Weiss is embroiled in her first major controversy as editor in chief as her handpicked anchor takes evening news show
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aking charge of CBS News in early October with no television industry experience, and already facing both deep skepticism from many network employees and a faltering business model, Bari Weiss began with a lot working against her.
Still, her three months as editor in chief have been more chaotic than even many of her critics expected. “There is blood in the water,” said one CBS News journalist, who, like the others quoted in this story, was not authorized by the network to comment.
In recent days, a group of former CBS News journalists drafted a letter to David Ellison, the man who bought Weiss’s company, the Free Press, and put her atop the network, expressing deep reservations about her recent decision to pull a segment originally scheduled to air on the 21 December episode of 60 Minutes, creating perhaps the first real crisis of her tenure.
