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From: S. maltophilia10/7/2025 5:10:17 PM
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...Can Bari Weiss actually reshape CBS News?


Weiss has spent years pillorying the mainstream media for everything they get wrong, and has built her own alternative. But if the deal with Paramount closes, she’ll face a challenge of a different magnitude — trying to put her stamp on a major, long-established mainstream TV news network: the home of 60 Minutes.


One big question is whether she — and Paramount CEO David Ellison — are hoping to change CBS News to be somewhat more responsive to conservatives’ critiques, or whether they want to fully reshape it into a center-right operation.


According to a Semafor report, Weiss has discussed bringing on her old New York Times opinion section boss, James Bennet. Bennet has written at length about how he thought the Times went astray in 2020, but he isn’t exactly a right-wing ideologue: He was the top editor at The Atlantic and was a contender to become the top Times editor as well before his ouster.


I tend to think that you don’t put Weiss in charge of your mainstream media organization if you are seeking only minor changes. Which means...


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