Bari Weiss Takes Hiatus From Podcast as Turmoil Mounts at CBS News
As Bari Weiss’s bumpy tenure as the top editorial honcho at CBS News nears the four-month mark, the millennial opinion writer turned broadcast exec announced that she is taking a hiatus from the podcast she’s hosted for four years.
On Thursday, Weiss made the announcement of her hiatus from her podcast Honestly With Bari Weiss in a post on The Free Press, the news and opinion website that she founded two years ago and was purchased by Paramount Skydance for $150 million. That deal, brokered by CEO David Ellison, also included the editor-in-chief of CBS News gig for Weiss, putting her at the helm of a major broadcast newsroom after spending much of her career as an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and running The Free Press.
“If I sound mushy right now, it’s because I love making this show, and I’m not done making it. But 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 said in a short audio announcement. “So here’s the news, Honestly is taking a little bit of a pause. I know it’s hard to hear that. It’s definitely hard for me to do that, because I love doing this show, but I think, and I hope that you’ll understand why.”
Weiss promised listeners that the hiatus is not indefinite and that she plans to bring the podcast back in a few months, as she focuses on reimagining CBS News, which she referred to as “a huge responsibility” and “an extraordinary opportunity” to bring her values and those of her news outlet “into a much bigger arena.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/bari-weiss-takes-hiatus-podcast-014407268.html
No one wants to listen to your blather.
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speculation that the ELLISON boy still has his focus on the bottom line and might be letting WEISS crash and burn on her own.
She seems to be tracking Chris LICHT's disaster at CNN, but on steroids.
