CBS News boss Wendy McMahon exits amid Trump pressure, Brian Stelter, CNN, May 19, 2025
Denny Carter says:
"The Trump regime announced today that it would dispatch a “truth arbiter” who will monitor all CBS coverage to ensure the network does not criticize the regime’s fascist agenda or broadcast stories that might conflict with the push to unravel democratic self governance in the United States. It’s a sickening turn in our drift toward all-out authoritarianism – I’m begging corporate leaders to read one fucking book – and it’s one born out of the right’s bad faith, like every other major accomplishment their movement has secured in its slow-motion coup." ("The Media Bias Wars Are Over," Bad Faith Times, Aug 8, 2025)
As someone said in a deleted Bluesky post: "...at some point you bend the knee so far that you are just kneeling..."
Kennedy Center Board President weighs in on CBS controversy
— I. B. Cole (@ibc.bsky.social) December 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Stephen Miller is Bari Weiss's boss? "White House official Stephen Miller on Tuesday had an extreme response to what he called a “revolt” at CBS: “Fire” everyone who objected to CBS News boss Bari Weiss yanking a “60 Minutes” segment at the last minute." (HuffPost)
Bari Weiss Is Doing Exactly What She Was Installed at CBS to Do: By pulling a “60 Minutes” segment, the new editor-in-chief is torching the network’s credibility to protect the Ellison family’s interests. Adam Johnson, December 22 2025
This is quite a read about the BW attack on 60 Minutes. I'm glad it also highlights the incredibly solid reporting in the piece, a fact that has been largely overlooked in this red hot debate about Weiss' actions. Yes, what Sharyn Alfonsi & her team did here is journalism. Damn good journalism.
— @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) (@newsjennifer.bsky.social) December 31, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Dan D'Addario’s take on the new CBS Evening News is unflinchingly and deservedly brutal. “… a Weissian willingness to bulldoze past that which might seem too untidy for whatever hypothetical viewer he and his editor have in mind.” Good on him and Variety. variety.com/2026/tv/colu...
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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Read more: David Letterman Wrecks 'Idiots' At CBS News Over Rightward Shift The former "Late Show" host ripped the leadership at his old network's news division. Ben Blanchet, HuffPost, Jan 10, 2026
Sources: Bari Weiss has privately been deeply frustrated by the negative reaction to her CBS tenure and has blamed subordinates for not stanching the criticism (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer.com) January 13, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Tuesday morning: New CBS boss promises “huge emphasis on scoops.” Tuesday evening: CBS Evening News anchor interviews his mom. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) January 28, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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"The White House threatened to take legal action against CBS following anchor Tony Dokoupil's recent interview with the president if their discussion didn't air in full.
"He said, 'If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off,'" Leavitt told Dokoupil, according to The New York Times.
Trump had also told Dokoupil he owes his job to him during the interview."
— HuffPost, Jan 26, 2026
this email offers no details about what the actual offer is and you have to opt in before you find out lol
— Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) January 28, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Simply incredible
— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) February 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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I'm not saying CBS News is now a pedophile protection racket, just that it wouldn't be doing much differently if it weren't
— Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) (@kleinman.bsky.social) February 2, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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The party against cancel culture loves canceling everyone. deadline.com/2026/02/step...
— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) February 17, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) February 26, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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This is very bad. Handing CNN to Bari Weiss/David Ellison is very, very bad.
— Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) February 26, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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@semafor.com is such a perfect example of softball brunchlord media and the feckless way it normalizes and downplays radical censorial authoritarians reading this you'd barely be aware that Carr is a free speech trampling extremist (who in his free time guts telecom and media consumer protections)
— Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) February 26, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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March 20, 2026: Layoffs at CBS!
March 20, 2026: CBS News Radio Is Shutting Down After Nearly 100 Years Of Operation, Marita Vlachou
Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...
— Status (@status.news) March 24, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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David Ellison says 70% of Americans are centrist. Surveys tell a different story: Paramount Skydance CEO has repeatedly cited the statistic when laying out the approach that CBS News and potentially CNN would take, Jeremy Barr, Guardian, 6 Apr 2026
CBS News Streaming Staffers To Walk Out Tuesday
Bari Weiss Dialogue, February 17, 2021
Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report, Sarah Rumpf, Mediaite, Oct 2, 2025
CBS News Producer Warns ‘Shifting Set of Ideological Expectations’ In Bombshell Farewell Note: Alicia Hastey wrote that the network’s changes pressure “producers and reporters to self-censor.” Pocharapon Neammanee, HuffPost, Feb 12, 2026
60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley accuses Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ show: Pelley reportedly rebuked CBS ousting show’s executive producer, executive editor and two top correspondents. Jeremy Barr in Washington, Guardian, 1 Jun 2026
oh no what a terrible and completely unforeseeable thing to happen to one of the leading intellectual lights of her generation
— Anjali Dayal (@anjalikdayal.bsky.social) May 19, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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1. This is an extremely satisfying read. 2. Pelley is going to be replaced by someone who is at least willing to attest that everything Weiss is doing is great. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) June 1, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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Trump’s War On The Free Press Reaches A Terrifying New Milestone We’re watching a journalistic institution crumble in real time — revealing the chilling cost of the president’s war on media. HuffPost Editors Jun 2, 2026
Scott Pelley fired by CBS after ‘60 Minutes’ clash with management Brian Stelter, CNN, June 2, 2026
What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."
— Gil Durรกn (@gilduran.com) June 2, 2026 at 9:24 PM
she did warn us
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com) September 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Experience, Knowledge, and Talent Need Not Apply Trump suck-ups are poisoning America — not just inside the U.S. government Robert Reich, Jun 08, 2026
Veteran '60 Minutes' Star Has 'A Feeling' About Bari Weiss' Future — And She Won't Like It "I hope it’s going to come to an end, but I don’t have a great deal of confidence in Bari Weiss to do what she says that she’s going to do,” the "60 Minute" veteran said of the recent turmoil. Pocharapon Neammanee, HuffPost, Jun 12, 2026
Warner on CBS: I was embarrassed that the president went before our country and networks like yours carried this as news as opposed to a rehash of falsehoods. It is incumbent upon you and any responsible journalist to pushback on this.
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) July 16, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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CBS claimed “thousands” of 9/11 families wanted Zohran Mamdani banned from the anniversary ceremony. Then a journalist demanded the evidence—and the network quietly rewrote its story. #ZohranMamdani #CBSNews #MediaAccountability
— Moments to Remember | News (@moments2remember.link) July 28, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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Shocked not shocked that Bari Weiss hired yet another right wing opinion writer with no actual news reporting experience. That's her jam. However, I am shocked that Ross is only 46. Wow.
— @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) (@newsjennifer.bsky.social) July 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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While Douthat is a leading authoritarian thinker (he praised Orban for seeking to destroy higher education in Hungary), he -- like Bari Weiss -- is not a journalist.
— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) July 28, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Had Bari Weiss been hired by CBS-Paramount to secretly run a "Producers" scam and destroy all of "60 Minutes"'s value as quickly as possible it's difficult to imagine what should would've done differently.
— Ken Tremendous (@kentremendous.bsky.social) July 28, 2026 at 4:37 PM
It's fun watch Bari Weiss grasping her way to figuring out what journalism is through her hires at 60 Minutes. Is it when you ask a prominent person a question and nod? Is it when you make sure that something Benny Johnson said on Twitter makes it into a reported story despite it not being true?
— David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) July 28, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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