Bari Weiss is the worst. I hope she crashes and burns in a truly spectacular way. I don't see people like Anderson Cooper putting up with her, she'll probably end up with unqualified yahoos just like at CBS.
Thanks Cathy. I stopped watching CBS and CNN a long time ago. The corporate owned legacy media has completely failed our country. Even before Trump, their reporting and analysis was extremely shallow, especially on international news. And for institutions with a so-called "liberal bias", they sure helped to normalize Trump's authoritarian and corrupt behavior.
"Under other circumstances, a more centrist or even moderately right-of-center editor-in-chief of the kind Weiss positions herself to be..."
25 years ago I concluded that the "left-right" scale is no longer a reasonable metric, if it ever was to begin with. What is called "the far right" is really rabid, anti-Republic AUTHORITARIANISM. Not left or right, but the "far bottom" of this 2-dimentional scale, which, while still not perfect, is much more descriptive:
Full disclosure: The site advocates the "top" (Libertarian) but that's not necessary. I come out slightly to the right and above center (though I wish the quiz had more questions) but still find the scale more accurate than "left-right." And you can't get more anti-Trump than me; OK, maybe Adam Kinzinger is, and he's to the "right" of me on most issues. The problem is that authoritarians, long before MAGA, hijacked the language, and even their fiercest critics obediently comply. Specifically, those in the MAGA cult - and it is indeed a literal cult - call themselves "conservatives," or even "center-right" in Weiss' case. And anyone who dares to criticize them, however constructively, is called "radical left." It's long overdue to take back the language - and the country!
I'll be curious to see what kind of coverage, if any, we will see on 60 Minutes if Trump shivs Bibi like he appears intent on doing.
I've seen enough evidence, myself, though. Weiss is where she is because she will run cover for the most corrupt administration in the country's history, and do it at one of the biggest news networks in the country.
>10 years ago I'd often toggle between CNN & FOX. Both had unnecessary "spin" and prioritized stories differently, but between them I'd get an accurate picture of events. But as the MAGA cult self-assembled around a spoiled brat celebrity FOX became nothing but a propaganda outlet for the cult, and its mission to replace the Republic with an authoritarian dictatorship. Ironically that forced CNN to be less about news and more about "putting out fires." Which authoritarians conveniently call "left wing bias."
Bari Weiss is the worst. I hope she crashes and burns in a truly spectacular way. I don't see people like Anderson Cooper putting up with her, she'll probably end up with unqualified yahoos just like at CBS.
I bet she "reassigns" Anderson Cooper in the first 6 weeks of her CNN role.
Right? He clearly doesn't like her. I wish all these displaced jounalists could figure out how to start a new indie alternative news network.
Thanks Cathy. I stopped watching CBS and CNN a long time ago. The corporate owned legacy media has completely failed our country. Even before Trump, their reporting and analysis was extremely shallow, especially on international news. And for institutions with a so-called "liberal bias", they sure helped to normalize Trump's authoritarian and corrupt behavior.
"Under other circumstances, a more centrist or even moderately right-of-center editor-in-chief of the kind Weiss positions herself to be..."
25 years ago I concluded that the "left-right" scale is no longer a reasonable metric, if it ever was to begin with. What is called "the far right" is really rabid, anti-Republic AUTHORITARIANISM. Not left or right, but the "far bottom" of this 2-dimentional scale, which, while still not perfect, is much more descriptive:
https://www.theadvocates.org/
Full disclosure: The site advocates the "top" (Libertarian) but that's not necessary. I come out slightly to the right and above center (though I wish the quiz had more questions) but still find the scale more accurate than "left-right." And you can't get more anti-Trump than me; OK, maybe Adam Kinzinger is, and he's to the "right" of me on most issues. The problem is that authoritarians, long before MAGA, hijacked the language, and even their fiercest critics obediently comply. Specifically, those in the MAGA cult - and it is indeed a literal cult - call themselves "conservatives," or even "center-right" in Weiss' case. And anyone who dares to criticize them, however constructively, is called "radical left." It's long overdue to take back the language - and the country!
I'll be curious to see what kind of coverage, if any, we will see on 60 Minutes if Trump shivs Bibi like he appears intent on doing.
I've seen enough evidence, myself, though. Weiss is where she is because she will run cover for the most corrupt administration in the country's history, and do it at one of the biggest news networks in the country.
I think calling CNN the biggest name in cable news is just wrong. Fox News has a much larger audience and is the new main stream media.
>10 years ago I'd often toggle between CNN & FOX. Both had unnecessary "spin" and prioritized stories differently, but between them I'd get an accurate picture of events. But as the MAGA cult self-assembled around a spoiled brat celebrity FOX became nothing but a propaganda outlet for the cult, and its mission to replace the Republic with an authoritarian dictatorship. Ironically that forced CNN to be less about news and more about "putting out fires." Which authoritarians conveniently call "left wing bias."