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.”
My favorite thing about Bari Weiss is that she’s mortal
I think the more the mainstream news is sabotaged, the easier it will be later to reform news. And the more support independent reporters will have.
News by cbs, and similar, are uncritically accepted. This has slowed down the recovery of real news sources after the crash of newspaper advertising.
Yes, millions of citizens will naively accept the increasing lunacy of the mainstream press. Yet millions of others will be bothered by the changes. It will be by those reactions that better news sources can be funded
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)
Corporate news was sabotaged from the start, it‘s just been getting increasingly obvious since the rise of cable and the fall of the fairness doctrine and anti-trust enforcement.
Even before the start of the consolidation of the media in the 1970s, most of the hundreds of small newspapers, radio and tv stations in the states were an obstacle.
I think they could not have been merged and shut down without a corresponding loss of interest in local news and politics by most of the public
Another Zionist shoving propaganda down our throats
