Monday, October 06, 2025

Bari Weiss Is the New Editor-in-chief of CBS News

Paramount said Monday that it has bought the news and commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as the editor-in-chief of CBS News, saying it believes the country longs for news that is balanced and fact-based.

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The NYT's Michael Grynbaum reported that this is the note that Bari Weiss sent to CBS News staffers this morning (1/2)

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-- Ian Gordon (@idgordon.bsky.social) Oct 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM

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Vulture Capitalism coming home to roost.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-03 09:27 AM


Sources:

More US Money for Israel

Marco Rubio Likudnik

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-03 09:30 AM

#1: Hi Snoofy: Indeed this is, both venture and vulture capitalism. I'm glad my wife and I stopped watching TV years ago.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-03 09:32 AM

Another source: english.almayadeen.net

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-03 09:33 AM

"CBS Set To Become Pro-Israel Propaganda Arm"

Oh, so just like the rest of America.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-03 10:19 AM

This would be a massive change since they and their peers have been pro Hamas propaganda outlets.

#6 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-10-03 10:31 AM

This would be a massive change since they and their peers have been pro Hamas propaganda outlets.

#6 | Posted by BellRinger

Ha ha ha

You really are this stupid, aren't you?

#7 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-10-03 11:52 AM

He proves it every time he posts.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-03 12:21 PM

Is there any Hamas left? According to the Palestinian Health Authority, the IDF murdered at least 63 Palestinians and wounded another 227 in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours. The Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 2023 has risen to 66,288 human beings, the majority women and children, with an additional 169,165 people injured or maimed (al-Jazeera, 3 Oct 2025).

At the present rate of attrition, the IDF will have killed 70,000 to 72,000 Palestinians before the end of the year (AI and pencil and paper calculations).

By contrast, note that it took 20 years for the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Viet Cong (VC) guerrillas to kill 58,281 of our Servicemembers in SE Asia; the IDF easily surpassed this number in one-tenth of the time.

Meanwhile, Israeli real estate developers and zealous Settlers are lining up to carve up the Gaza Strip in what Beelzebub Smotrich called a "real estate bonanza." CBS news, in the hands of the oligarchs Larry and David Ellison, will ignore these depravities while bleating AIPAC talking points to the American public.

An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC remains active for the 'Butcher of Bethlehem,' but remember that an indictment is merely an allegation. Benjamin Netanyahu is presumed innocent until proven guilty by the international tribunal which will be held for him at a future date in the Hague.

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-03 12:59 PM

What would this man say about the subtle foreign hijacking of his television network? www.seacoastonline.com

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-03 04:06 PM

It's not a good place right now': CBS News staffers are literally freaking out' about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom.
People are using words like 'depressing' and 'doomsday,' one source said about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.the-independent.com

cdn.thewire.in

CBS News will become another Faux News.

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-04 02:10 AM

Bari Weiss is a centrist, and so is her wife.

#12 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-04 10:32 AM

Yeah. She's a Zionist Centrist who supports ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Yeah we get it.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-04 11:48 AM

Bari Weiss got Rafeet Alarear and his family murdered by the IDF.

---- that Bigoted Racist Bitch.

I hope she Strangles on her own Vomit.

Giving people like that control of the flow of information Is Dangerous and Stupid.

She's Boring and self promoting like Lewser too.

Yuck.

#14 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-04 04:25 PM

"Bari Weiss got Rafeet Alarear and his family murdered by the IDF."

Did she? How did she do that? From what I've read, it sounds like she simply retweeted his own words, which were extraordinarily foolish given the context even if they were sarcastic. Do you think that's the only reason he was targeted?

"She's Boring"

How can she be both boring and controversial?

and self promoting

Is that necessarily a bad thing?

like Lewser too.

A person you voted for, apparently.

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-05 12:47 PM

Bari Weiss Takes Shots At Tucker Carlson

Who do you agree with?

#16 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-05 07:02 PM

Jenk's reaction seems like an actual class strawman argument.

#17 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-05 07:05 PM

*classic

Damn autoconnect.

#18 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-05 07:22 PM

More from the article ...

... "I am confident her entrepreneurial drive and editorial vision will invigorate CBS News," said David Ellison, who took over this summer as the corporate leader overseeing the network when his company, Skydance, purchased Paramount. "This move is part of Paramount's bigger vision to modernize content and the way it connects " directly and passionately " to audiences around the world." ...

#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-06 01:13 PM

@#1 ... "I am confident her entrepreneurial drive and editorial vision will invigorate CBS News," said David Ellison, who took over this summer as the corporate leader overseeing the network when his company, Skydance, purchased Paramount. ...

So, MAGA continues to take over the news?

#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-06 01:14 PM

So, CBS will be constant gaslighting and right wing victim complex nonsense now?

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-06 01:35 PM

#3: So, CBS will be constant gaslighting and right wing victim complex nonsense now?

Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow will be rolling over in their graves: drudge.com

#22 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-06 01:49 PM

Good for her. Anyone who annoys both the far left and the far right can't be that bad.

