Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources

CBS News may soon have no standards—literally

Bari Weiss, the contrarian Substacker turned editor-in-chief of CBS News, appears ready to hollow out or eliminate the outlet’s standards and practices team, claiming that they have “too much ...

Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources

EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.

Bari Weiss's One-Woman War on Quality

Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesAs the sloppy fart cloud that is Bari Weiss’s tenure atop CBS News continues to soak into the plush sofas and ergonomic desk chairs of the network’s c-suite offices, the vision of The New York Times’ whiniest alumna for the once-respected pillar of mainstream journalism is coming into…well, not “sharper” focus exactly (like most things Weiss, “sharpness” isn’t really an applicable term) but you ge…

Sources: Bari Weiss has complained that CBS News' Standards and Practices team has “too much power” and asked “what's the point of standards?”

Justin Baragona / The Independent: Sources: Bari Weiss has complained that CBS News' Standards and Practices team has “too much power” and asked “what's the point of standards?”  —  EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.