"A throwing up emoji is not enough of a reflection of the feelings in here, one particularly incensed CBS News employee said in a text message. It's utterly depressing. Somebody who has zero experience in television news or even hard news for that matter... but with a clearly defined political agenda, said another staffer. It's hard to see this as anything more than an attempt to bend the knee completely."
"It's been 18 months of lurching through reported mergers, legal threat, lawsuits, settlements, firings, yet another round of new leaders, said a third CBS News employee. Here we go again having to introduce and prove ourselves to new leaders with more perceptions and less actual understanding of the ebbs and flows of this organization. The room looked pretty stone-faced, an employee who participated said."
Paramount Skydance reportedly acquired the Free Press for $150m and appointed Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief at CBS News. Several current network employees reacted with apprehension, skepticism and frustration about the appointment. Staffers emphasized Weiss's lack of television and hard-news experience and raised concerns about a defined political agenda influencing the network. Employees noted organizational fatigue after 18 months of mergers, legal threats, lawsuits, settlements, firings and repeated leadership changes. Weiss missed the network's daily 9am editorial call; CBS News president Tom Cibrowski said she would attend future meetings and invited employees to contact him directly with questions.
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