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And now, she's trying to hire Scott Jennings as the evening news anchor? Sure, that'll build credibility!
By Susie Madrak October 30, 2025
Let's watch this slow-motion horror as Bari Weiss continues the MAGAfication of the once-proud CBS News! Via the Daily Beast:
The new boss of CBS News, anti-woke opinion journalist Bari Weiss, axed a series of its shows Wednesday and fired dozens of staff.
Weiss, who was named editor-in-chief of the network when CBSs new owner David Ellison bought her Free Press website, told staff it was an enormously difficult day. The wider Paramount company was warned by Ellison to expect widespread firings.
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/10/baris-maga-bloodbath-cbs-mass-firings-more
Only three shows that I watch on CBS now .......................Lets Make a Deal................Stephen Colbert ...........CBS Sports and will throw them out once Colbert is gone..............screw the advertisers...............they support traitors...............
bronxiteforever
(11,188 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)dalton99a
(92,701 posts)tanyev
(48,816 posts)Moderate and liberal viewers will go elsewhere, and the viewers she's looking for will stay loyal to FOX, OANN or whatever else they have made their home.
S/V Loner
(9,501 posts)is what this is all about. I think this is all about controlling the flow of information to help pave the way for the Techno-authoritarian takeover of the Government which is well on its way.
littlemissmartypants
(32,505 posts)mountain grammy
(28,778 posts)Seems strange for a gay, Jewish woman to be leading the charge. Guess she's not a student of history.
I predict she will eventually be replaced by a white, male, Christian.. preferably a pedophile..
dixiegrrrrl
(60,147 posts)It is becoming obvious that we are in a fascist takeover.
Very grateful that Rachel Maddow is freely speaking about it.
LiberalArkie
(19,444 posts)It never stopped.
PatSeg
(52,452 posts)have lots of right-wing radio and television. They certainly don't need another, plus they'll probably never trust CBS because it is seen as mainstream and on the liberal side.
Montauk6
(9,321 posts)Jbraybarten
(204 posts)31st Street Bridge
(125 posts)Nothing is worse than a fully blended mix of ego and incompetence.
Hard to believe she's a Jewish lesbian.
NCDem47
(3,351 posts)She'll flame out. CBS News has been in the crapper for decades now (save for 60 Minutes). They've brought so many in to turn it around and they've failed. I guess this Hail Mary to reshape into a FOX News or government propganda is what the owners want to do at the moment. MAGAs are so locked in on RW outlets, hard to imagine they'll start tuning in to CBS for morning and nightly news. Look for CBS News streaming platforms and owned and operated affiliates to start pushing dreck. I'm sure there will be cross-polination on live events and sports too. Somhow worm into entertainment programming.
KS Toronado
(23,309 posts)
Jbraybarten
(204 posts)moniss
(8,827 posts)even take Communications in college. Her BA is in history. No journalism classes, likely nothing in philosophy. Doesn't appear to be well rounded academically. A very telling point about people like this is their claim to fame in their earlier careers lists "culture" as their main area of endeavor. If one is working in the subject we would expect a substantial academic background in Sociology/Anthropology etc. but as usual we don't see it here.
As with so many today such as the Joe Rogan type etc. they have no actual background academically in what they shoot their mouth off about. When I see that word "culture" as the areas on which an author of articles, blogs or host of podcasts is focusing I cringe because it means nothing more than some drunk on a bar stool at the local tavern. Maybe even less.
Shipwack
(3,021 posts)mdbl
(8,220 posts)Don't even turn it on anymore. I might watch a 60 minute reruns on youtube once in a while. I wonder how long they'll let those stay up.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,951 posts)and show us radical leftists how the Evening news should be imparted with proper right-wing GOPaganda. If she's too busy, maybe she could get Benjamin Netanyahu to fill in, if he's met his death quota for the week.
Borogove
(567 posts)Mr.Bee
(1,708 posts)PBS. There, so much better!
Ritabert
(2,103 posts)The only thing I watched on CBS was "Jeopardy" and I can get that elsewhere. The rest of their lineup stinks
mwmisses4289
(3,477 posts)Stopped watching when the news started becoming more like entertainment tonight: sound bites with little if any follow up, commercial breaks that were longer than the news bites, and expanded sports that lasted longer than the rest (not sports fan, so having a sports segment that was 10-15 minutes long was a sign of the local news going downhill fast).
Worse, most of the shows were those idiotic, scripted, badly edited "reality" shows.
Not sure i will go back. I prefer to make handcrafted cards or read anyway.
Ritabert
(2,103 posts)Grim Chieftain
(1,396 posts)Last edited Thu Oct 30, 2025, 10:32 AM - Edit history (1)
CBS and CNN are Faux News lite and not allowed in this house.
Edit to add: Well, we do allow sports. Some things are sacred.
fargone
(568 posts)Moostache
(11,085 posts)I stream the NFL and have given up on March Madness as well.
We collectively need to start planning for communications and capabilities once they (the powers that behind P2025 and the current abomination) decide to cut off the internet as well.
We are going to need a local-based network that can communicate to others either clandestinely in a regulated and controlled internet or simply work with older technologies to maintain communication capabilities. It is coming. Doubting it won't make it not happen.
ananda
(34,565 posts)Not since they fired Dan Rather.
Period.
bromeando
(166 posts)I know longer watch this channel.
miyazaki
(2,609 posts)Mr. Mustard 2023
(354 posts)President Biden and VP Harris f*cked around and found out. We warned them.
Initech
(107,861 posts)The way Trump and his fucking goons are destroying everything that ACTUALLY made America great is insane. They all need stiff prison sentences.
Initech
(107,861 posts)And fuck MAGA too!
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Initech
(107,861 posts)gulliver
(13,789 posts)It was excellent.
Crowman2009
(3,438 posts)They're in their own bubble and they'll never leave. No matter how much you rebrand into some horrible MAGA shite, they'll still think CBS is liberal media in league with Satan. So enjoy your upcoming failure you Likud bootlicker!
snowybirdie
(6,600 posts)We only watch Sunday morning. Its a nice low key tv magazine on early Sunday morning. Jane Pauley still entertains. No politics for now.