Weiss Appointment Sparks Rightward Fears

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max tani

@maxtani.bsky.social

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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by Glenn Greenwald — Reposted by: Trita Parsi

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David Klion

@davidklion.bsky.social

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

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Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

The U.S. press isn't capable of admitting this clearly, but Bari Weiss was hired to turn CBS into a right wing propaganda machine and troll operation

Paramount Formally Hires Bari Weiss To Turn What’s Left Of CBS News Into A Soggy Right Wing Propaganda And Troll Farm

It’s super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their “Conservative viewpoints silenced” now own or control most major U.S. media companies. Almost as …

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by Norman Finkelstein

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)

@nathankalmoe.bsky.social

So they’re going to focus CBS News on sex work?

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 19h

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Mark Rice

@markricehistory.bsky.social

Just like most of Obama's staffers based decisions on what fictional characters in The West Wing would do, apparently Weiss thinks she's going to play out The Newsroom in real time.

Aaron Sorkin TV really did a lot of damage to a certain type of elite-educated millennials...

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 19h

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Reposted by: Simon Lester, David Rosnick

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Eli Valley

@elivalley.bsky.social

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491
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Corey Walker
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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by Jonathan Wolff

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Jo Wolff

@jowolff.bsky.social

Define a horse, Bari Weiss.

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

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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Perry Bacon

@perrybaconjr.bsky.social

Weiss has done journalism that mattered--Free Press reporting got the interim Columbia president dumped. She will make CBS more conservative. But her real influence has been in politics, not media. She has helped create a conservatism that coastal elites can embrace. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it.

newrepublic.com

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Melissa Sweet

@melissasweetdr.bsky.social

CBS News staffers react to Bari Weiss being named editor-in-chief: ‘It’s utterly depressing’

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

CBS News staffers react to Bari Weiss being named editor-in-chief: ‘It’s utterly depressing’

Six network employees expressed a mix of emotions over the appointment in conversations with the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Catalano

@fabiancat.bsky.social

Corporate media sabotages democracy.
CBS is dead. Unsubscribe!
Long live independent media.

open.substack.com/pub/populari...

The devolution of CBS News

A network once revered for fact-based reporting is embracing right-wing pseudo-journalism

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Gerry Canavan

@gerrycanavan.bsky.social

THE NEWSROOM (2012-2015; 2026-2046 and three Oscar-winning films)

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 19h

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Michael McDonald

@electproject.bsky.social

CBS doing porn news is the eventual outcome

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 19h

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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by Andrew Jacobs

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him)

@drewjakeprof.bsky.social

oh no lol

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 19h

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."