Paramount Pushes Back on Reports About Bari Weiss’ Role at CBS News

Paramount Already ‘Informally’ Considering Scaling Back Bari Weiss’ Role At CBS

When right wing billionaire Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby kid David) hired trolling blogger Bari Weiss to run CBS News, Weiss arrived with the promise of “balanced, fact-based news,” “independent, principled journalism,” and a unique “entrepreneurial drive and editorial vision” that would completely modernize the network and reach the “everyday Americans” she claimed were being “ignored by mainstream media.” In reality, she was hired by the bi…

Paramount pushes back on reports about Bari Weiss’ role at CBS News

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Literally No One Wants to Watch Diet Fox News

CBS’s big push to turn itself into diet Fox News under the “leadership” of a woman who’s only skill is flattering out-of-touch rich men’s biases may be coming to an end soon, according to Puck News. “As it closes in on its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount leadership has had informal discussions about changing Bari Weiss’s mandate at CBS News (and, eventually, CNN) in ways that would give her less control over TV,” they reported. …

Paramount is reportedly having second thoughts about Bari Weiss controlling TV news

From the beginning of her tenure at CBS News, it was well-known that Bari Weiss was not an experienced producer of TV news. She was an opinion columnist who started a blog that was then purchased by one of the world’s wealthiest families for a cool $150 million and handed a job at the top of one of the United States’ most venerated news institutions. But CBS News has had plenty of issues since Weiss took over, and as the aforementioned rich fami…

Bari Weiss Has Big Plans For CBS News. And That’s Before CNN Enters The Picture

The CBS News chief is expected to rejigger 60 Minutes and CBS Mornings over the next few months, even as a Paramount-Warner Bros. merger would kickstart an even larger reorganization.

Is CBS Looking to Bounce Bari?

Reports say that CBS is rethinking the Bari Weiss experiment. Weiss came into CBS News like a bull in a china shop and it hasn’t gone well. Puck news reports that CBS suits are discussing pulling back Weiss’s responsibilities and say she'd cede day-to-day control of Evening News, CBS Mornings, and 60 Minutes to a more experienced executive.CBS released a statement saying this is not true. "Bari has the full support of Paramount and David Ellison…