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"Newsroom culture clash" at CBS News

ted chittenden said:
Here is Daily Kos' take on the current situation at CBS News. It doesn't look pretty.
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What the article documents is that some of the traditional CBS News audience has left the Evening News, and hasn't been replaced by a new audience. That may be temporary, but the fact is the audience they're aiming at has no reason to leave the media they currently use. It's not as if CBS News is providing something unique.

What it also points out is how hard it is to become what Bari Weiss is aiming for, which is that kind of topical news that gets picked up in social media and becomes water cooler talk. So far, they haven't been able to do that, even with 60 Minutes.

The fact of the matter is the president is his own news network. He was the one who distributed the first pictures of the shooter, not the FBI or any law enforcement. Everyone else got their news from him.
 
ted chittenden said:
www.dailykos.com

Has the MAGA makeover left CBS News beyond repair?

The ongoing effort to convert CBS News into a pro-Trump, pro-MAGA enterprise is proving to be a spectacular ratings failure for the network. Status reported Tuesday that “CBS Evening News” with anchor…
www.dailykos.com www.dailykos.com


Here is Daily Kos' take on the current situation at CBS News. It doesn't look pretty.
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A bit of over the top prose in the article, but on balance that is indeed a currently unpleasant picture.

Unfortunately, it’s the “in the trenches” staffers with little realistic option to just pack up and go who are inevitably hurt by the decisions of those at the top.
 
CBS News is now under the direction of Bari Weiss, who is not exactly a conservative. To see some railing against her as being MAGA is laughable.
I do believe that she wants to maintain better journalistic balance. Towards what end I don't know, as the CBS brand by now is so tainted amongst anyone who is MAGA that you aren't bringing those viewers back my making a few tweaks.

This to me looks like the situation which has occurred in many workplaces where the inmates were allowed to run the asylum for some period of time and when new management comes in and finally tries to reassert its authority they start howling in protest. Apparently they do this by leaking things to other media, which seems the be the only M.O. with which they're familiar.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
CBS News is now under the direction of Bari Weiss, who is not exactly a conservative.
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Technically speaking, neither is the president. He wants government insurance and gun control.

He has also expanded the government in ways that would make most conservatives freak.

But some people don't like change, and that includes CBS News.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
CBS News is now under the direction of Bari Weiss, who is not exactly a conservative. To see some railing against her as being MAGA is laughable.
I do believe that she wants to maintain better journalistic balance. Towards what end I don't know, as the CBS brand by now is so tainted amongst anyone who is MAGA that you aren't bringing those viewers back my making a few tweaks.

This to me looks like the situation which has occurred in many workplaces where the inmates were allowed to run the asylum for some period of time and when new management comes in and finally tries to reassert its authority they start howling in protest. Apparently they do this by leaking things to other media, which seems the be the only M.O. with which they're familiar.
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This really is a great point. Weiss does not carry water for MAGA and has strived for balance whereever she's worked.
 
umfan said:
This really is a great point. Weiss does not carry water for MAGA and has strived for balance whereever she's worked.
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Yes, "balance" such as writing that the children who starved to death in Gaza "would've died anyway because they had pre-existing conditions".
www.dropsitenews.com

The Free Press Called Out "Incomplete" Reporting on Gaza's Starving Children. Here's the Complete Story.

CBS's Bari Weiss touted Free Press article as the "ground truth." Drop Site spoke to the actual families.
www.dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com
 
TheBigA said:
The final segment on Sunday's 60 Minutes dealt with the constitution:

www.newsbreak.com

‘60 Minutes’ Sends Pointed Message in Final Moments of Show - NewsBreak

60 Minutes ended its Sunday night episode with a pointed message about American democracy. During the show’s “The Last Minute” segment, correspondent Ander
www.newsbreak.com www.newsbreak.com
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TheBigA said:
The final segment on Sunday's 60 Minutes dealt with the constitution:

www.newsbreak.com

‘60 Minutes’ Sends Pointed Message in Final Moments of Show - NewsBreak

60 Minutes ended its Sunday night episode with a pointed message about American democracy. During the show’s “The Last Minute” segment, correspondent Ander
www.newsbreak.com www.newsbreak.com
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I don't know if the segment mentioned it (I usually don't watch/listen to "60 Minutes,", but the above-linked essay fails to mention Marbury vs. Madison, the case where the U.S. Supreme Court gave itself the sole power of interpreting the U.S. Constitution. And when was that case decided? Back in 1801.
 
"Dealt with the Constitution" is pretty pointless information. For all I know they could have said "The Constitution sucks and we need to get rid of it", and I guess that would technically qualify as "dealing with the Constitution". What was the specific point about the Constitution that they were trying to make?
 
pagesix.com

‘60 Minutes’ star Sharyn Alfonsi lawyers up for Bari Weiss battle as she faces the chop from CBS at end of the month

Last week, Sharyn Alfonsi told the crowd while picking up a Ridenhour Prize: “My hope recently has been that I still have a job.”
pagesix.com pagesix.com

www.yahoo.com

’60 Minutes’: Sharyn Alfonsi Reportedly Axed After Bari Weiss Drama

A new report says that Alfonsi will be out at CBS News at the end of this month.
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

Congrats to Sharyn Alfonsi for her time at CBS News and 60 Minutes. Yes as always its the role Davis Ellison and Bari Weiss are doing at Paramount thats at play here.


The next journalist to get the axe at CBS News will reportedly be 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who has been with the program since 2015. Alfonsi will be “out at the end of the month when her contract expires,” according to a new report from Page Six Hollywood.

This news comes months after Alfonsi became at odds with CBS News’ editor-in-chief Bari Weiss after Weiss pulled one of her 60 Minutes segments, which criticized Donald Trump‘s administration, from airing. The segment investigated the Trump administration’s deportation of Venezuelan migrants to a terrorism confinement center (megaprison) in El Salvador. It was pulled just hours before airtime.

Alfonsi, in a memo leaked to the press, accused Weiss of holding the story because it critiqued the Trump administration. She insisted that the decision was made for “political” reasons and not “editorial” ones. Weiss, on the other hand, said she pulled the story because it lacked on-record responses from the administration. The segment eventually aired in January, but tensions between Alfonsi and Weiss reportedly continued.
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www.rawstory.com

CBS News' Bari Weiss threatened to sue 60 Minutes reporter after axed story furor: report

www.rawstory.com www.rawstory.com

Here is more on the daily drama with Bari Weiss and the CBS News staff as they face Sharyn Alfonsi being removed from the network.

deadline.com

David Ellison Set For Cash, Stock Awards Valued At $150 Million After Close Of Paramount-WBD Deal

The amount includes a $50 million cash bonus and restricted stock units valued at $100 million.
deadline.com deadline.com

Here’s the other issues surrounding paramount as they get approval for the WB merger.
 
It seems like NewsNation "fits" the prototype people give to CBS more than CBS actually does. Last night, I saw it on and they tried to act like "both sides were equally bad" but immediately said for instance John Fetterman is the "only Democrat" who cares about border security and there needs to be "more like him."
 


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