There has been no shortage of hot takes about Bari Weiss’ appointment as CBS News’ top editorial exec — and speculation that David Ellison paid $150 million for her contrarian outlet The Free Press mainly to appease the likes of Donald Trump by trying to show that he wants to make CBS News “anti-woke” and root out alleged liberal bias.
Predictably, Weiss’ arrival at CBS News rattled the troops. WGA East warned staffers to not reply to her memo asking for details on “how you spend your working hours” until the union received assurances that the responses wouldn’t factor into layoffs or “discipline.” CBS told the WGA that employees would
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