{"id":1729,"date":"2026-01-28T02:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:42:20","slug":"bari-weisss-hands-on-meeting-apparently-involves-stepping-in-every-cow-flap-in-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/bari-weisss-hands-on-meeting-apparently-involves-stepping-in-every-cow-flap-in-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Bari Weiss’s “Hands-On Meeting” Apparently Involves Stepping in Every Cow Flap in the Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Under Bari Weiss, the “C” in CBS News stands for Cringe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Daily Beast’s article<\/a> on this train wreck is hilarious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is this woman serious? Here is my favourite quote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weiss compared the nearly 100-year-old network to that of a start-up under her leadership, calling CBS News \u201cthe best-capitalized media startup in the world,\u201d while warning there would be further changes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut startups aren\u2019t for everyone. They\u2019re places that move at a rapid speed. They experiment. They try new things. They sometimes create noise and, yes, bad press,\u201d she said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start-up? Uh, no. CBS News is an institution. <\/em>Under no circumstances is this a “start-up”. You cannot erase the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And memo to Bari Weiss: Ninety percent of start-ups fail<\/em><\/strong>. CBS News has been operating for nearly a century: through the Blitz, Vietnam, Watergate, and the digital revolution. Calling it a “start-up” isn’t just historically illiterate; it’s the business equivalent of calling the U.S. Constitution a rough draft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can’t erase the likes of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley, Don Hewitt, Marvin Kalb, Harry Reasoner, and Morley Safer. A more comprehensive list is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also announced CBS will now “put huge emphasis on scoops.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scoops? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

60 Minutes, which Don Hewitt created in 1968, invented the modern investigative newsmagazine format. Mike Wallace was ambush-interviewing fraudsters before Weiss was born. This isn’t innovation; it’s someone discovering the wheel and claiming credit for transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By the way, Mike Wallace secured an interview with Ayatollah Khomeini during the Iran hostage crisis. But sure, tell us more about “scoops,” Bari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling CBS a “start-up” isn’t just ignorant: it’s strategic. It erases institutional memory, dismisses existing expertise, and flatters the newcomer as a founder rather than a steward. Weiss isn’t building something new; she’s inheriting a house and claiming she poured the foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse, under her so-called leadership, CBS Evening News ratings have dropped roughly 20 percent. For someone who lectures about “producing a product people want,” the market is sending a clear reply: no thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Rupert Murdoch decided to launch Fox News, he hired Roger Ailes, a man with 34 years of television experience, two Emmy Awards, and a track record running cable networks. Say what you will about Ailes, but he had genuine credentials. Weiss has a Substack. Murdoch built a machine; Paramount bought a blogger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither Weiss nor the Ellisons have the gravitas to salvage their sinking ship. They think they can just waltz in, haughtily throw a nuclear bomb, grab some dutiful yes-men, spew some partisan propaganda, and the young audiences are going to flock to their ruins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research appendix compiled with Perplexity Max; independently verified.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under Bari Weiss, the “C” in CBS News stands for Cringe. The Daily Beast’s article on this train wreck is hilarious. Is this woman serious? Here is my favourite quote: Weiss compared the nearly 100-year-old network to that of a start-up under her leadership, calling CBS News \u201cthe best-capitalized media startup in the world,\u201d while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[256,196,193,194,91,197,255,261,259,263,231,262,258,264,214,26,257,210,260],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandra-kitty","tag-annabella-rosciglione","tag-bari-weiss","tag-cbs","tag-cbs-news","tag-daily-beast","tag-david-ellison","tag-don-hewitt","tag-ed-bradley","tag-edward-e-murrow","tag-harry-reasoner","tag-larry-ellison","tag-marvin-kalb","tag-mike-wallace","tag-morley-safer","tag-paramount","tag-propaganda","tag-roger-ailes","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-walter-cronkite"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}