Bari Weiss/Erika Kirk "Town Hall" Promos on CBS

[MineralMan]

Around CBS news programming, they're running promo ads touting the "Town Hall" featuring Erika Kirk and hosted by new CBS Editor in Chief Bari Weiss.

Having watched the promo several times now, it's clear to me that this will not be any sort of unbiased event. The promos include teary-eyed acting by Kirk and sympathetic questioning by Weiss.

This bodes very badly for all of CBS News. Combined with the announcement of Tony Dokoupil's takeover of the CBS Evening News, it demonstrates a new, heavily conservative lean for CBS News that is pretty frightening.

Looks like I'm going to be switching to another network for my evening news half hour.

This is some ugly shit, my friends. See the teaser on YouTube:

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[live love laugh]

1. Insane.

[NCDem47]

2. Not ONE question will be asked about her husband's rhetoric while he was alive.

[C_U_L8R]

3. The ratings will speak for themselves.

Erikkka Kkkirkkk is stale news. Advertisers won’t flock to failure.

[newdeal2]

6. They are showing this on a Saturday night

This is to appease the orange man, not to grab ratings.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. They should be LAUGHED off the air

This is a bird brain's delusion.

[underpants]

5. My god. Look I'm very sorry about what happened but if you constantly are breaking down

in public, don’t be in public. Go home and grieve.

This is very egregious by CBS. Trying to show their fealty right out of the gate.

[MineralMan]

8. Yes. They're leading with sympathy-getting crap.

This is going to be about as bogus as it comes. It will not turn out well for CBS. They're already #3 in ratings for broadcast network national news. This is going to send them off-the-chart lower. Pure bias on display.

Walter Cronkite is going to rise from the dead over this crap.

[underpants]

19. Absolutely. I wonder how many CBS viewers will ask out loud

“Who was Charlie Kirk?”

This is free advertising

[Polly Hennessey]

9. This is not breaking down grief. It is dry tear sniffling

grade D acting. Worst thing about it is bringing her three year old daughter into it as a grief sledgehammer.

[underpants]

21. The most common comparison on line is Tammy Faye Baker

[dem4decades]

7. CBS News is dead to me. Mr. Katy Tur? Please. And now this nonsense, CBS is Trump propaganda now.

And one has to question MS NOW too with Tur on all afternoon. Will the Trump group be feeding both Katy and Tony feel good stories about Dozing Don for them to broadcast? Probably already happening.

[Qutzupalotl]

10. What do you say to people I made up?

The people I pretend are watching the murder and laughing? Please cry on cue, we need ratings!

[librechik]

11. CBS--the most persistent of all the Project Mockingbird agents IMO

and really just an arm of Naval Intelligence. Like CNN is an agent for the CIA.

I have been a journalist for decades and have observed these issues and factish trails closely. No one will be able to prove these theories (I didn't invent them--crawl into the Mockingbird rabbithole and discover this conspiracy for yourself.) I'm convinced.

So CBS? Not a surprise they are bending the knee.

[USS_Dauntless]

12. I associate cross necklaces with the worst sort of human beings.

[karynnj]

13. The lead in question was disingenuous.

Asked of Kirk's wife, it was never going to lead to a serious discussion of the impact of hate rhetoric including that on the right. It also subtly set up the idea that many people on the left were happy or " thought he had it coming".

Anyone reading DU that day would have seen a mix of reactions. The main one was that the right would make him a blameless martyr and the blame for his death would be assigned to us.

It ignores that the motive of the man, raised in a very red, gun loving family was Kirk's hateful rhetoric against the shooter's partner. That rhetoric was not as Weiss described it just something he disagreed with, but rhetoric driving actions including legislation that harmed trans people.

I agree that I do not expect Weiss in later questions to address that, especially as it would be unseemly to ask those questions of a crying widow. Instead, the question may be whether she is exploiting his widow or, more likely, giving her a platform. Either way, I doubt it will be a serious effort to look at the danger of the increasing political hate speech.

If Weiss were interested in questioning the increase in partisan hatred, the way to question it is not an interview with the widow of a murdered man who used hate speech against others.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

14. Have also dumped CBS Evening News. I now switch back/forth w/ABC & NBC, until they start w/the fluff stuff

like they all do now.

[rurallib]

15. Might I suggest using an old media for news? Radio

I listen to NPR, CBC and BBC. Gives a good variety.

[MineralMan]

16. I use a broad range of sources for my news.

I always have done so. I recommend that.

[progressoid]

17. Fuck CBS

They are complicit.

[SocialDemocrat61]

18. Joy Reid weighs in

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[Takket]

20. Another conservative voice silenced by the liberal media!

[msongs]

22. oh look she's gone back to mourning black for the interview....no males to grope to comfort her

[MineralMan]

23. She's a performance artist, just like her late husband.

That will be her role from now on. Of course, she could also hook up with J.D. Vance and dream of being First Lady...who can say?