Name: CBS Boss BURNED As News Producers Quit Over Disastrous Network Shift
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Under the leadership of Bari Weiss, the CBS Evening News isn't just losing the respect of its audience, and

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They're also losing an increasing number of the former staff of that show who've made the apparent principal decision not to waste their experience and their talent on a program that's no longer committed to journalism, but

instead is just committed to delivering regime approved propaganda.

And we have an example of that, a statement that was sent by a former CBS Evening News producer, Alicia Hastie, to New York Times media reporter Ben Mullen that says this talks about how sad she is to have to move on.

But she says there's been a sweeping new vision, prioritizing a break from traditional broadcast norms to embrace what has been described as heterodox journalism.

The truth is that commitment to those people and the stories they have to tell is an increase is increasingly becoming impossible.

She had been talking about the commitment she had to making sure that people's stories were being told.

And all that regular people stories may instead be evaluated not just on their journalistic merit, but

on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations, a dynamic that pressures producers and reporters to self censor or avoid challenging narratives that might trigger backlash or unfavorable headlines.

Walter Cronkite once said in response to critics, if that is what makes us liberals, so be it.

Just as long as in reporting the news, we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism, that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

Cronkite's idea is one of the best I've encountered.

He understands that labels are inevitable, but standards are what matter.

What defines journalism is not what critics call it, but whether it remains faithful to those principles.

And finally, I've always taken comfort in the belief that if we hold fast to those first ideals, trust follows.

But those ideals cannot stand on their own.

They require vigilance, they require courage.

And unfortunately, it's just not a place where it seems, I guess, even possible anymore on cbs, thanks to Bari Weiss and the way that the network has surrendered to the Trump administration.

Evidently, the New York Post says as of Tuesday, six of their 20 producers have already accepted buyouts ahead of impending layoffs, because not only are they going to do ideological screening, but

also you don't need as many journalists if you're not going to be doing journalism, so you can just fire a bunch of them, which I'll note they also did at the Washington Post.

Can you remind me, Tony Is it Docopil couple?

So maybe those producers leaving are contributing to why the show is.

And I saw that as he was getting ready to assume that position since Walter Cronkite was referenced.

he said something like, I'm going to be the next Walter Cronkite, or people are going to be stunned by how Cronkite I'm going to be.

And so then he gets on and one of his first broadcasts, and

Now you wait before I say that you have the bigger reasons.

And the behind the scenes, ideologically skewed decisions that Barry Weiss is making, obviously trying to make it more of a MAGA friendly network, which, again, is not the sign of unbiased journalism, which was the essence of Cronkite's message.

You're always gonna have bad faith actors trying to pull you to their side by calling you an agent of the other side.

If you always try to please everyone ideologically, you're going to sacrificing actual journalism.

There's these outlets who got obsessed after Trump won the election with.

With neutrality as opposed to objectivity and making it appear like everything's a both sides issue as opposed to just reporting.

Sometimes the facts will bolster one side's argument because they'll align more with the facts, and

That's the more substantive part of this.

But the moment where I went, all right, I'm out on Tony already was one of his first broadcasts was him.

L literally saying, I salute you, Marco Rubio.

Because it was so crazy that Rubio was getting memed with different photos of him in different outfits.

And he said, this is proof that people in Florida just love Marco Rubio.

His monologue, he said, we salute you, Marco Rubio.

And it was like, what the hell am I watching?

That should have been like satiric, a satirical segment on the Daily show that should not have been a serious segment on the CBS Evening News.

And by the way, I just want to point out, it isn't just that they're, like, losing their workers and everything.

As I said, these moves that Barry Weiss is making are not bringing an audience.

They are losing their audience and they're sticking with it, which implies that they are not making these changes because they believe it's going to bring in money.

They're making it for some other reason, and I don't think it's hard to figure out what.

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