Claire Malone

But I'd also think that there'd probably, her hackles would be raised, where she'd say, like, well, how many people are actually watching this?

I think if you sort of talk to people who knew Barry Weiss, they'd say, well, she likes a big project, right?

And this is certainly a big project.

I think we'll probably see different forms, right?

Experimentation with form at CBS.

She hosted a town hall with Erica Kirk, which was, I think, a disappointment.

But okay.

I'd be curious to see, you know, she hired as her head of talent acquisition a woman who ran talent acquisition for Substack.

So are we going to be seeing different kinds of correspondence, more sort of opinionated correspondence, openly opinionated in the way that I think is more native to like the kids watching their stuff on YouTube?

Maybe.

I think the other thing that I have a real question about is Trump is entering his lame duck period soon-ish.

You know, even with all the kind of, you know, openness to the administration that I think, you know, Weiss's CBS has signaled, you still get this interview that Trump did with Tony DiCupo the other night.

And, you know, Trump really, you know, kind of, in his way, richly humiliated DiCupo and said, you know, you wouldn't have a job if I had won the election.

I mean, he just says that.

I think it's sort of this sharp reminder that...

Trump knows he can always change the rules on you, right?

That he can always pull the rug out from under you.

And so I think that those unstable atmospheric conditions with Trump while you're trying to run this kind of Trump potentially sympathetic news organization, I mean, that's a really uncertain task.

And so it sort of begs the question, what principles are you guided by?

And, you know, I think, you know, we can take Weiss at her word that she wants a broader spectrum of opinions.