and Hitler’s.
Goldberg has been out of the limelight for a while now. I had totally forgotten about him until your post.
Fire Tulsa Oklahoma’s most embarrassing son Scott Pelley (yes, even worse than Gary Busey, who isn’t a TOTAL asshole) and she’ll be off to a good start.
A left-leaning bias in legacy media and make the newsroom operate more efficiently.
Propaganda is becoming a hard sell with many eyes and ears opening regroup is the only answer.
“Where’s your drill sergeant?”
“BLOWN UP, SIR!”
“make the newsroom operate more efficiently,””
WOW! That’s your big plan?
Here is an idea, just try telling the TRUTH.
Elon, please buy NBC. Make Comcast an offer it can’t refuse.
Has everyone also seen the new ad on the web for the old MSNBC as the new MSNOW?
They are prepping up claiming they are like protectors of the US Constitution and all American. 🤣🤣🤣
I believe that means they are fixin’ to lie a whole lot more between now and 2028.
Sorry, I don’t buy it. I remember when CNN tried to tell us they were coming back to the middle. Same tempting tidbits, but no action. When the 60 Minutes crew get fired, I’ll listen.
COURIC WOULD NOT KNOW INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM IF IT KISSED HER ON THE MOUTH
SHE IS THE ORIGINAL AIRHEAD
ALL THE OTHER AIRHEADS ARE CLONES OF COURIC
And she is one of the worst off-putting interviewers in history
And she is one of the worst off-putting interviewers in history
Weiss understands the problems.
The question is whether she is ready to make the hard decisions needed to deal with them.
That would include firing every leftist in the organization above the janitor level.
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