Liberal journalists erupt after Bari Weiss joins CBS News as editor-in-chief
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The appointment of Bari Weiss as the editor -in -chief of CBS News triggered an online turmoil from liberal journalists and media numbers on Monday.
Weiss, a classic liberal who left the New York Times in 2020 after condemning what he calls “Illiberal Environment”, launched the independent media company The Free Press in 2022.
After he announced that Paramount had purchased Free Press for $ 150 million, he was named the editor -in -chief of CBS News on Monday.
Weiss was criticized by some on the cultural left for the ongoing war with Hamas, for the gender ideology and the free press report that challenged media narratives against Israel.
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Bari Weiss speaks at a Los Angeles event in September 2023. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times through Getty Images)
Liberal media commentators and journalists were arrested by Weiss’s rise to a strong position and went to social media to claim that the role was unqualified and that the Editorial leadership would weaken the reliability of CBS News.
One Shipment in Bluesky“Bari Weiss and JD Vance are very similar figures with very similar skills,” MSNBC server Chris Hayes compared Weiss with JD Vance.
Media Issues Fast response Deputy Director Andrew Lawrence Mocked Weiss in someone else Bluesky Post: “I’m Glenn Greenwald. I’m Kyle Rittenhouse. I am a speaking pepe memory produced by AI. I’m at least weiss, all these stories in ’60 minutes’.”
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie He printed his promotion As “an honor list grift”, Bari Weiss was trying to expel himself in a failed way. Now he’s running CBS news. This is Michael Jordan S —. “
Bari Weiss joined CBS News as a chief editor, Paramount buys free press for $ 150 million
Bari Weiss announced on Monday. (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Uber, X and Free Press)
“Anyway, I am looking forward to bringing back the trust of Bari Weiss’ trust in the news ,, it means pumping propaganda for your oligarch boss,” he added.
HuffPost Deputy Phil Lewis called the recruitment of “the media’s most news rooms to the right”, and the left -leaning culture blog was called a step to the “Vichy Period”.
Defector staff Patrick Redford wrote that the free press “only punched down and left,” and said that weiss had a “heart of a police and a neverse brain”.
Left -handed Kayrak Magazine Similarly, he predicted that the inheritance of Weiss would be a “disaster”.
“Weiss has built a career railing against Wokeses, and his critics are afraid that this may mean a more sympathetic CBS news for the reasons: Israel’s more unconditional support,” left “and more antagonism, more zohran mamdani and gender-gay care, more antagonism on common insects,”
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The new paramount owner David Ellison agreed to make an agreement with Bari Weiss and Free Press. (Through Charly Triballeau/AFP; through Getty Images, James Leynse/Corbis; Noam Galai/Getty Images for the Free Press)
In the CBS News, some employees reportedly reacted with horror and concern about Weiss’s arrival. A reporter told Independent“People use words such as depressing and apocalypse – it sounds like some kind of apocalypse.”
The reports of the agreement first appeared last month through Puck News and broke the anger of liberal journalists.
Oliver Darcy, the Conditional Bulletin writer, laid the upcoming agreement from CNN, and said that he would “further” further “to the CBS News among his audience.
“David Ellison promised not to politicize Paramount – but his first great move in CBS News is a big bet to Bari Weiss, one of the most polar figures in the media.” “We are proudly pro-Israel, proudly, ‘Wuboke’ cultural fighter, built the brand on polarizing political interpretation-in the word Ellison’s signal for the journalists to escape the type of material.”
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On Monday, September 30, 2024, the CBS News sign in front of the first vice president of the CBS Publication Center in New York. (Through Al Drago/Bloomberg Getty Images)
Similarly, HuffPost branded the “Polarization Editor of Free Press” in the Weiss report and to buy waiting ” Best trump allyIt aims to shape CBS news forward. ”
In both the network and the wider media industry, the CBS joins the CBS at the time of a turmoil with the cancellation of the “60 minutes” and the cancellation of the “Late show with Stephen Colbert”.
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Paramount CEO David Ellison promised Weiss’s “entrepreneurial driving and editorial vision will revive CBS news.”
“This is an important initiative for this company and at Bari will report to me directly – he will lead the work of the free press and cooperate with our CBS News team to lead the work of the free press and seek to make it the most reliable name in the news.” He said. He continued: “We believe that most of the country miss balanced and reality -based news and we want to be the Houses of the CBS.”
Fox News has reached Weiss for Digital Comment.
Fox News’ Brian Flood and Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
