Why Bari Weiss Is Hiring More Right-Wing Pundits than Journalists at See BS News

Jennifer Schulze

Americans once relied on CBS News to deliver fact-based news reporting. No more. The audience is fleeing as the network is subjected to a Trump-friendly makeover at the hands of owner David Ellison and news boss Bari Weiss.

Now, Weiss seems hellbent on replacing some of the news with conservative commentary, sidelining journalists in favor of pundits who share her MAGA-coded political ideology. Case in point, her new Senior Global Affairs Correspondent: Sir Trevor Phillips.

Before I get to that, it is important to understand a key difference between a broadcast network like CBS and a cable operation like CNN. Broadcast news programs have limited time to deliver the news. Cable news networks, on the other hand, have hours of air time to fill. Since gathering and reporting news is expensive and having opinions to share is not, cable networks have long filled air time by adding pundit segments. CNN has even built an entire program around clickbait exchanges between pundits.

Because CBS, unlike CNN, has only a handful of newscasts, it has traditionally used that more limited air time to deliver credible, fact-based news reporting by journalists. Not anymore.

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