Posted on 10/08/2025 11:16:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
If you’re old enough to have admired CBS in its heyday, watching its decline has been painful.
Decades ago, it was dubbed the Tiffany Network – home of the great journalist Walter Cronkite (“the most trusted man in America”), and innovator of the top-flight magazine program, 60 Minutes.
Even outside its news division, the network was a place where the variety-show host Ed Sullivan could break down racial exclusion by inviting outstanding Black entertainers to his Sunday night program; that was controversial in an era of intense racial turmoil. The CBS news department had some of the best journalists in the nation, and the corporation itself exuded a sense of public mission.
But on Monday, when Bari Weiss was named editor-in-chief of CBS News, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots.
Given her lack of experience in news, “placing Weiss at or near the helm of a television news division makes no more sense than it would have, a generation ago, to have given such a role to William F Buckley of the National Review or Victor Navasky of The Nation,” wrote Richard Tofel, an astute media observer, formerly of the Wall Street Journal and ProPublica, mentioning conservative and liberal opinionators of their era.
Weiss – a staunch Zionist and a fierce opponent of supposed wokeness and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives – famously left the New York Times opinion section, claiming she had been bullied by her colleagues for her beliefs. She started a Substack newsletter and eventually founded the wildly successful website Free Press.
Her rise has been meteoric. She “has ascended the mountain of journalism on a slingshot”, Jessica Testa of the New York Times put it this week.
To her many critics, her appointment was just one more step on...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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Staring with Dan Rather's "Fake but accurate" reporting on the eve of an election.
Starting, not staring.
“PUBLIC” airwaves, transmitting propaganda, controlled by..... hmmm i don’t know. Someone out there gets to decide who gets to write the ‘news’ and choose what stories to report and not report, but it’s not the voters and it’s not the public. It’s not even elected officials that get to decide. Someone does though. What a crooked system.
If the Guardian doesn’t like her, CBS must be doing something right.
She’s a left-leaning bi/lesbian, but she’s not corrupt or extreme enough for the Guardian. Their criticism says more about themselves than her.
Everything about the media is weird and worrisome.
I doubt she’s worse than anyone else at CBS.
If she is, she’ll fit in fine.
IT IS WEDNESDAY:
RENO CBS HAVE BEEN OFF THE AIR SINCE SUNDAY PM.
“If the Guardian doesn’t like her, CBS must be doing something right.”
Just what I was thinking. This probably a feather in her cap.
Curse you, Babylon Bee! You got me!
Much improvement over predecessor
I don’t really care, Margaret, and Cronkite was a commie.
The Guardian would have preferred a communist.
[Weiss – a staunch Zionist]
The Guardian consistently shows their priorities...
Not that we are surprised
If it’s “weird and worrisome” for the Guardian, she must be pretty good!
Bari is a “her”? As in a birthing person? What difference does it make that she doesn’t have news experience?
I had no idea the Guardian was so homophobic and misogynist.
Even if she is a moderate it will be like a bombshell in the world of See BS.
It is an improvement although she seems more disinterested in straight news (whatever that means anymore) than simply inexperienced.
Walter Cronkite was a communist.
Bari Weiss’s letter to CBS as to what she intends to do...
“What I can tell you on day one is that I stand for the same core journalistic values that have defined this profession since the beginning, and I will continue to champion them alongside you:
- Journalism that reports on the world as it actually is.
- Journalism that is fair, fearless, and factual.
- Journalism that respects our audience enough to tell the truth plainly—wherever it leads.
- Journalism that makes sense of a noisy, confusing world.
- Journalism that explains things clearly, without pretension or jargon.
- Journalism that holds both American political parties to equal scrutiny.
- Journalism that embraces a wide spectrum of views and voices so that the audience can contend with the best arguments on all sides of a debate.
- Journalism that rushes toward the most interesting and important stories, regardless of their unpopularity.
- Journalism that uses all of the tools of the digital era.
- Journalism that understands that the best way to serve America is to endeavor to present the public with the facts, first and foremost.
I look forward to meeting many of you in the days ahead and to listening and learning from you. I am profoundly honored to join you—and I can’t wait to get started.
With gratitude and excitement,
Bari”
Hopefully she’ll deliver.
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