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Bari Weiss tries to fight back after George Clooney Slams her for ‘breaking up’ CBS News Inviting the Hollywood star to visit the network’s newsroom while unabashedly criticizing his Recently announced to become a French citizen.
“Hello Mr. Clooney! Big fan of your work. It sounds like you’d like to know more about our work,” the CBS News editor-in-chief wrote in an email. The first thing to get is new york post.
“This is an open invitation to visit the CBS Broadcast Center, where I am spending the holidays working with my colleagues on the reboot of the evening news,” she continued. “Adjustment on January 5.”
independent CBS News and Paramount have been contacted for comment.
in an extensive interview type Clooney’s father is a longtime television news anchor. This week, Clooney accused mainstream news organizations of capitulating to Donald Trump and paying him to settle defamation lawsuits.
“When Clooney plays [Edward R.] Last spring, Murrow went on CBS News to settle a frivolous lawsuit with Trump in order for Trump to approve the sale of parent company Paramount to Skydance. That angered Clooney, as did a similar settlement ABC News reached with the president over defamation charges. ” type pointed out.
“If CBS and ABC had challenged these lawsuits and said ‘fuck off,’ our country wouldn’t be where it is now,” Clooney declared. “That’s what it is.”
Weeks before Trump returns to the White House for a second term, ABC News parent Disney Pay Trump $15M to resolve his complaints Anchor George Stephanopoulos falsely asserted that Trump was “responsible for rape” in the civil case of E. Jean Carroll.
However, Trump has actually been found responsible for sexual abuse and slandered Carroll. although Legal analysts at the time told independent First Amendment experts warned that ABC’s case “would be a close call” if it went to trial and that the settlement could have a “chilling effect” on press freedom.
Meanwhile, last summer, Paramount Agree to pay Trump $16 million Settling his ‘baseless’ defamation lawsuit 60 minutes Interview by Kamala Harris – Just weeks after the Trump administration approved an $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media, the merger is fraught with political risk.
As one of Hollywood’s most outspoken liberals, Clooney also “MAGA Friendly” Orientation Skydance’s David Ellison has been at the helm of CBS News since it acquired Paramount, which included appointing Weiss, the “anti-woke” founder of center-right Substack site The Free Press, to lead the news network.
“Barry Weiss is destroying CBS News as we speak,” he exclaimed. “I worry about how we understand ourselves and how we discern reality without a functioning media.”
“Animated” Clooney, who most recently played legendary CBS News anchor Edward R. Murrow in the Broadway play good night and good luck (adapted from Clooney’s 2005 film), is also angry that some journalists and media organizations have abandoned their “mission to hold the powerful accountable.” This prompted him to quote a line from Murrow’s play.
“‘Let’s not confuse dissent with disloyalty.’ I mean, that’s a beautiful and important statement about who we are at our best. But too often we fall short,” he told us type.
Since taking over as head of CBS News in October, Weiss (who also sold the Free Press to Ellison for $150 million) faced severe criticism from staff and media observer So did her efforts to overhaul the network.
This includes booking herself to host a primetime town hall with Erica Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, prompting Network employees labeled her “shallow” Because it “shows that all she really wants is to be on TV.” although Not so good rating Saturday Night Special, Weiss announced soon The network will launch a series called “Town Halls and Debates” important thingsVice President JD Vance serves as the first participant.
In recent days, however, Weiss has faced significant backlash her last minute decision 60 minutes story The Trump administration is deporting Venezuelan immigrants to CECOT, a notoriously violent Salvadoran prison.
There was speculation that she canceled the segment due to her recent anger at Donald Trump. 60 minutes and Ellison Hoping to get presidential approval for his hostile takeover bid The Warner Bros. Discovery Channel report prompted the reporter behind the story to accuse Weiss of making a “political” decision that Weiss may soon face “rebel” among the network’s staff.
The backlash has become so intense that a former CBS News reporter Draft an open letter Sent to Ellison this weekend, urging him to “send a message” to Weiss and tell her to stop interfering 60 minutes.
“The threat of editorial interference 60 minutes Not only does this betray the core principles of journalism, it jeopardizes the crown jewel of CBS News, which has helped sustain the network financially and editorially for generations,” the letter reads.
Meanwhile, Weiss is currently hard at work prepping the latest reboot of the perennial No. 3, according to her email to Clooney cbs evening news.
back Her bid failed arrive Poaching big-name talents Weiss revealed this month when she took over the nightly broadcast anchor role from another network. cbs morning show Co-host Tony Dokoupil, who had always been her favorite, got the job. move unwelcome Some CBS News staff.
For example, one staffer described Dokupil as a “bland straight white guy” who got the job because his views aligned with Weiss’s pro-Israel stance, while another added: “It’s an insult to the legendary news giant that preceded him.”