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(60,615 posts) Tue Jan 27, 2026, 05:56 PM Tuesday

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 Tuesday OP

She's hastening its demise. RandySF Tuesday #1

CBS is already "toast" Sessuch Tuesday #23

She has no fucking clue. NewHendoLib Tuesday #2

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

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

love it samsingh Tuesday #27

"The Story" Kid Berwyn Tuesday #5

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

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

"widen the aperture" Nasruddin Tuesday #7

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

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

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

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

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

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

Her message is RW gibberish and ego. highplainsdem Tuesday #41

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

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

Why watch Fox-Lite? Mz Pip Tuesday #13

+1. dalton99a Tuesday #14

+2. byronius Tuesday #34

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

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

She is trying to turn CBS into Fox Bluestocking Tuesday #16

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

How DARE she even speak his name??? niyad Tuesday #18

The woman is a Keepthesoulalive Tuesday #19

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

Well, CBS DownriverDem Tuesday #20

Wasn't haryn Tuesday #21

See B S News MW67 Tuesday #22

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

Extra dark, please. nt eppur_se_muova Tuesday #25

Stupid person UpInArms Tuesday #26

News without truth and integrity has no future bucolic_frolic Tuesday #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 Tuesday #29

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

Bari(barely) damifino10 Tuesday #31

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

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

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

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

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

Bari has been an outstanding Toastess Zambero Tuesday #39

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

SHE is "the current path" Skittles Tuesday #42

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

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

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

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

No one wants Fox lite. Old Crank Tuesday #48

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

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

This is Vichy News thought crime Tuesday #52

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

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

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

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