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‘Impossible to take at face value’: CBS’s boss shredded for blocking ’60 Minutes’ story
2+ hour, 2+ min ago (518+ words) The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait raked newly-installed CBS boss Bari Weiss over the coals for her controversial move to block the release of a "60 Minutes" report on horrific conditions at the foreign megaprison where President Donald Trump is shipping hundreds of…...
Bari Weiss defends held ‘60 Minutes’ story in email to CBS News staff
6+ hour, 30+ min ago (615+ words) Bari Weiss explained her decision to hold a "60 Minutes" segment earlier this week in an email to CBS News staff Wednesday, saying she is working to win back the trust of American viewers. The postponed segment was set to cover…...
Bari Weiss defends held “60 Minutes” story in email to CBS News staff
7+ hour, 3+ min ago (611+ words) Bari Weiss explained her decision to hold a "60 Minutes" segment earlier this week in an email to CBS News staff Wednesday, saying she is working to win back the trust of American viewers. The postponed segment was set to cover…...
Bari Weiss Defends Pulling ‘60 Minutes’ Story as a Step Towards ‘Restoring the Integrity of the News’
7+ hour, 37+ min ago (148+ words) Bari Weiss once again defended pulling Sunday's "60 Minutes" story on CECOT, this time in an internal Christmas Eve memo with fellow CBS News leadership. Signed by Tom Cibrowski, Charles Forelle, Adam Rubenstein and editor-in-chief Weiss, their message explained the editorial…...
CBS Boss Sends Lecturing Christmas Eve Memo Over ‘60 Minutes’ Chaos
10+ hour, 11+ min ago (533+ words) The newly installed MAGA-curious head of CBS News is continuing to belabor her staff over her last-minute decision to axe a 60 Minutes segment critical of the Trump administration. In a memo sent to CBS staff and signed by Bari Weiss,…...
Phyllis Lee Levin, Times Fashion Reporter and Biographer, Dies at 104
11+ hour, 4+ min ago (1130+ words) Phyllis Lee Levin had been a fashion reporter at The New York Times for several years in 1960 when she detoured from her beat by writing a provocative essay for the newspaper about the frustrations of college-educated women torn between what…...
Read Bari Weiss’ new memo that defends pulling a ’60 Minutes’ segment and says Americans lack trust in the press
13+ hour, 24+ min ago (292+ words) CBS News head Bari Weiss sent a Christmas memo to staff on Wednesday defending her decision to pull a "60 Minutes" segment on the Trump administration's use of El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. In the memo, signed by Weiss and other…...
Inside Rebecca Kutler’s Ambitious MS NOW Experiment
13+ hour, 41+ min ago (1364+ words) I came into MSNBC as a very green reporter in 2015," Soboroff acknowledged to TheWrap, and without much experience at all, and I think that that's why I connected with the audience on big election nights or other live events. Because…...
Stop Defending Bari Weiss
14+ hour, 20+ min ago (238+ words) But then AOC complains that her friends at Fox News aren't moving fast enough, and the network is still running critical coverage of her. Days later, Miller kills a long-scheduled report showing how AOC may have flouted the Constitution in…...
Despite anti-media rhetoric, the government is still reading the news
17+ hour, 59+ min ago (653+ words) Agencies across the Trump administration have taken out subscriptions in recent months to news organizations that officials had very publicly cut off this year, reversing an earlier decision to cancel them that Elon Musk, senior White House aides and President…...