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"Newsroom culture clash" at CBS News

TheBigA said:
Bari Weiss is now looking to cut costs, including Gayle King's salary:

barrettmedia.com

Gayle King Considering CBS News Future After Bari Weiss Looks For Salary Cut

King makes a reported $15 million per year.
barrettmedia.com barrettmedia.com

Not unusual after SkyDance paid billions, that the next step is cost cutting.
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How much could they save if David Ellison cuts his salary to $1/year? And however much Daddy's taking from the cash flow to pay back Davey's allowance?

I doubt either of them will need to ask Roberts Market* for a line of credit.

* the one and only "supermarket" in uber-toney Woodside, California, where Larry keeps his Koi pond.
 
TheBigA said:
Bari Weiss is now looking to cut costs, including Gayle King's salary:

barrettmedia.com

Gayle King Considering CBS News Future After Bari Weiss Looks For Salary Cut

King makes a reported $15 million per year.
barrettmedia.com barrettmedia.com

Not unusual after SkyDance paid billions, that the next step is cost cutting.
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If King is willing to take a pay cut, like O'Donnell did, she might be able to keep her job, at least for awhile longer. Her salary far exceeds any economic benefit she provides to CBS. That's not to say she doesn't provide some value. Maybe something will be worked out.
 
Weiserguy said:
How much could they save if David Ellison cuts his salary to $1/year? And however much Daddy's taking from the cash flow to pay back Davey's allowance?

I doubt either of them will need to ask Roberts Market* for a line of credit.

* the one and only "supermarket" in uber-toney Woodside, California, where Larry keeps his Koi pond.
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Woah I was thinking about the other one the Ellisons had a property in Hawaii that he said he would live in during Larry Ellisons "retirement" from Oracle. Yes I mean sell the property in Hawaii to invest in Paramount situation.
I had no idea they still had a property in Woodside, California given past reports about moving Oracle's main offices to Austin, TX. But then again the current state of Paramount is about all the decisions the Ellisons are doing.

www.builtinaustin.com

Oracle Announces Austin as Corporate HQ, Moving From Bay Area | Built In Austin

This is a significant change for the company, which has been based out of the Bay Area since it was founded in 1977.
www.builtinaustin.com www.builtinaustin.com

www.hawaiipublicradio.org

A look inside life on an island owned by Larry Ellison, the 4th richest person in the world

Imagine trying to make ends meet while living on an island owned by one of the richest people in the world. That’s the reality for some residents on Lānaʻi, who say the power dynamics of land control can get… complicated. In this episode, we talk to some of those residents who call Lānaʻi home —...
www.hawaiipublicradio.org www.hawaiipublicradio.org
 
TheBigA said:
However, you already have the producer's cut. So you can compare the two versions.

This is a test. We are now going to see who is in charge and how things work. Bari won the first battle. But she also laid out the reasons. What happens next means more than what happened. Because this woke everybody up. Tanya Simon is the EP. Do you trust her? Do you trust Sharyn Alfonsi? Do you trust the people who still work there? That's what this is about.

They're not just sheep who follow whatever the boss says. These are all fighters. They've been there before. We know this because Sharyn Alfonsi told us. If she hadn't, we would not have known any of this. Are they still there, or did they all quit? If they're all still there, they will fight for their reporting. They will do it in public. You don't get to be on the staff of 60 Minutes because you're a follower. You're a leader. That's how you got hired. So this is a test. We'll see what happens.
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If this is not a pretentious statement, I don't know what is. Its statements like this why nobody likes the press anymore. Of course they are following orders as of now...you have to be blind not to see that. Basically any criticism lodged at them, you come up with statements straight out of a corporate self help book and expect people to get on board and praise Bari Weiss. This is the mentality that led people to elect a president who called them "enemy of the people" and now they're busy alienating the half of the country who didn't initially think that so they can get the former, so that 100% of the audience will think they are awful.
 
tall_guy1 said:
Of course they are following orders as of now...you have to be blind not to see that. Basically any criticism lodged at them, you come up with statements straight out of a corporate self help book and expect people to get on board and praise Bari Weiss.
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I have no idea what you're talking about.
 
michael hagerty said:
Drew Magary at SF Gate weighs in:

www.sfgate.com

Bari Weiss suuuuuuuuuuuuucks

"It's time to play a little game of Know Your Enemy."
www.sfgate.com www.sfgate.com
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Wow, that guy certainly had an axe to grind.

Here's a more balanced take:

wdcnews6.com

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

You could be forgiven for not knowing how much people love CBS News. I certainly didn’t until a few weeks ago, but the hoary institution is once again being described as the “Tiffany network”—Edward R. Murrow saying, “Good night and good luck”; Walter Cronkite taking the manliest moment in all...
wdcnews6.com wdcnews6.com
 
umfan said:
Wow, that guy certainly had an axe to grind.

