BEST ENDORSEMENT YET FOR BARI WEISS: Dan Rather questions Bari Weiss’ credentials for CBS role, says hiring is ‘dark day’ for network.
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather criticized CBS News on Thursday for making journalist Bari Weiss its editor-in-chief, as well as acquiring her independent news outlet, “The Free Press.”
Rather, age 93, argued on his Substack page that the hiring of the anti-woke reporter, as well as CBS coming under the control of billionaire David Ellison – whose father is a friend of President Donald Trump – meant that CBS News will be catering to the Trump agenda.
“The American people will pay the price for this move, as will the journalists of CBS News who can no longer credibly serve as watchdogs because the ones they are meant to hold to account are signing their paychecks and hobnobbing with the president,” the veteran journalist wrote.
At one point, he warned, “It is a dark day in the halls of CBS News.”
Curiously, it takes about a dozen paragraphs until just before the end of the Fox New article to read, “Rather stepped down from his role as ‘CBS Evening News’ anchor in 2005 and left the network the following year after reporting a discredited story about then-President George W. Bush.”
Well, that’s one way to put it, I suppose.
Related: Associated Press Is Big Mad Over ‘Polarizing’ Bari Weiss Joining ‘Fact-Based’ CBS.
Our friends at the Washington Free Beacon did us a great service late Monday by collating an exhaustive list of the most ridiculous meltdowns over CBS News announcing Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief and that parent company Paramount SkyDance purchased her site, The Free Press.
By Wednesday, the Associated Press got off the sidelines to offer a cartoonishly whiny piece that, if published earlier, would have made the roundup in sneering a “polarizing” person taking over a “fact-based” network that has supposedly never had “an agenda.”
Matt Sedensky sneered from the onset that this “polarizing voice” had “made a name for herself as an unflinching critic of mainstream news outlets,” but must now “run one.”