#23 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-06 01:53 PM

Anyone who annoys both the far left
#5 | Posted by sentinel

"Far left"
Is there any other kind?
Name a leftist that isn't "far left."

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-06 01:55 PM

Anyone who annoys both the far left
#5 | Posted by sentinel

"Far left"
Is there any other kind?
Name a leftist that isn't "far left."

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-06 01:55 PM

Don't make me ask a third time, boy!

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-06 01:56 PM

... bought the news and commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as the editor-in-chief of CBS News ...

The Free Press (Common Sense) " Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

...Overall, we rate The Free Press as Right-Center biased due to its consistent criticism of left-leaning views, especially on cultural and social issues.

We rate them Mixed for factual reporting because, while articles are generally well-sourced, the outlet often presents one-sided opinion pieces that lack counterarguments or broader contextual balance. ...


#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-06 01:57 PM

The far left in this country is Bernie Sanders, who wants everyone to have health care.

The far right is Nick Fuentes who is a white supremacist.

Sentinel can't tell the difference between these two because he's a moron.

#28 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-06 01:57 PM

The far left in this country is Bernie Sanders"

Are you telling me the Political Compass lied???

#29 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-06 02:00 PM

Name the far left then.

And play your 'both sides" game.

#30 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-06 02:02 PM

*crickets*

#31 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-06 02:57 PM

I don't know your real name. Even if I did, I don't believe in doxing.

#32 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-06 03:13 PM

So you can't name anyone on the left who isn't far left.

Thanks for confirming your implicit bias.

#33 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-06 03:23 PM

LOL I'm far left.

Nice dodge, sentinel. You're useless as ever.

#34 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-06 03:39 PM

Good for her. Anyone who annoys both the far left and the far right can't be that bad.

#5 | Posted by sentinel

Childish, nonsensical thinking at its best.

#35 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-06 04:50 PM

Nice dodge, sentinel. You're useless as ever.

#16 | Posted by Alexandrite

Just tell him you have a swastika tattoo, and you'll be all good in his book.

#36 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-06 04:51 PM

It's a sure sign that I'm right and getting under someone's skin because they can't think of a substantial retort whenever that card is played.

#37 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-06 07:27 PM

The CBS brand may never recover. The big networks are less relevant every year but this terrible decision might be what kills CBS.

#38 | Posted by qcp at 2025-10-07 08:37 AM

#38 Between this and cancelling the Late Show it really sounds like they want streaming services to take the place of broadcast TV.

Maybe CBS is just a money laundering business at this point so it doesn't matter if they go under; who can really say these days.

#39 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-07 09:18 AM

So they might actually become slightly objective?

#40 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-10-07 09:33 AM

Objective?

If they were objective they would say what Israel is doing in Gaza is Ethnic Cleansing, like Charlie Kirk did.

#41 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-07 09:37 AM

Good for her. Anyone who annoys both the far left and the far right can't be that bad.
List the far-right that is annoyed: _______________.

It's a sure sign that I'm right and getting under someone's skin because they can't think of a substantial retort whenever that card is played.

You made a statement that you can't even begin to back up with a single real example. You can't name who is "far left."
Now you look like an idiot for trying to make that ridiculous false equivalence.

#42 | Posted by YAV at 2025-10-07 09:48 AM

Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have both bashed Bari. I'm sure there are more, but I'm not your personal assistant.

#43 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-07 11:12 AM

x.com

#44 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-07 11:14 AM

It's a sure sign that I'm right and getting under someone's skin because they can't think of a substantial retort whenever that card is played.

#37 | Posted by sentinel

Oh c'mon SSentinel. It's only a joke.

#45 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-07 11:57 AM

So they might actually become slightly objective?

#40 | Posted by BellRinger

Why do you constantly use words you don't know the meaning of?

#46 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-07 11:57 AM

So they might actually become slightly objective?

#40 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2025-10-07 09:33 AM | REPLY

Bari Weiss' journalist experience is solely editorial ie opinion

Iow she is completely UNQUALIFIED to be objective

#47 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-07 12:20 PM

BullBringer thinks being objective means to blindly parrot Donald Trump, like he does.

#48 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-07 12:21 PM

"It's only a joke."

#45 | Posted by j-w at 2025-10-07 11:57 AM

#49 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-07 12:54 PM

Bari Weiss is a blatant ZioNazi.

She might as well be Ilse the Bitch of Buchenwald.

These are the times we live in.

People with Actual Blood on their Hands given control of Media outlets to millions.

Bari Weiss did than retweet Rafeet Alareer's Sarcastic Tweet.

She pushed IDF action Against him and his Family.

She Advocated for his murder.

I hope her own life is Cut Short.

#50 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-07 01:37 PM

"Bari Weiss did than retweet Rafeet Alareer's Sarcastic Tweet.
She pushed IDF action Against him and his Family.
She Advocated for his murder."

It shouldn't be difficult to show us exactly where she did that, if she did. I've seen lots of accusations pinning the blame on her, but so far zero evidence beyond projections onto her retweet.

#51 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-07 08:50 PM

@#47 ... Bari Weiss' journalist experience is solely editorial ie opinion

Iow she is completely UNQUALIFIED to be objective ...

