Five months into her tenure running CBS News, Bari Weiss is making choices that are drawing scrutiny from inside the building—and raising a question the newsletter class spent the weekend chewing on: where does The Free Press end and CBS News begin? The flashpoint was a Friday report CBS News posted across its social channels about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife, Rama Duwaji, and her Instagram likes from October 7, 2023.
Peter Attia seems, in contrast, rather sensible. There's the fact that he went to medical school and practices as a doctor. His work has popularized the term healthspan-the years of one's life when physical and mental abilities are still sharp, before disability or disease settles in-and the goal to maximize this period.
In a social media post reporting that the King would cooperate with the police investigation into his brother Andrew's ties with the late serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, CBS News mistakenly referred to the monarch as King Charles II a distant ancestor of King Charles III who died more than 300 years ago in 1685. The mistake, which was slapped with a community note on X, quickly went viral, with social media users dunking on the suggestion that a 17th-century monarch had been reached for comment.
Bari Weiss, Tony Dokoupil, and the pieces of CBS News they speak for are somewhat obsessed with telling you that they don't expect your trust, but they intend to earn it. Dokoupil when he stepped into the CBS Evening News anchor role earlier this month. Weiss reiterated this yesterday during her all-hands meeting with the CBS News staff, wherein she also promised those of us at home scoops, scoops, and more scoops .
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Puck's Dylan Byers: CBS News correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi openly accused network leadership of acting as a White House mouthpiece amid a month-long internal hostage standoff over a delayed 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador's CECOT prison. Alfonsi's first meeting with CBS News chief Bari Weiss reportedly opened with It's so nice to finally meet you, before she shouted at Weiss deputy Adam Rubenstein, You don't get to produce me! The segment ultimately aired during the NFL playoffs to 4.9 million viewers.
Screenshot White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt threatened CBS News Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil the administration would sue your ass off moments after he finished his 13-minute interview with President Donald Trump, The New York Times reported Saturday although some witnesses weren't sure if she was being serious. Leavitt approached Dokoupil after he asked his last question of the president on Wednesday, The Times reported.
On Tuesday, after a months-long internal debate at the network over how to address transgender people in its coverage and the terminology associated with them, Tom Burke, senior director of standards and practices at CBS News, issued a memo to staff about the change, reports. Effective immediately, the news division "will use the term biological sex at birth" with "no quotes needed."
Some CBS News employees expressed concern after the network cited two anonymous US officials on Wednesday to report that the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis suffered internal bleeding to the torso after the incident. CBS initially published the account about officer Jonathan Ross on X, formerly Twitter. About 30 minutes later, the network followed up with another post, containing a link to an article by two correspondents that similarly cited two US officials briefed on his medical condition.
