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turbinetree

(27,149 posts)
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 08:33 AM Oct 2025

BARI'S MAGA BLOODBATH AT CBS: Mass Firings, More To Come

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 CBS’s 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...............
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BARI'S MAGA BLOODBATH AT CBS: Mass Firings, More To Come (Original Post) turbinetree Oct 2025 OP
Bari Weiss is an odious person. bronxiteforever Oct 2025 #1
I would not want to be on a first name basis w Weiss, unlike the OP's title. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2025 #23
Bari Weiss is making CBS The Conservative Broadcasting System dalton99a Oct 2025 #2
I don't see that attracting any new viewers. tanyev Oct 2025 #7
I don't think attracting new viewers... S/V Loner Oct 2025 #13
Bingo. littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 #14
Yes, I agree.. mountain grammy Oct 2025 #20
You are 100% correct. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2025 #25
It has been ongoing since the 1933 Wall Street Putsch or Business Plot LiberalArkie Oct 2025 #27
Yes, republicans PatSeg Oct 2025 #17
The Christian Bari Symbiosis, more like Montauk6 Oct 2025 #24
And it never gets mentioned that she has absolutely zero experience in anything related to network news or journalism. Jbraybarten Oct 2025 #3
She's a total disaster 31st Street Bridge Oct 2025 #5
Well, if there's any hope... NCDem47 Oct 2025 #9
Welcome to DU! KS Toronado Oct 2025 #36
thank you! Jbraybarten Oct 2025 #39
+1 dalton99a Oct 2025 #8
From everything I can find she didn't moniss Oct 2025 #15
Not even a buried lede... nt Shipwack Oct 2025 #29
I've written off CBS a year ago mdbl Oct 2025 #4
Maybe Weissenheimer should do the news herself, RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Oct 2025 #6
A good reason to stop watching CBS. Borogove Oct 2025 #10
Replace the 'C' with a 'P' Mr.Bee Oct 2025 #11
I gave up all mainstream media long ago Ritabert Oct 2025 #12
Except for local weather, I don't watch any of them any more. mwmisses4289 Oct 2025 #34
Totally agree. Ritabert Oct 2025 #37
Except for Colbert, we boycott CBS Grim Chieftain Oct 2025 #16
My CBS ration is down to NFL and March Madness fargone Oct 2025 #18
I don't even allow them that much... Moostache Oct 2025 #21
CBS News hasn't been proud for a good while. ananda Oct 2025 #19
CBS bromeando Oct 2025 #22
She could have been a hero. Now she's a zero. nt miyazaki Oct 2025 #26
Those mealy mouthed "journalists" who eagerly bashed Mr. Mustard 2023 Oct 2025 #28
Now they'll be replaced with fascist ass kissing bootlickers. Initech Oct 2025 #32
Fuck Bari Weiss! May she rot in the hottest of hells! Initech Oct 2025 #30
Post removed Post removed Oct 2025 #31
60 Minutes had a fluff piece on Jared Kushner last week. It was North Korea level propaganda. Initech Oct 2025 #33
The last one I watched was on older people and health gulliver Oct 2025 #38
Note to Bari: the Faux news audience you're trying to win over had written off broadcast media for over two decades now. Crowman2009 Oct 2025 #35
Besides football snowybirdie Oct 2025 #40
Scott Jennings as an anchor? greatauntoftriplets Oct 2025 #41

tanyev

(48,816 posts)
7. I don't see that attracting any new viewers.
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 09:03 AM
Oct 2025

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)
13. I don't think attracting new viewers...
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 09:37 AM
Oct 2025

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.

mountain grammy

(28,778 posts)
20. Yes, I agree..
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 10:28 AM
Oct 2025

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)
25. You are 100% correct.
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 10:55 AM
Oct 2025

It is becoming obvious that we are in a fascist takeover.
Very grateful that Rachel Maddow is freely speaking about it.

PatSeg

(52,452 posts)
17. Yes, republicans
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 10:07 AM
Oct 2025

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.

Jbraybarten

(204 posts)
3. And it never gets mentioned that she has absolutely zero experience in anything related to network news or journalism.
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 08:47 AM
Oct 2025

31st Street Bridge

(125 posts)
5. She's a total disaster
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 08:51 AM
Oct 2025

Nothing is worse than a fully blended mix of ego and incompetence.
Hard to believe she's a Jewish lesbian.

NCDem47

(3,351 posts)
9. Well, if there's any hope...
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 09:07 AM
Oct 2025

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.

moniss

(8,827 posts)
15. From everything I can find she didn't
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 09:54 AM
Oct 2025

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.

mdbl

(8,220 posts)
4. I've written off CBS a year ago
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 08:51 AM
Oct 2025

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)
6. Maybe Weissenheimer should do the news herself,
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 08:52 AM
Oct 2025

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.

Mr.Bee

(1,708 posts)
11. Replace the 'C' with a 'P'
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 09:33 AM
Oct 2025
The solution is simple; replace the 'C' in CBS to a 'P;
PBS.
There, so much better!

Ritabert

(2,103 posts)
12. I gave up all mainstream media long ago
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 09:35 AM
Oct 2025

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)
34. Except for local weather, I don't watch any of them any more.
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 11:17 AM
Oct 2025

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.

Grim Chieftain

(1,396 posts)
16. Except for Colbert, we boycott CBS
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 10:00 AM
Oct 2025

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.

Moostache

(11,085 posts)
21. I don't even allow them that much...
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 10:41 AM
Oct 2025

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.

Mr. Mustard 2023

(354 posts)
28. Those mealy mouthed "journalists" who eagerly bashed
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 10:55 AM
Oct 2025

President Biden and VP Harris f*cked around and found out. We warned them.

Initech

(107,861 posts)
32. Now they'll be replaced with fascist ass kissing bootlickers.
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 11:15 AM
Oct 2025

The way Trump and his fucking goons are destroying everything that ACTUALLY made America great is insane. They all need stiff prison sentences.

Response to turbinetree (Original post)

Initech

(107,861 posts)
33. 60 Minutes had a fluff piece on Jared Kushner last week. It was North Korea level propaganda.
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 11:17 AM
Oct 2025

Crowman2009

(3,438 posts)
35. Note to Bari: the Faux news audience you're trying to win over had written off broadcast media for over two decades now.
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 11:29 AM
Oct 2025

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)
40. Besides football
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 11:56 AM
Oct 2025

We only watch Sunday morning. Its a nice low key tv magazine on early Sunday morning. Jane Pauley still entertains. No politics for now.

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