CBS Scion Throws Shade at Network's Trumpy Transformation

Bari Weiss’s rightward transformation of CBS would have horrified the man who built the once-revered news division, according to his granddaughter.

Nearly a century ago, William S. Paley took a fledgling radio network, the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System, and transformed it into the behemoth known today as CBS. His magnum opus, according to those who knew him, was building a news division revered internationally for its elite and informative coverage as war loomed in the 1930s.

But had Paley been alive to see the Tiffany Network’s Trump-tinged turn—driven by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and Trump-loyalist owner David Ellison—he would have been devastated.

“I think that my grandfather would be sad,” Brooke Byers, the granddaughter of the CBS patriarch, said in an interview with The Daily Beast, citing the network’s “unrecognizable” transformation.

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