Bari Weiss faces CBS woes as key show posts worst ratings ever
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...
Ah yes, the tried and true tactic of using underlings to deliver the bad news, which also just happens to provide insulation against complaints of direct interference
From rhe same Status piece: bsky.app/profile/spla...
So wait, Bari Weiss is... an idiot?
I regret to inform you that Bari Weiss is a hack.
it’s funny to imagine Weiss seeing West Virginia and Ohio as just being under a general “Appalachian Hick” umbrella and therefore interchangeable
Live shot of Bari Weiss and her role model for everyone
the hillbilly elegy part is 🫠
These are the kinds of things you do when you don’t understand what made 60 Minutes a product that people wanted to watch
"What if we tried to build an entire flagship news show out of my wife's painfully unfunny right-wing news roundup column?"
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...
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.
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.
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😬
CNN is shit, but this is an even shittier CNN in the very near future if the merger isn't stopped.
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
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
Scoop: Cecilia Vega broke her silence on Thursday and detailed how the Bari Weiss-led CBS News management tried to meddle in her stories, according to an audio recording of her remarks that I obtained. Full story in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...
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
Bari Weiss can go to hell!
Wait, wasn't she hired to burn CBS to ground in the most embarrassing, incompetent, and costly way possible? I may have misunderstood her assignment. Why else would she cancel the single most popularly rated late-night talk show that has more history and legacy than she will ever hope to achieve?
I normally watch CBS Morning News. I just said to my wife this morning, "they are slowly transitioning their reporting by not telling the rest of the story, only what works for Trump and his administration." It is sad!
Seriously, what were they expecting? Boycott CBS means ALL the shows.
When we See BS we run from it.
I don't watch anything connected to Bari Weiss. I have no idea where CBS Mornings is found. I remember when 60 Minutes meant something fine.
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...
"An absolutely uninspired choice but par for the course. Bari loves anyone who has her shared experiences – particularly when it comes to any kind of kerfuffle even remotely related to the NYT,” a CBS reporter told me about Bari Weiss bringing Mike Pesca to CBS News. zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Bari: you can’t use the word genocide when referring to Israel Bari: saying the n-word is free speech
Hmm, certain situations such as... right before getting punched in the face?
He can say it whenever he wants. I don’t know what the argument is. Say it chief.
“Can We Make the Protesters Look More Violent?” 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley blows the whistle on Bari Weiss’ CBS News. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
To hell with CBS and Paramount.
so very fucking much of what is broken with our country is because a bunch of the worst people on the planet are big mad they don't get to drop hard r's without being judged
Bari Weiss sure loves those “free speech” advocates.🙄
Sad. This is the path that guy’s been on for 6-7 years. Working for somebody like Bari ends up the landing spot for every guy like this. Woof.
Watching anything connected to CBS News is like continuing to use Musk's little hate machine — time to reconsider your life choices.
Last time I listened to him he just whined about cancel culture which is the most boring and pointless shit in the world
New York City since Mamdani was sworn in: a booming job market; a soaring economy; a very healthy real estate market; and the lowest crime numbers since Dwight David Eisenhower was president. Plus Trump think he's a very hot man. Bari Weiss and Jonathan Greenblatt have gone into a state of apoplexy
#NYC Nets 40K NEW JOBS under #Mamdani 🏆 @cnbc.com @wsj.com @financialtimes.com @theguardian.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Crime at record lows, commercial real estate leasing best since 2000, wonderful small interventions to make the city more pleasant, habitable, and manageable, and real movement on long-term goals around affordability especially for those who make this city work and really need support.
Even the Ellisons must know: just to protect their fascist money, they have to fire Bari Weiss Cecilia Vega (fired by Weiss) says Weiss's henchmen demanded she put MAGA bullshit conspiracy theories into Renee Good and Iran 60 Minutes stories as if they were real, per @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
I will rejoice the day they fire that trollop, even though I haven't watched CBS since they canceled The Beverly Hillbillies in 1971.
Wow. Not content to merely skew reality to favor her fascist masters, Weiss was actually trying to manufacture false reality to slander innocent murder victims to benefit Trump's secret police. Julius Streicher would be so proud of her.
60 Minutes now has a laugh track— they just forgot to record it…
I'm reminded of a $787,500,000 settlement
I started watching 60 Minutes somewhere around ten years old in the early seventies. CBS is dead to me after all those years.
One might think firing was an obvious strategy at this point — except: if you buy a Weiss, there is no return policy. Such clear and capable decision-making probably wouldn't have invested in Weiss to begin with. Like so many of his ilk, Ellis has to dance with the date he brought, poor thing. 🤪
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)
2/ Shocked not shocked that the CBS News home page has only one piece about the cyclosporasis outbreak in 41 states and it's the 'oh its not so bad, stop blaming trump' opinion piece from noted quack Alex Berenson. You have dig deep to find the network's actual news stories... www.cbsnews.com
He should eat the lettuce live on CBS to own us
Would it be bad of me to really hope he catches cyclospora?
I guess Taylor Farms is paying CBS as well.
I got blocked and told I was being Very Mean when I reminded Emma Green, etc of the death toll since the publication of pieces on how the libs were overreacting to COVID after the vaccine. I kept a count, lol. This reminds me of that very mindset, why in part that our public health is a mess.
Totally not the point but that is cabbage, not iceberg 🤦🏼♀️
alex became an expert in always being wrong about covid after writing a book about how WEED KILLS that was debunked to death on pub day about as head-spinningly fast as jesse singal writing anything about trans people, and it's probably safer to assume he just has a grudge against everyone now
Bari Weiss leaps to the defense of RFKJr, in the process further trashing the reputation of CBS News. bsky.app/profile/news...
Bari Weiss' CBS struggles deepen as key show records worst ratings ever: report #RawStory
Bad news that is really good news!
What gives a nitwit like this the hubris to think she can do a better job without ANY meaningful experience? Add to the fact that the sucking up to wingnut a-holes completely ruins any hopes for credibility? Did they think hiring a cultural minority would inoculate them from a FASCIST label?
Well done people! Keep up the good work of not watching See BS
They're doing great. By the lowest bar standards that define this cabal.
Maybe high ratings aren't the goal of Bari Weiss, new CBS News Head? Being a Trump mouthpiece is its own reward perhaps for the Ellisons.
A Trump mouthpiece with no audience (or advertisers) is not very useful.
Exactly this. They will see these numbers and reach the conclusion that the American public is becoming disengaged and worn out, which is the goal. That is not reality, but it is what they will see.
Those owning stock may have an entirely different view of the reward system over time. I don't so I'll enjoy watching a once venerable network circle the drain and Weiss eventually getting the heave ho.