Weiss said news organizations needed to do more to win back the trust of the American public and vowed that no amount of outrage would derail us. We are not out to score points with one side of the political spectrum or to win followers on social media, according to the memo, signed by Weiss and other CBS News leadership and published in full by several media outlets. We are out to inform the American public and to get the story right.
Parliament's culture, media and sport committee has demanded to know the BBC's response to the memo, setting Monday as a deadline. The BBC's board is compiling its response. However, insiders believe the leaking of the memo to the Daily Telegraph and the criticisms that have followed from Johnson are part of a concerted attempt to undermine the organisation, which is heading into crucial talks with the government over the renewal of its charter.
