“Which is fine. That’s who she is. But Bari’s definitely not trying to do more and more pieces that fluff Trump. She may be trying to inject a little more ‘fair and balanced’ into the 60 Minutes pieces here and there,. I’m sure that’s what Scott Pelley objected to. But that’s not [necessarily] a bad goal.”
Right now the general line of thinking among the vast majority of journalists, editors and columnists out there is that Weiss is some kind of right-leaning equivocator who is in fact invested in stories that won’t adhere to what can fairly be called a classic 60 Minutes mindset. This doesn’t strike me as particuarly insightful.