8 h. ago Jets fans hopeful trip to London will cure the team's losing way

Jets fans hopeful trip to London will cure the team's losing way  CBS News

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8 h. ago Jets fans hopeful trip to London will cure the team's losing ways

Jets fans hopeful trip to London will cure the team's losing ways  CBS News

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11 h. ago Bari Weiss goes full Elon Musk, demands CBS News staffers tell her ‘how you spend your working hours’

‘We’re all being DOGE’d,’ a CBS News journalist told The Independent. ‘And she’s also looking out to see who will kiss up to her.’

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38 h. ago Traffic to Bari Weiss’ The Free Press soared in the month before she was named CBS News editor

Besides its 44 percent bump last month compared to September 2024, the Weiss-founded site was up 134 percent compared to the same month in 2023.

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68 h. ago Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its rootsIf you’re old enough to have admired CBS in its heyday, watching its decline has been painful.Decades ago, it was dubbed the Tiffany Network – home of the great journalist Walter Cronkite (“the most trusted man in America”), and innovator of the top-flight magazine program, 60 Minutes. Continue reading...

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69 h. ago Katie Porter nearly storms out of CBS interview: ‘I don’t want all this on camera’

Former congresswoman running to replace term-limited Gavin Newsom angered by question about how she plans to win over Golden State’s Donald Trump voters

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3 d. ago ‘Let’s do the f***ing news’: New top editor Bari Weiss causes ‘eye rolls’ during CBS News editorial call

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple CBS News staffers told The Independent that Bari Weiss’ ‘cringey’ comments on the editorial call literally caused eyes to roll.

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4 d. ago Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward

US media giants have bowed before Maga after Trump’s many lawsuits and the Jimmy Kimmel firestormParamount Skydance, the newly merged conglomerate which owns CBS News, has hired the journalist Bari Weiss as the network’s editor-in-chief – and acquired the Free Press, the publication Weiss co-founded in 2021 as a challenger to the establishment media, for a reported $150m.Weiss has made her career as a center-right critic of progressivism, and the Free Press is a contrarian, loosely conservative and ardently Zionist publication that views itself as a speaker of hard truths and protector of free discourse. Tellingly, Weiss will answer directly to Paramount’s chief executive, David Ellison, rather than to the president of CBS News, or the head of CBS. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Bari Weiss becomes CBS News chief as Paramount buys her start

Acquisition of The Free Press is first major deal since David Ellison’s Skydance took control of media group

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5 d. ago Cat Stevens shuts down interviewer over his past remarks on Salman Rushdie’s ‘effigy burning’

Stevens writes about Rushdie in his new memoir, ‘Cat On The Road To Findout’

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7 d. ago ‘It’s not a good place right now’: CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

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7 d. ago ‘Polarizing’ journalist Bari Weiss to become CBS News editor

Opponents say Weiss’s ‘anti-woke’, pro-Israel stance will be like ‘dropping a grenade’ in the newsroom

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7 d. ago White House halts $2.1bn of Chicago transport funding; Senate to hold vote as shutdown enters third day – US politics live

Trump aide Russ Vought said hold would affect work to extend and modernize city’s transit lines amid little hope Senate can agree a way out of shutdownThe Eisenhower Presidential Library’s director has exited his position after advocating against giving a sword from the collection to King Charles as a gift during Donald Trump’s recent state visit, according to US media reports on Thursday.Todd Arrington left his post on Monday after being told to “resign or be fired”, he told CBS News, which did not specify who had relayed the message to the historian. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Iconic music studio used by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to reopen in London

Iconic music studio used by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to reopen in London  CBS News

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8 d. ago Large fire breaks out at el Segundo refinery in Los Angeles – reports

Emergency services attending scenes after receiving multiple reports of an explosion, according to US mediaA large fire has broken out at Chevron’s El Segundo refinery in Los Angeles county in California, according to US media reports.The blaze began on Thursday night, after emergency services received reports of an explosion at the site, according to CBS news. The cause is unclear. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago US archivist ousted after refusing to let Trump give Eisenhower’s sword to King Charles – reports

The Trump administration ultimately gave the King a replica sword on the president’s recent state visitThe Eisenhower Presidential Library’s director has exited his position after advocating against giving a sword from the collection to King Charles as a gift during Donald Trump’s recent state visit, according to US media reports on Thursday.Todd Arrington left his post on Monday after being told to “resign or be fired”, he told CBS News, which did not specify who had relayed the message to the historian. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Megyn Kelly breaks silence after rumors that she ‘screen tested’ at CBS News for role at network

‘Megyn Kelly was at CBS News the other day. You heard it here, you’re not going to hear it anyplace else,’ veteran journalist Bernard Goldberg claimed this week.

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9 d. ago Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert on one another’s shows to ‘drive Trump nuts’

Kimmel returned to TV after his show’s suspension in the wake of comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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2 w. ago The TikTok deal puts even more media in the hands of the super

Trump is clearing the way for US investors to control a wildly popular platform where millions get their newsIn 2020, only a tiny fraction of Americans got news from TikTok. These days, that number has soared to one in five.For young adults, those figures are much higher, with almost half of adults under 30 getting news there, according to the Pew Research Center.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

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2 w. ago London Mayor Sadiq Khan rejects Trump's "bigoted" claims about sharia law in England's capital

London Mayor Sadiq Khan rejects Trump's "bigoted" claims about sharia law in England's capital  CBS News

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