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As Weiss navigates her first month at CBS News, she’s reportedly considered various household names to help her fulfill her mission of “building the most trusted news organization of the 21st Century” while also generating buzz for a network whose programming has faced a precipitous ratings decline and drawn political scrutiny.
The New York Times released a report on Sunday about an alleged meeting between CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss and the staff behind CBS’ “60 Minutes."
Paramount has acquired The Free Press for $150 million and named her editor in chief of CBS News. In the resignation letter announcing her departure from the Grey Lady in July 2020, the opinion journalist Bari Weiss memorably lamented that "Twitter is not on the masthead of the New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor."
Weiss’ inexperience, her embrace of the right-wing assault on the media, and her eagerness to boost her political opinions over her network’s reporting are all reasons to worry about her tenure at CBS News. But there’s something else: artificial intelligence.
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