Bingo.

And that may be the sole reason why she was placed into the position.

#52 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-07 09:19 PM

She's doing the "Let's listen to the Nazis, and if their ideas are bad, better ideas will prevail" shtick that Charlie Kirk did.

The only speech they advocate for is Nazi speech.

#53 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-07 09:33 PM

She incited Mass Murder.

She's Trash. Bigoted self Aggrandizing Trash.

So Self Important...So Concerned about "the Jews".

Every Accusation is a Confession.

Murderers given the biggest Bullhorn on Earth.

To Justify or Obscure their Crimes.

Legacy Media is Dying, thank God.

People don't believe the lies anymore.

#54 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-07 10:13 PM

@#54

More talking points that might have been issued to your current alias?


#55 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-07 10:26 PM

-So Concerned about "the Jews".

Most of the left can't stand you but they rarely call you the anti-Semite you are.

I guess ragging on MAGA folks gets you pass but they know you're a holocaust denying anti-Semite.

#56 | Posted by eberly at 2025-10-07 10:28 PM

@#47 ... Iow she is completely UNQUALIFIED to be objective ...

Will he goal be to be providing objective reporting? Or catering to the Trump administration?

While I do agree that CBS news has leaned towards the left of late, but is that because the right has been proffering unsubstantiated phlegm?

CBS News " Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate CBS News as Left-Center biased based on story selection that moderately favors the left and is High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record. ...

There's that "High for factual reporting" that I have a concern may vanish.

#57 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-07 10:34 PM

"I've got to be careful the way I say this, they're gonna try and ethnically cleanse Gaza."
--Charlie Kirk
m.facebook.com

#58 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-07 10:36 PM

" So Self Important...So Concerned about "the Jews"."

You are vile.

#59 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-07 11:06 PM

"I hope her own life is Cut Short."

You're doing exactly what you accused her of. If anything happens to her, blood will be on your hans.

#60 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-08 04:55 AM

Bari Weiss to the CBS staff: "Let's do the ---- news." bsky.app

#61 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-08 07:06 AM

#60 I'm not ACTING on it.

She Incited the Murders of at least five people, all members of the same family.

Because of a Bad Joke. She was online with IDF pushing them to strike.

These people are really Dead. ---- her and ---- you Too.

My Consience is clear. I'm not actually Trying to Get Her Killed.

I'll Just be glad if she is.

#62 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-08 07:54 AM

People have been banned from this site for less vile comments than the ones Footposer made above.

#63 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-08 08:25 AM

You led the charge against them, didn't you?

#64 | Posted by YAV at 2025-10-08 09:09 AM

She's one with the "Intellectual Dark Web". CBS News is about to take a hard right. Ed Morrow is roiling in the deep.

archive.ph

#65 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-10-08 09:14 AM

"CBS News is about to take a hard right."

Yeah I don't get how people keep saying this person is some kind of "liberal."
Perhaps a Classical Liberal from the 17th Century, aka a Laissez Faire Capitalist.
Fact is: Nobody who supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza is a Liberal.

#66 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-08 09:18 AM

"Journalism that holds both parties to equal scrutiny - the party that is an insane cult which attempted a fascist coup, and the other party that didn't - must be treated the same"

fascist --------. demanding reporters help whitewash fascism.

#67 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-08 12:57 PM

she didn't write #11 - thou shalt not criticize the policies of israel or make note of the influence they wield over other countries.

#68 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-08 12:59 PM

69!!!!!!!!!!!

#69 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-10-08 01:09 PM

Partisan hacks and their useful idiots always attack the center. Just because Fox News cynically used the phrase "fair and balanced", some people actually believe fair and balanced is a bad thing. Sane and honest people know that foreign enemies have been using both the far left and the far right to cause chaos and disruption in the US. If you think otherwise, you're either a useful idiot or have probably have sympathies towards those who want to destroy the country.

#70 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-08 01:17 PM

Just because Fox News cynically used the phrase "fair and balanced", some people actually believe fair and balanced is a bad thing.
#70 | Posted by sentinel

Describe "Fair and Balnced" in the context of Nazis vs Jews.
Should we listen to both sides; give both sides equal time?

#71 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-08 01:22 PM

Partisan hacks and their useful idiots always attack the center.
#70 | Posted by sentinel

What is the center between democracy and fascism?

#72 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-08 02:00 PM

Mass Murder is where it gets tough to be a both sider.

Hamas was wrong to attack Israel but they were a non state actor resisting an ILLEGAL occupation of 50 years plus duration,an occupation marked by Extrajudicial Murders and Apartheid.

Israel is a sovereign State committing crimes against Humanity and ongoing Murders of Civilians to steal their lands and chattels.

It's pretty clear who the Bad Guys are.

And they ain't Hamas.

#73 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-08 02:37 PM

#74 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-08 06:53 PM

Describe "Fair and Balnced" in the context of Nazis vs Jews.
Should we listen to both sides; give both sides equal time?
#71 | Posted by snoofy

They never answer this question.
Because their answer is yes, equal time for Nazis.

#75 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-08 07:08 PM

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