Erika Kirk Town Hall Looks Like A Flop For CBS And Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss’ much-hyped CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk was a massive ratings flop

According to Nielsen, the Saturday night town hall saw a 27 percent decline in viewership compared to the network’s standard programming in that time slot year to date.

Nobody (Including Advertisers) Cared About Bari Weiss’ New CBS ‘Town Hall’

We've already explored at length how Bari Weiss was hired by the billionaire Ellison family to make CBS even more friendly to billionaires and authoritarians after their embarrassing capitulation to (and bribery of) U.S. autocrats. This isn't really a pivot real people were actually asking for, it's simply extension of the right wing extraction class's…

Erika Kirk Town Hall Looks Like A Flop For CBS And Bari Weiss

CBS News hosted a town hall with conservative commentator Charlie Kirk’s widow last weekend.

Erika Kirk Bombs on CBS

It was supposed to be the next generation of programing for CBS News, under the leadership of Bari Weiss. Weiss was sitting down with Erika Kirk in a town hall. This was the type of interview you would have seen on 60 Minutes in the past, but Weiss wanted control of the message. So, how did it do in the ratings? Not good. The CBS primetime town hall averaged 1.5 million viewers, a whopping 20% decline in viewers compared to the year-to-date aver…

CBS Is Having a Bari Bad Time

CBS NewsBari Weiss has a problem: No one seems to like Bari Weiss very much. No, I’m not talking about you or I or anyone savvy enough to have clocked Weiss’ proprietary brand of bullshit years ago. I mean the logged-off, normal-brain-having hoi polloi who pointedly don’t swim in the feted swamp of internet media feuds. Those people (perhaps you know one or two?) don’t seem all that impressed by Weiss’ latest galaxy brain stunt to establish hers…