Key Highlights
- “CBS has now been taken over, thanks to greedy owners, Shari Redstone partnering with David Ellison, Larry Ellison‘s son.” Watch on Deadline Related Stories News Paramount To Buy The Free Press; Founder Bari Weiss To Become Editor In Chief At CBS News News Bari Weiss Memo Queries CBS News Staffers On What They Do; WGAE Warns Members Not To Respond Until They Get More Info Chung continued, “Their greed has caused the venerable CBS to actually disassemble, to crash into crumbles, and they’ve hired this – I don’t know what to call Bari Weiss.” Following his Paramount takeover in August, David Ellison named Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News, in addition to purchasing The Free Press, her right-leaning commentary site.
- Given Weiss’ predominantly op-ed experience, many have questioned her qualifications to oversee a balanced and unbiased news organization of this size.
- When asked how it feels for herself and husband Maury Povich to watch CBS News these days, following her 1989-’95 tenure, Chung responded, “We don’t.
- “I mean, I can’t.
- The paradigm has completely changed in news and we have so much opinion that the truth doesn’t hold value anymore,” she said.
