Not for a minute should anyone believe that Bari Weiss is solely proceeding with

[no_hypocrisy]

incompetence. She's been told how to remaster Sixty Minutes.

I produced a small progressive radio talk show for almost 2-1/2 years without previous experience. And not many similar genre programs to learn from.

I wouldn't say I was incompetent as much as inexperienced.

But I managed to get a wish-list of guests that made all the difference. George McGovern, Ted Sorenssen, Carl Reiner, Jim Hightower, Greg Palast, Helen Thomas, Governor Don Siegelman, and more.

My point: Bari Weiss has been given her marching orders and she's being a good German soldier. This is no accident.

[johnnyfins]

1. You dont ask about making protestors look

More violent if you are incompetent. It means You have an agenda.

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[rampartd]

2. weiss will gat the blame for tearing down the institution

but the destruction is willful, and after a slick rebranding, a new guy will emerge, worse, but without the baggage.

[state of stupid]

10. Not If we remember and tell them to kiss my a$$, If you want my attention you are

going to have to earn it back. I have zero problem watching them getting flushed
down the toilet.

[The Madcap]

3. What they fail to realize is that there are more options than CBS.

We don't (yet) have a national unified single-outlet press in the U.S. Just because CBS is now a Nazi broadcaster doesn't mean we have to watch it.

If it gets too bad, we can turn off the networks and just watch Youtube for news (BBC, DW, etc.). (Wow, that's kind of depressing.)

[state of stupid]

9. I have not watched any of the "network news programs" for a very long time, years in fact.

It started when it appeared to me that the networks were telling the reporters to tow the
management line, that it was about ratings and not the truth, so I quit watching. You are
right in that there are quite a few more reliable sources to choose from. You just have to
do your homework.

[DinahMoeHum]

4. According to Rick Wilson. . .

Bari Weiss is little more than the trigger person in a Trump/Mafia-style bust-out

https://www.againstallenemies.net/p/bari-weiss-and-the-cbs-bust-out

Let’s be honest about Bari Weiss, because she will not be honest about herself.

She built a brand on a single, lucrative pose: the brave iconoclast, the heterodox truth-teller, hounded out of the priggish New York Times by the woke libtard mob, off to found a plucky little independent shop where Real Journalism could breathe free.

It was a good act. It sold subscriptions. It got her a podcast, a tote-bag readership, and a permanent seat on the Aspen-Sun Valley-Davos carousel, where the people who own things go to admire one another and bask in their comforts.

Then David Ellison wrote a check. About $150 million for The Free Press, and a title new title: editor-in-chief of CBS News, for a 41-year-old woman who, as the trades noted with admirable bluntness, has no experience working in broadcast TV. Not all skills scale and transfer; being a columnist isn’t like being a leading a major network.

It helps to know that, but she doesn’t. Hubris? Greed? The temptation to play above your skill set? Sure. Ambition is a cruel mistress.

And she reports, conveniently, not through the org chart but directly to Ellison himself. His eyes. His ears. His hand on the throttle, all to please Daddy Donald.

Here is what Bari Weiss does not understand, and what every stalking horse before her has failed to understand right up until the moment they’re loaded on the trailer for the glue factory; you are not the star. You are the bait.

[Warpy]

6. Nope, Ellison screeches at his yes men

and the yes men screech at the network honchos and they screech at Weiss.

Weiss seems thrilled to follow orders.

Pelley is lucky to have been canned while CBS still had a small shred of credibility.

[Initech]

7. Since Fuckhead stole the election, our safety nets are being torn down rapidly.

Fuck Trump and everyone who voted for him.

[oldmanlynn]

8. Can Americans withstand that constant propaganda from Republicans?

With cbs going right leaning pushing misinformation. How do Americans respond? Do we see it for what it is and cbs news dies out? With no shortage of right leaning media outlets how do Americans respond?

[GenThePerservering]

11. Weiss is just a tool

being used to destroy CBS.