“Even if CBS staffers (rightly) see Bari Weiss‘s Free Press as opinionated, it might not see itself that way; indeed, the site claims simply to be covering the world the way it is, when mainstream newsrooms have abandoned that role. (Already, in the press release announcing her appointment, Weiss promised to make CBS News ‘the most trusted news organization of the 21st Century.’)
“This isn’t to say that everything is relative. But the truth rarely just reveals itself. The choices journalists make in seeking it inevitably inform the stories they tell.” — from Jon Allsop’s “What Will Bari Weiss Do to CBS News?” (New Yorker, 10.6.25).
“The media meltdown around Bari Weiss, who is basically a sensible centrist with zero allegiance with the wokeys, is no different than the leftwing mob that ran her out of The New York Times, except that now she has control over the newsroom and is (gasp) forcing the CBS newsroom to adhere to traditional journalistic standards.” — @mattray4876.