Weiss thinks truth and honesty get too much airplay, so now it’s other side’s turn.

what some asshole calls a "hoax"

That network is done, kaput, down the toilet.

watched cbs national news in years. I wasn’t even a big fan of Dan Rather, but am more so now. I liked Walter Cronkite and watched him.

quite a handful when he was working his way up the news ladder.

She needs to specify exactly what part of the story was so not "comprehensive and fair" that she ordered the whole story yanked off air just hours before airtime, for the first time in 60 Minutes history.

the majority of both bodies know exactly why she did what she did. Hell, some of those bobblethroats might even want to give her some worthless medal!

We can't keep letting these conservative media heads get away with making "fairness" pronouncements to cover up for their obedience to Trump's unconstitutional demands. We can't keep letting Trump decide what gets aired in the US. Our freedom depends on it.

She needs to be brought before the American people for her complicity in Trump's efforts to destroy the 1st Amendment.

Granted, we don't have the majority in either house, but that should change soon, especially if we don't display the defeatist attitude you are suggesting.

All of these media heads need to be hauled before the House once Jeffries is Speaker.

but THIS congress won’t do it! If anything, they, and at tRump’s suggestion, the DOJ will investigate what Democrats should be held responsible for that show not airing.

.... and should not be "accountable" to congress.

What's next? "We can do this the easy way or the hard way"?

Leni Riefenstahl of the 21st century.

But since she's not a journalist, she has no concept of journalistic ethics. She's just a two-bit hack who used to run a blog. I predict this won't end well for her. She got a job well above her talents & abilities by kissing up to billionaires & will pay the price eventually. Do you think Ellison will take the fall for this fiasco? Nope.

which it appears they had already done for that video.

A bunch of that video was pretty straightforward and factual.
You cannot unsee those images

Right. Gotta make sure the other side has an opportunity to make excuses, lie and gaslight.

Looks to me like she is doing what her bosses want.

n/t

90% jimmy

the Kennedy center's drop in entertainers and also patrons, cbs is in for a rude awakening. they think we are stupid and brainwashed like fox fools.........their ratings are taking a big hit already..........and look how many viewed the bootleg version.........she''ll be the death of a once great station.

CBS is crap with old cop shows.
The demo is old like me.
I only watch Colbert and football. Any 60 Minutes worth a damn will be on YouTube.
They pawned the Tiffany years ago.
CBS died in 2026 due to suicide.
Sad!

Of destroying what was left of CBS news integrity.

On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver did a segment on some of her reporting in the past with "The Free Press"

with FOXNews and being told all other news sources around the world
are fake news and are put into the editor position of CBS News-
What could possibly go wrong?
Of course they're going to try to turn it into a mainstream version of FOXNews!
If you were TEN when FOXNEWS debuted, you'd be about 40 today...

... is a Republican. As such, she is utterly devoid of even a sub-atomic trace of empathy or common human decency; she's congenitally incapable of critical thinking, and is steadfastly devoted to the furtherance of the diseased conservative belief system, which is a cancer. And cancer always destroys its host.

Might take some time - but the propagandists will all get what's coming to them.

We need to try the propagandists here too when this nightmare is finally over. They are all complicit in making and enabling the worst abuses of humanity and the Constitution happen.

And rightfully so. It will take longer than it should, but it will happen.

Prison story. There is nothing to be "fair" about.

That seems to be strongly implied here. She has no idea how the people under her management do their jobs, and she's not interested in finding out, because she already knows everything.

We also need to train our reporters to speak lovingly to magat morons who make no sense and have no intelligence.

By trying to make CBS' news shows FOX-lite, Weiss is going to lead it off of a ratings cliff.

Where are the WAG, SAG and IATSE?

There once was a boss with a pen
Who lectured the newsroom again:
“Do legwork,” she said,
From a very tall head—
To staff who’d been working since ten.

Bari spoke of “public trust” with a smile,
While pausing a story a while.
“Be fair,” was the call,
As she stopped it all—
A lesson in irony’s style.

She urged them to dig and to grind,
Seek truths that were hidden or blind,
Yet somehow that zeal
Took a sudden conceal
When the topic crossed power’s red line.

“Unexpected!” she chimed from above,
“Tell stories the audience’ll love.”
But unexpected, it seemed,
Was when journalists dreamed
Of scrutiny aimed up, not of.

So the staff did more “legwork,” no doubt,
While wondering what that’s about:
When years in the field
Are so quickly unsealed
By memos that talk, not report.

WEISS is Chris LICHT redux - tool of The Power, not speaking truth to it. Her holiday memo to staff:
WEISS is repeating the Chris LICHT fracas at CNN (confusing "freedom of speech with the political right" see quote below) - is holding "town halls" first with Erika KIRK who has nothing unknown or thought provoking to say and next with a static panel of talking heads with an outdated Top-Down authoritarian format seen everywhere on cable forever. The "now" is interactive, equality of the audience with the pretend pundits, and not subservient to official networks, cherrypicking topics and outlets. WEISS is taking the "new" out of the news, besides the worst part of collaborating with the Power, meaning not speaking truth to it.

*******QUOTE*****

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/bari-weiss-sends-scorching-email-to-cbs-staff-no-amount-of-outrage-will-derail-us/

.... “Right now, the majority of Americans say they do not trust the press. It isn’t because they’re crazy,” Weiss wrote, adding, “To win back their trust we have to work hard.”

Weiss listed off ways that 60 Minutes coverage can restore that trust. She added, “No amount of outrage — whether from activist organizations or the White House — will derail us. We are not out to score points with one side of the political spectrum or to win followers on social media. We are out to inform the American public and to get the story right.”

“Restoring the integrity of the news is a difficult task,” Weiss wrote. “We can’t think of a more important one.”

Weiss ended the memo, “Merry Christmas — and thank you, especially to everyone who is working over this holiday.” ....


*** (About her "The University of Austin" - with a marble bust of her: )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Austin
.... ... Steven Pinker told The Harvard Crimson that UATX had "confused freedom of speech with the political right"—that it had staffed itself primarily with people on the right, regardless of their position on free speech, extending to some opponents of it.[17] ....

*******UNQUOTE********

Nothing noble or great in that party. Just a bunch of of insufferable people you don't invite over for the holidays

I'll cut her slack until I start to see what direction CBS takes. And it won't just be one story.

I have no issue with the story being leaked. Apparently the leaker, to the best of my knowledge, had the legal right to leak it.

Still, I would rather have seen the story extended per the boss. I for one don't care if people feel like they've been insulted. People whining that they feel insulted is one pernicious way that objective, hard-hitting, factual journalism is censored..