Bari Weiss' load of bollocks

[marmar]

Bari Weiss defends decision to pull 60 Minutes episode on El Salvador prison


(Guardian UK) CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, defended her decision to pull a 60 Minutes episode on allegations investigating a notorious prison in El Salvador, arguing that the network’s priority was to ensure its coverage was “comprehensive and fair”.

In the memo sent to staff on Christmas Eve, Weiss said news organizations needed to do more to win back the trust of the American public and vowed that “no amount of outrage” would “derail us”.

“We are not out to score points with one side of the political spectrum or to win followers on social media,” according to the memo, signed by Weiss and other CBS News leadership and published in full by several media outlets. “We are out to inform the American public and to get the story right.”

The internal battle over the story exploded into public view after CBS announced the segment would not be a part of the show, despite extensive promotion. Weiss’s last-minute decision to hold the episode sparked outrage and charges of censorship amid Donald Trump’s second administration, though some conservative commentators generally aligned with the president have defended the move. In a private email sent to 60 Minutes correspondents that was subsequently made public, CBS correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who spent weeks reporting the episode, called the decision a “political one”. ................(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/26/bari-weiss-60-minutes-el-salvador-prison

[Attilatheblond]

1. Seems what she claimed to be doing is exactly opposite of what she did

and she bloody well knows it!

Win back the trust of the American people? Uh, that's a big fat FAIL!

“We are not out to score points with one side of the political spectrum or to win followers on social media,” Um, yeah, sure... did your mother have any children that lived?

CBS employees must be seething at the low regard she has for their intelligence. One might imagine more than a few of them will find ways of tossing wooden clogs into the machinery at CBS.

[Dulcinea]

2. She should have resigned or been fired immediately.

But she's not a journalist. She's a hack who used to run a blog. What does she know about journalistic ethics? NOTHING.

[Marie Marie]

3. Another pure incompetent with enough hubris to blanket the Earth.

[Iris]

4. Of course she did. It's good to see her grift with a full spotlight on it

[surrealAmerican]

5. In her own words she is aiming to "win back the trust of the American public" by ignoring their outrage.

How's that working out for you so far?

Of corse, she's lying, so the self-contradictory statement ought to be ignored, I guess.

[pecosbob]

6. Writers and actors should be boycotting Paramount, IMO.

[Hassler]

7. Bari is doing a bangup job of completing

The collapse of CBS. Chump will have an opening for her as FBI director when she gets fired at CBS

[JoseBalow]

8. What I resent most is the assumption

that we're all dumb morons, stupid enough to believe that line of bullshit.

The MAGA dipshits aren't looking for an explanation, she's talking to us.

[UTUSN]

9. She has a statue/bust of herself at "The University of Austin"

WEISS is Chris LICHT redux - tool of The Power, not speaking truth to it. Her holiday memo to staff:
WEISS is repeating the Chris LICHT fracas at CNN (confusing "freedom of speech with the political right" see quote below) - is holding "town halls" first with Erika KIRK who has nothing unknown or thought provoking to say and next with a static panel of talking heads with an outdated Top-Down authoritarian format seen everywhere on cable forever. The "now" is interactive, equality of the audience with the pretend pundits, and not subservient to official networks, cherrypicking topics and outlets. WEISS is taking the "new" out of the news, besides the worst part of collaborating with the Power, meaning not speaking truth to it.

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https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/bari-weiss-sends-scorching-email-to-cbs-staff-no-amount-of-outrage-will-derail-us/

Bari Weiss Sends Scorching Email to CBS Staff: ‘No Amount of Outrage… Will Derail Us’

.... “Right now, the majority of Americans say they do not trust the press. It isn’t because they’re crazy,” Weiss wrote, adding, “To win back their trust we have to work hard.”

Weiss listed off ways that 60 Minutes coverage can restore that trust. She added, “No amount of outrage — whether from activist organizations or the White House — will derail us. We are not out to score points with one side of the political spectrum or to win followers on social media. We are out to inform the American public and to get the story right.”

“Restoring the integrity of the news is a difficult task,” Weiss wrote. “We can’t think of a more important one.”

Weiss ended the memo, “Merry Christmas — and thank you, especially to everyone who is working over this holiday.” ....


*** (About her "The University of Austin" - with a marble bust of her: )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Austin
.... ... Steven Pinker told The Harvard Crimson that UATX had "confused freedom of speech with the political right"—that it had staffed itself primarily with people on the right, regardless of their position on free speech, extending to some opponents of it.[17] ....

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