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AStern

(915 posts)
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 05:26 PM Oct 2025

Bari's Bright Ideas

Sadly , there's a paywall but this brief excerpt is gold:

Bari’s Bright Ideas

(Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call.

Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre.

On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.”


https://www.breakermedia.com/p/air-mail-s-new-editor-charles-forelle-s-new-gig-daily-mail-layoffs
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Bari's Bright Ideas (Original Post) AStern Oct 2025 OP
Infotainment newdeal2 Oct 2025 #1

newdeal2

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 05:44 PM
Oct 2025

Distract the public from what’s really going on and avoid challenging Trump. Win- win!

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