17 h. ago Bari Weiss’s security detail is costing CBS $10,000 per day, according to report

Weiss took over CBS News last month after its parent company bought her Substack, The Free Press, for $150 million

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18 h. ago Trump gushes over Bari Weiss and boasts about ‘60 Minutes’ payoff — but TV viewers didn’t see that

‘Why would you subject yourself to this type of criticism? Just put it in, because it’s the first thing that I was looking for,’ one CBS News insider said of the network’s decision to omit Trump’s settlement boast from the on-air broadcast

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21 h. ago CBS News heavily edits Trump 60 Minutes interview, cutting boast network ‘paid me a lotta money’

Trump said Paramount’s sale to David and Larry Ellison was ‘greatest thing that’s happened in a long time’ for free pressThe CBS News program 60 Minutes heavily edited down an interview with Donald Trump that aired on Sunday night, his first sit-down with the show in five years.Trump sat down with correspondent Norah O’Donnell for 90 minutes, but only about 28 minutes were broadcast. A full transcript of the interview was later published, along with a 73-minute-long extended version online. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Bari Weiss has added another Fox News star to her list of potential ‘CBS Evening News’ anchors

When asked about Bari Weiss considering Dana Perino to lead CBS Evening News, one senior CBS News staffer responded to The Independent with a face-palm emoji.

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4 d. ago Gayle King expected to depart ‘CBS Mornings’ in latest restructure under new leader Bari Weiss: report

King, who has fronted the broadcaster’s morning show for over a decade, is expected to step down from her anchor role on next year

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4 d. ago The Guardian view on Trump and China: stepping back from the brink, but not solving problems | Editorial

Though the US president’s meeting with Xi Jinping appears to have staved off a global trade war, this is far from a win for WashingtonThe diverging verdicts offered by the Chinese and American leaders after their talks in South Korea on Thursday reflected more than the chasms between their personal styles and political cultures. Donald Trump gushed about an “amazing” meeting, scoring it 12 out of 10; Xi Jinping reportedly noted that a consensus had been reached, with the two sides needing to finalise follow-up steps rapidly.Mr Trump’s usual trade approach – shout loudly and wave a big stick – faltered when Beijing raised its own bludgeon. No tribute of gold crowns or Nobel nomination pledges were on offer from Mr Xi. The US president blinked first – but, predictably, attempted to repackage the underwhelming result as a great success. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago So what does Bret Baier have to say about those CBS News and Bari Weiss reports?

Saying he was ‘flattered’ by all of the media attention the speculation has received, Bret Baier added that ‘we’ll see what happens at the end’ of his Fox News contract.

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1 week ago Bari Weiss is eyeing Fox News star Bret Baier and CNN’s Anderson Cooper for ‘CBS Evening News’ anchor chair

Sources also told The Independent that Weiss has also expressed interest in bringing Andercon Cooper over from CNN to lead the nightly news program.

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2 w. ago Bari Weiss, who published CBS leaks at The Free Press, now wants to root out leakers after taking over network

One CBS News staffer told The Independent that it was ‘insanely ironic’ that Weiss, the network’s new editor-in-chief, was trying to out leakers

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2 w. ago When my kids wrote a song using AI, all I could think was: you missed the fun part | Myke Bartlett

The arrival of AI is a chance to remind kids that the joy of creativity is not in what you made, but in the process of making itSomewhere in the middle of the last school holidays, as I was attempting to work from home, the kids came bounding down the stairs armed with a new song they had written. The lyrics were nonsensical (as you’d expect from a pair of preteens), but there was a surprising crispness to the rhyming structure.“We got ChatGPT to write it,” the eldest said. This was neither a confession nor a boast. Every 12-year-old knows the AI shortcut. Two minutes earlier, they didn’t have a song. Now they had something ready to perform. Admittedly the improvised melody could best be described as “indeterminate”, but the right prompt could have fixed that. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago CBS News head of standards quits just a week after Bari Weiss is named editor

During an editorial call Thursday morning, Claudia Milne announced she was leaving as the head of standards at CBS News. She did not give a reason for her departure.

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2 w. ago Fox News host claims there’s an ‘antisemitic thread’ behind backlash over CBS News hiring Bari Weiss

Fox News’ Emily Compagno referenced an article from The Independent while suggesting that antisemitism could be behind some of the criticism of Bari Weiss

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3 w. ago John Oliver skewers Paramount for hiring ‘irresponsible’ Bari Weiss to run CBS News

‘It is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading,” John Oliver declared on Sunday night.

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3 w. ago Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making | David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher

A half-century ago, CBS’s own president was boasting of his support for an antidemocratic political project. Our new book uses never-before-reported documents to tell the story of a scheme to undermine accountability journalismIf you only just started paying attention to the inner workings of the media industry, you might think America’s information environment transformed overnight.In the past few months, a president extracted settlements from media giants as his apparatchiks vowed state retribution against his opponents – all as they defunded public media at a time when the president’s biggest boosters own the algorithms that decide what information is amplified and suppressed. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Donald Trump moans about Putin, gushes over 'cute' Barron and jokes about being shot in video with grandchild Kai

Donald Trump turned from President to doting grandfather in a new video filmed by his teenage granddaughter Kai, where they played a round of golf together.

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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. ago Jesse Watters admits that Trump is a ‘Fox News producer’ during segment on Antifa roundtable

‘Thank you, Donald Trump,’ Jesse Watters gushed Wednesday following the president’s roundtable that featured a coterie of MAGA influencers.

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3 w. ago China sends horror WW3 threat of nuclear strike hitting in 20 minutes

Victor Gao, Vice President of the Centre for China and Globalisation, warned of "devastating consequences" should China come under attack and boasted of a long-range missile that can hit in minutes

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3 w. 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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