Unfit to Print: A TOUCH OF BIAS
Bari Weiss waltzed into CBS News and ripped the veil off of the media’s left-wing bias by asking one simple question.
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A TOUCH OF BIAS
Bari Weiss waltzed into CBS News and ripped the veil off of the media’s left-wing bias by asking one simple question.
Weiss, a former New York Times opinion editor and the founder of The Free Press, was recently tapped to serve as CBS News’ editor-in-chief. This is not your typical EIC job, either. Weiss will report directly to David Ellison, the CEO of Paramount Skydance, rather than the president of CBS News or his superiors.
Placing her outside the company’s normal organizational chart suggests Ellison wants Weiss to have a lot of latitude. He wants her to come in and shake up a dusty product that has lost its consumers’ trust.
That seems to be exactly what she did in her first days on the job, according to a new report from her ex-employer. Weiss reportedly asked senior staff the following question:
“Why does the country think you’re biased?”
This might seem pretty anodyne to you and me.
But the New York Times described the question as “provocative” and said it “stunned” the staffers.
That’s precisely why it needed to be asked.
Americans’ trust in media just hit another historic low. More than half of the country says most journalists are biased.
You have to diagnose a problem before you can fix it. Weiss’s question made it very clear that most people at CBS don’t think there is a problem.
“The inquiry was met with stunned awkwardness, according to three people who recounted details from the private session in Midtown Manhattan. The staff of ‘60 Minutes,’ the nation’s most-watched news program, view their coverage as firmly nonpartisan and reject criticism from President Trump and his allies who argue that it has a liberal slant,” the Times says of the reaction to Weiss’s straightforward ask.
Ha! This is the same news program that ran a segment fawning over Britain’s censorship regime, had a correspondent deliver a commencement address in which he accused Trump of attacking journalism and making diversity illegal, and had a separate correspondent insist the Hunter Biden laptop couldn’t be “verified” and cast doubt on the idea that Hamas starved Israeli hostages — to a hostage’s face. That’s just a small sampling of some of their worst offenses.
Journalists working at legacy media outlets have far higher levels of educational attainment, are more likely to have white-collar parents, are more likely to live in coastal cities, and are less likely to be religious than the average American. Their view of the country is thus incredibly divorced from most of the people who live in it. But their journalism degrees have made them arrogant enough to believe it’s everyone else who has the problem.
This has led to a fundamental disconnect in the way journalists view their jobs and how Americans want them to do their jobs. Seventy-six percent of Americans think journalists should strive to give all sides equal coverage, but only 44% of journalists feel the same way. Why? Legacy media journalists believe they have a monopoly on truth. They no longer believe it’s their job to present both sides because the other side is just, well, wrong.
To them, it’s not bias — it’s truth versus lies (it just so happens that, for them, conservatives always end up on the side of “lies”).
That might be the most difficult instinct for Weiss to fight off at CBS. I wish her well.
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60 minutes' bias is still there. Check out the intro to the most recent piece about the M.E. peace deal. At 1:53 in, she says Israel "carried out air strikes after ACCUSING Hamas of violating the cease fire". The whole world saw Hamas violate the agreement when they executed non-loyalists. No one had to accuse them of anything. It was there for all to see.
If this is to stick, every time Hamas violates, Israel, and hopefully the Arab partners, need to hit back harder.