Bari Weiss appointed head of CBS news

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Megyn Kelly talked briefly about Bari Weiss heading up CBS news. She’s not optimistic that Bari will be able to affect that operation. She said exactly what I am feeling about it even though I don’t have the insider view into network news that Megyn has, and that is that it’s a huge intractable beast that cannot be changed from top down Management.

Megyn likened CBS News to a giant freighter on the ocean, heading towards icebergs, and they install Bari at the wheel as though she can actually steer it away from the big threats.

I think a better fit for Bari would’ve been NPR news division. That is small enough that I influentialI can see her making some real changes there while being influential enough to get her attention and interest.

The more I think about it, more I think it’s a mismatch and I wonder if CBS new ownership has thrown Bari into this mess as a temporary chaos agent where she will not last long. Ya gotta start the chaos if you are really going to shake up deeply entrenched employees and culture.

I think you may be right. This is the organization that mobilized its “race and culture unit” against a reporter who had the temerity to question Ta-Nehisi Coates. This is the organization that edited a Kamala Harris interview to make her appear coherent. There’s a lot of ideological inertia there to overcome.

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I think you may be right. This is the organization that mobilized its “race and culture unit” against a reporter who had the temerity to question Ta-Nehisi Coates. This is the organization that edited a Kamala Harris interview to make her appear coherent. There’s a lot of ideological inertia there to overcome.

I remember Dan Rather’s Memogate fiasco where he claimed to have documents proving GW Bush’s dishonesty with military service. I distinctly remember that incident because that was the first time it sunk in for me the power of the Internet, where thousands of little busy bees do their “investigative reporting.” And while 99% of it is noise and misinformation, the 1% percent that’s true is put out there. I remember going down the rabbit hole of experts on old typewriters who argued that memo could not be what it was represented to be because typewriters didn’t produce those characters in the year it was claimed to originate.

Someone besides Dan Rather took the fall for that though. As Brightstar Cruise Line from
Television’s Succession would say, “NRPI” No Real People Involved to be hurt,just flunkies.

As for the more recent editing of Kamila’s interview, I followed Megyn Kelly’s analysis of it and did not come to the same agreement she came to. necessarily. I am neutral on it and think the opposition to CBS didn’t prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt,