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Bari Weiss faces CBS woes as key show posts worst ratings ever

journalismJul 23, 2026373,651

CBS Mornings logged its lowest-rated week in the program's history, averaging 1.59 million viewers for the week starting July 13, Nielsen data reported via Mediaite. That figure is down from an average of 1.83 million during the same July period in 2024, a 13 percent decline. The slump is being tied to Bari Weiss's rocky tenure as editor in chief of CBS News, which the article notes is owned by David Ellison's Paramount Skydance. Media critic Oliver Darcy warned that the turmoil under Weiss is affecting all three key CBS News programs, with CBS Evening News also hitting historically low ratings under host Tony Dokoupil. Weiss's changes to 60 Minutes have drawn particular attention: veteran correspondent Scott Pelley was fired after telling his boss Weiss was "murdering" the program, and correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega and Anderson Cooper are no longer part of 60 Minutes. The ratings drop for CBS Mornings and reported staff departures are presented in the article as concrete signs of widening troubles at CBS News under Weiss's leadership.

Bill Grueskin
@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Cecilia Vega describes what life at 60 Minutes was like under Bari Weiss, in the weeks before CBS fired her. Short version: One of the most disastrous debuts in modern journalism history. Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...

On a separate piece about Donald
Trump's Irag War, just three weeks into the conflict, Vega said she was told to introduce the story by saying, "Who is winning the war? Iran is totally outgunned by the United States and Israel." Vega called it an "administration talking point" used by the White House as it contended it was winning the war, which continues to rage months later without an end in sight.
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whet moser53

the hillbilly elegy part is 🫠

Cooper Lund34

These are the kinds of things you do when you don’t understand what made 60 Minutes a product that people wanted to watch

Scott Lemieux33

"What if we tried to build an entire flagship news show out of my wife's painfully unfunny right-wing news roundup column?"

Lindsay Beyerstein29

It's hilarious that CBS mandated the disclaimer that cued up the punchline to every joke about American imperialism for the last several decades: The Americans totally outgunned the enemy, but...

Nolan Hicks18

No television experience, no actual beat reporting or investigative reporting experience and you waltz in and try to tell the folks at most watched and most respected news program in America — the show that underwrites your whole division’s budget — how to do their jobs… whew boy idk.

AltStateGov15

Insane to read and find out yet unsurprising. It's like I knew it would be absolutely awful, but to read specific details still blows my mind.

AmyAlexCA15

Similar to how a #FresnoBee editor inserted (w/out my approval) the words “savage,” and “rampage” into my stories from #LA to describe residents who took to the streets following acquittal of white cops who beat #RodneyKing in ‘92. In that pre-Internet era, I only learned of the edits days later😬

Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate5

CNN is shit, but this is an even shittier CNN in the very near future if the merger isn't stopped.

Jesse Singal Vapes Piss4

see what the coastal elite libs (not Bari!) don't understand is that salt-of-the-earth heartland Americans actually love it when they're treated as interchangable right-wing totems that might as well all be from the same place in flyover country for all anyone cares

John Mone4

Ah yes dear billionaire, tis I the future of journalism, please give me 130 of thy sweetest millionaire dollars so Nellie and I go to Jackson Hole

LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸
@namwella1961.bsky.social

Mediaite: Bari Weiss' struggles at CBS have deepened. "CBS Mornings" saw the lowest-rated week in the history of the program and a rough July. The bad ratings mark a new low for Weiss' rocky tenure as the editor-in-chief. CBS viewers understood the assignment!😊 #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

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Justin Baragona
@justinbaragona.bsky.social

NEW in tonight's Ragebait: The man who Bari Weiss just hired to run CBS News' podcast division was suspended by Slate in 2021 for arguing with his colleagues -- many of them black -- that white people should be able to say the n-word in certain situations. zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
@newsjennifer.bsky.social

Another example of how Bari Weiss is polluting CBS News with crazy talk from her pals. The CBS homepage today features this drek by anti-science quack Alex Berenson. You might remember Alex, the guy who got everything wrong about covid. Now he says coverage of cyclospora is overblown. (It's not)



The Lettuce That Launched a Thousand Headlines

The cyclosporiasis outbreak is the fourth this year the media has blamed on Trump and RFK Jr. None of them have killed a single person.
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