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UTUSN

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Fri Jan 23, 2026, 12:21 PM Jan 23

if (we) have an internet connection - WEISS is conserving her outside activities to focus on CBS for awhile.

I love how The Daily Beast uses "goons" and "MAGA-curious" and "MAGA-coded"! And I'm choosing to see WEISS cutting back as a portent that she is on a steroided trajectory version of Chris LICHT on his way out at CNN - so early!!!!!!!!!!

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/maga-coded-cbs-boss-shelves-side-venture-as-network-spirals/ar-AA1UL33N?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=69739394917643e8b8b3c04275c1ad0c&ei=35

MAGA-coded CBS boss shelves side venture as network spirals

CBS News’s MAGA-curious editor-in-chief is putting her personal podcast on pause to put out fires at her new job.

Bari Weiss, the former opinion journalist installed as the head of the national news organization despite having no prior television experience, announced on Thursday that her Honestly podcast will take a break.

“As you may have heard if you have an internet connection, I’ve also taken on a new role, and that’s as editor-in-chief of CBS News,” Weiss, 41, said. “It’s a huge responsibility, and it’s an extraordinary opportunity to bring the values that drive this show, and that drive The Free Press into a much bigger arena.”

“So, here’s the news: Honestly is taking a little bit of a pause," she added, saying that it would return in “just a few short months.” ....

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if (we) have an internet connection - WEISS is conserving her outside activities to focus on CBS for awhile. (Original Post) UTUSN Jan 23 OP
And here goes Margaret BRENNAN from Face the Nation - UTUSN Jan 23 #1
& 2 more items but from NY Post & Faux so won't post - 1 WEISS war on 60 Minutes and UTUSN Jan 23 #2

UTUSN

(77,302 posts)
1. And here goes Margaret BRENNAN from Face the Nation -
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 02:58 PM
Jan 23

I used to like her in the past year (never watched Face before that) because she was tough on MAGAts, but when WEISS took over it seemed BRENNAN was cozying up in that direction. Now there's this:

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/mediaite-one-sheet-bari-weiss-minneapolis-coverage-davos-and-more-2-2/
Breaker’s Lachlan Cartwright 🚨 SCOOP: Bari Weiss is now targeting Face The Nation moderator Margaret Brennan for replacement, looking externally rather than promoting internally. Brennan has hosted since 2018 … This follows Weiss blowing up the Evening News by ousting John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois for Tony Dokoupil.





UTUSN

(77,302 posts)
2. & 2 more items but from NY Post & Faux so won't post - 1 WEISS war on 60 Minutes and
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 06:19 PM
Jan 23

2 that reporter ALFONSI from the delayed story screamed at a WEISS flunky, "You don't get to produce me."

That the ELLISON boy might be waiting for WEISS to flameout. Meanwhile firings.






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