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The liberal media consists of a group of media journalists who believe their job is to wage war on any media owner or executive who might tip the media even remotely toward the center. They’re happy to find their allies in the newsroom and allow them anonymity to trash anyone who doesn’t think their job is to impeach and imprison the president Donald Trump and described everyone who worked for him as a Gestapo.
cbs news Under new boss David Ellison and his handpicked editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, Weiss was a hot topic again this week when Weiss held an all-staff meeting to set the record straight with all the anonymous sources who had been slandering her behind her back. A headline in The Daily Beast captured their tendencies: “Curious CBS boss dares defiant employee to resign amid nervous staff.” A headline on new evening news host Tony Dokoupil labeled him “Code MAGA.”
Critics of the new regime like to predict impending doom. The Ringer described Weiss’s CBS as “a Wile Coyote-style pancake leaning against the side of a mountain.” Variety’s CBS sources say the network is on the verge of a “death spiral” that is “difficult to reverse.” CBS News has been in third place for decades and its audience continues to decline, but simply increasing viewpoint diversity is “death spiral” material.
Weiss has been outspoken about the declining appeal of traditional media. “We’re not producing enough to meet people’s needs,” she said. She sounds a lot like other network heads in realizing that most young Americans don’t watch TV news or listen to traditional radio. They have to get them in other formats. It is an ironclad fact that the audience is “aging”.
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Bari Weiss, handpicked by CEO David Ellison, was officially named editor-in-chief of CBS News in October after her outlet, The Free Press, was acquired by Paramount. (Michelle Crow/CBS News via Getty Images)
But liberal hardliners can’t abide attempts to find new audiences by incorporating dissenting opinions or “journalistic judgments” that don’t strongly disagree with Trump. NPR reporter David Folkenflik cited eight anonymous complainants at CBS. Some were outraged that “CBS Nightly News” blew past the fifth anniversary of January 6 in less than a minute, but ended the show with a light-hearted segment on Secretary of State memes. Marco Rubio. Insiders were offended by Docupil’s conclusion, “Marco Rubio, we salute you.”
One year ago, on January 12, 2025, CBS reporter Martha Teichner celebrated then-President taking office Joe BidenSecretary of State Antony Blinken, titled “World Figure.” Teichner, a classmate of Hillary Clinton’s at Wellesley, gushed about Blinken “photobombing” a photo of a female foreign minister at a NATO meeting and praised Blinken as a square. He “promoted musical diplomacy by performing the Muddy Waters blues standard ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’ while wearing a suit and tie.” Tributes to Democrats were the norm.
Journalists who promote bias are also unhappy with Washington Post CEO Will Lewis, who is expected to announce massive layoffs any day now, with cuts expected of sports and foreign coverage that won’t be profitable. It’s probably the wrong strategy to reduce the breadth of the newspaper, but it’s interesting to see reporters blaming the owners and the “business side.”
Former Post reporter Ashley Parker wrote on Twitter: “I don’t see how firing a bunch of talented, hard-working reporters fundamentally solves the publisher’s and business problems. The Post deserves better.” An anonymous Post reporter claimed: “The newsroom is being punished for the sheer incompetence of its owner and publisher.”
When a reporter accuses a self-made billionaire of incompetence, it’s best for the reporter to remain anonymous. All of this makes journalists look like a bunch of entitled brats. Don’t blame “talented journalists” when people stop buying newspapers and lose $100 million a year, it’s a “business problem”.
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“A lot of people who have dedicated their careers to the Post are worried that an important American institution is being dismantled,” former Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler told Fox News Digital. “But will it be dismantled through layoffs, or by appearing more friendly to Trump?”
The same internal panic is happening on the Public Broadcasting Network Trump and Republicans cancel their taxpayer funds. PBS just canceled “PBS News Weekend” and created two weekend shows that don’t require any weekend staff.
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But liberal hardliners can’t abide attempts to find new audiences by incorporating dissenting opinions or “journalistic judgments” that don’t strongly disagree with Trump.
NPR published a long and scathing article written by 19 journalists about how Trump is “comprehensively expanding executive power while eroding democratic norms.” Under a promotional image of Trump pulling an electrical plug from a wall, NPR charged that “Trump is targeting free speech in an attempt to control and change the message,” including defunding public media.
These media activists equate their own offensive journalism with “democratic norms,” as if “democracy” is defined by disparaging Republicans and helping Democrats win as many elections as possible. No one should challenge their ideological “control” of information, otherwise they are a bunch of tyrants.
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