CBS News staffers are coming to terms with the news that controversial commentator Bari Weiss is their new editor-in-chief, as the storied network’s owner Paramount Skydance acquires her Substack-based publication the Free Press in a reported $150m deal.
In conversations with the Guardian, six current network employees expressed a mixture of apprehension, skepticism and frustration over the appointment. “A throwing up emoji is not enough of a reflection of the feelings in here,” one particularly incensed CBS News employee said in a text message.
“It’s utterly depressing. Somebody who has zero experience in television news or even hard news for that matter… but with a clearly defined political agenda,” said another staffer. “It’s hard to see this as anything more than an attempt to bend the knee completely.”
If you want more evidence how bad it is, TheGuardian refuses to say that Bari Weiss is a paid Israeli shill and that’s the whole reason she is getting to take over the newspaper.
TheGuardian makes it seem like she randomly got the job for no good reason at all and nobody can comprehend why.
The uk newspapers are a burning trash heap that are much better than in the USA. Even the daily mirror has better standards of reporting than many here (I feel dirty now)