Here's a more balanced take:

wdcnews6.com

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

You could be forgiven for not knowing how much people love CBS News. I certainly didn’t until a few weeks ago, but the hoary institution is once again being described as the “Tiffany network”—Edward R. Murrow saying, “Good night and good luck”; Walter Cronkite taking the manliest moment in all...
wdcnews6.com wdcnews6.com
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What is WDCNews6?

It's not a TV station. And unlike Drew's piece, where he put his name on it, that's written by "WDCNEWS6 Staff". Wanna see what else carries that byline?

wdcnews6.com

WDC NEWS 6 STAFF

wdcnews6.com wdcnews6.com

Who are they? Well, according to their page on X (formerly Twitter), they are "serving the community with the latest news from around the glove and local news."


Now if you go all the way to the bottom of the Weiss article, you'll find a small blue thing saying "source link".

Click that and it takes you to the original piece---by Caitlin Flanagan at The Atlantic:

www.theatlantic.com

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com

Yep, they grabbed a gift link and posted it as their own...which you don't know it's not unless you click that link at the bottom.

Okay. Now, content.

First, Caitlin wrote her piece the day after Bari started at CBS.

And dude, this is a balanced take?

That she will somehow denigrate the storied CBS News—it has been reported that some staff members have delivered minatory instructions to not “mess with the Golden Goose(s) of ‘60 Minutes’ and ‘CBS News Sunday Morning,’” as though West 57th Street were the O.K. Corral—is a complete misreading of her and her vision, which is to bring the traditional methods of American journalism back to the news, and also to build a culture of ideas.
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Four months later, you can agree or disagree with Drew Magary, but he's got receipts. Caitin wrote hers with a crystal ball.
 
I provided that link because the Atlantic article was behind a paywall.

Yes, I regard what I shared as far more balanced than Magary's hit piece.

Since 80% of Margary's 'column' involved Weiss' history BEFORE CBS, he has no more receipts than the Atlantic column.
 
umfan said:
Yes, I regard what I shared as far more balanced than Magary's hit piece.

Since 80% of Margary's 'column' involved Weiss' history BEFORE CBS, he has no more receipts than the Atlantic column.
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Only if you don't click on the links. If you do, Drew's backgrounder on Bari is quite well sourced:

Weiss first made a name for herself as a student at Columbia (what’s with it always being Columbia, man?), where she waged a campaign against a group of Muslim professors she deemed to be antisemitic. Weiss, herself Jewish, accused these professors of stifling pro-Israel voices in class. Her accusations have been repeatedly, and credibly, refuted by people who were her fellow students at the time. But Weiss clearly saw a future in petty grievances and quickly built a career after Columbia in nursing those grievances.
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After college, Weiss eventually got a byline in the Opinion section of the New York Times, where she proved about as skilled with a pen as Adolf Hitler was with a paintbrush. For an example, here’s “We’re All Fascists Now,” which needed to be corrected by the Times after publication because Weiss had cited a fake Twitter account in an attempt to prove her point(?) that liberal campus protesters are just as fascist as the actual fascists they claim to abhor.
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More on the fake Twitter account:

www.imediaethics.org

Bari Weiss's opinion article cited fake Twitter for Antifa, New York Times adds editor's note

A New York Times opinion piece by Bari Weiss cited a fake Antifa Twitter account as evidence of criticism of the real commentator Dave Rubin.
www.imediaethics.org www.imediaethics.org
 
michael hagerty said:
Only if you don't click on the links. If you do, Drew's backgrounder on Bari is quite well sourced:





More on the fake Twitter account:

www.imediaethics.org

Bari Weiss's opinion article cited fake Twitter for Antifa, New York Times adds editor's note

A New York Times opinion piece by Bari Weiss cited a fake Antifa Twitter account as evidence of criticism of the real commentator Dave Rubin.
www.imediaethics.org www.imediaethics.org
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Those points in the article didn't come off as negative though. It made it sound like she was a "hero" for doing that in college.
 
tall_guy1 said:
Those points in the article didn't come off as negative though. It made it sound like she was a "hero" for doing that in college.
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How do you get that from this?

Weiss first made a name for herself as a student at Columbia (what’s with it always being Columbia, man?), where she waged a campaign against a group of Muslim professors she deemed to be antisemitic. Weiss, herself Jewish, accused these professors of stifling pro-Israel voices in class. Her accusations have been repeatedly, and credibly, refuted by people who were her fellow students at the time. But Weiss clearly saw a future in petty grievances and quickly built a career after Columbia in nursing those grievances.
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If you're referring to Drew's use of the phrase "made a name for herself", that's not always a positive.
 
michael hagerty said:
How do you get that from this?



If you're referring to Drew's use of the phrase "made a name for herself", that's not always a positive.
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Ted Bundy and Pol Pot made names for themselves… point taken!
 


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