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(61,045 posts) Tue Jan 27, 2026, 05:56 PM Jan 27

CBS News chief Bari Weiss tells staff 'we're toast' if they continue on current path [View all]

Source: Independent

Addressing her staff three months into her job as CBS News boss, Bari Weiss on Tuesday invoked legendary newsman Walter Cronkite as a symbol of old thinking and said that if the network continues with its current strategy, “we're toast.”

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No CBS News figure is revered quite as much as Cronkite, the “CBS Evening News” anchor dubbed “the most trusted man in America” during the 1960s and 1970s. Weiss said she understood the nostalgia.

“We can't reverse time's arrow,” she said, according to the copy her remarks. “He had two competitors. We have two billion, give or take.”

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Weiss said that “we in this building need to reflect more of the political friction that animates our national conversation” and “widen the aperture” of stories that CBS tells and voices that the network speaks to. CBS has notably had interviews with several Trump administration figures, and Trump was interviewed on “60 Minutes” on Nov. 2 and by evening news anchor Tony Dokoupil on Jan. 13.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/cbs-news-donald-trump-charlie-kirk-masih-alinejad-hr-mcmaster-b2908958.html

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CBS News chief Bari Weiss tells staff 'we're toast' if they continue on current path [View all] highplainsdem Jan 27 OP

She's hastening its demise. RandySF Jan 27 #1

CBS is already "toast" Sessuch Jan 27 #23

She has no fucking clue. NewHendoLib Jan 27 #2

So she's gonna double down for burnt toast. 🤨 tanyev Jan 27 #3

She can't attract an audience that advertisers give a hoot about. C_U_L8R Jan 27 #4

love it samsingh Jan 27 #27

"The Story" Kid Berwyn Jan 27 #5

If it heads the direction Weiss wants, let it die Whyisthisstillclose Jan 27 #6

Let the entire legacy media die. They have refused to do the duty of the 4th estate Bluetus Jan 27 #46

"widen the aperture" Nasruddin Jan 27 #7

Why don't they have radical left academics and Portland anarchists on? Prairie Gates Jan 27 #11

In photography, a larger lens aperture results in a shallower depth of field Seinan Sensei Jan 28 #54

Cronkite didn't "widen the aperture"...... SergeStorms Jan 28 #57

Turns out that becoming Trump's lying media propaganda network is not so successful. Lonestarblue Jan 27 #8

Nobody wants to see goofy internet discourse on their evening news Prairie Gates Jan 27 #9

I'm not sure what her message is. CrispyQ Jan 27 #10

Her message is RW gibberish and ego. highplainsdem Jan 27 #41

My guess: "Scoops" means instant regurgitation of anything her buds at the White House want disseminated. tanyev Jan 27 #50

Catering to Christian Nationalist and other immoral and deeply Un-American factions is the suicidal course. pat_k Jan 27 #12

Why watch Fox-Lite? Mz Pip Jan 27 #13

+1. dalton99a Jan 27 #14

+2. byronius Jan 27 #34

Why watch "Faux Faux" when you can get real Faux? hvn_nbr_2 Jan 27 #35

How's this for "a symbol of old thinking" BaronChocula Jan 27 #15

She is trying to turn CBS into Fox Bluestocking Jan 27 #16

Bari Weiss, cofounder of Jews for Hitler. paleotn Jan 27 #17

How DARE she even speak his name??? niyad Jan 27 #18

The woman is a Keepthesoulalive Jan 27 #19

Who was the idiot that hired her? WTH Barbegazi Jan 28 #55

Well, CBS DownriverDem Jan 27 #20

Wasn't haryn Jan 27 #21

See B S News MW67 Jan 27 #22

Without Colbert, all they have left is football for me. BidenRocks Jan 27 #24

Extra dark, please. nt eppur_se_muova Jan 27 #25

Stupid person UpInArms Jan 27 #26

News without truth and integrity has no future bucolic_frolic Jan 27 #28

Hey trump lackey what do you think Cronkite would say to you/CBS .......maybe something on the line I quit go pound sand turbinetree Jan 27 #29

for over a decade now, they've been telling us "we need to hear more from" the bigots in america unblock Jan 27 #30

Bari(barely) damifino10 Jan 27 #31

She must think she's so smart... Mike Nelson Jan 27 #32

Oh how cute, she thinks she's a news legend. Crowman2009 Jan 27 #33

"We should showcase more racism, more authoritarian anger and violence, more eliminationism" struggle4progress Jan 27 #36

Bari Weiss is 700 Club material, not serious news. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jan 27 #37

Do they have a board that can fire her? Puppyjive Jan 27 #38

Bari has been an outstanding Toastess Zambero Jan 27 #39

Too late. The toast is already burned beyond recognition relayerbob Jan 27 #40

SHE is "the current path" Skittles Jan 27 #42

A gay "news" executive working for and licking the shoes of an anti-gay President wolfie001 Jan 27 #43

The MAGA movement is losing on all fronts. The nation has rebuked fasscism. Martin68 Jan 27 #44

"He had two competitors. We have two billion, give or take." LudwigPastorius Jan 27 #45

Keep the greatest news anchor's name out of your fucking mouth. dem4decades Jan 27 #47

No one wants Fox lite. Old Crank Jan 27 #48

My wife and I have already stopped viewing CBS news since Barri Weiss took the helm. The changes have been clear and KPN Jan 27 #49

An amubulatory bundle of shitty business cliches, with that extra dash of extra-stupid. hatrack Jan 27 #51

This is Vichy News thought crime Jan 27 #52

CBS News was thrown upon the altar as a sacrifice to close a merger that the corporate headquarters wanted. cstanleytech Jan 28 #53

Dumb fk Bari figures out that she was brought in to take the fall. Hassler Jan 28 #56

Those Paramount+ cancellations rolling in? I did,hope others do to. Had that service for over a decade Bengus81 Jan 28 #58

Celebrating that CBS booked right-wing radio host and former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch for CBS Mornings muriel_volestrangler Jan 28 #59