MAGA Shil Bari Weiss Getting Canned? CBS Hurting From Biased Reporting
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What role has Bari Weiss played in media bias at CBS?
All right, have you noticed that not only does Benjamin Netanyahu dog walk Donald Trump, it appears he also dog walks Barry Weiss of CBS News. She allowed Benjamin Netanyahu to pick his own person to interview him. Pop this up. uh dylan byers has scoop paramount leadership has had informal discussions about changing barry weiss's mandate at cbs news and eventually cnn in ways that would give her less control over tv and joining me to discuss this is adam johnson he is the co-host of the citations needed podcast and author of how to sell a genocide the media's complicity in the destruction of gaza adam thank you for joining me today thank you so much for having me on Yes. What is your response to this Barry Weiss news?
I'm a little skeptical of it. Barry Weiss was brought in for the explicit purposes of being an ideological enforcer for the Ellison family. So the idea that they would withdraw her power, it could be because of pushback from internally from reporters. I mean, obviously, there's a lot of the people there. They just lost Anderson Cooper over this. view it as illegitimate, that they've completely destroyed the firewall between ownership and editorial independence such as that it existed under Sherry Redstone, who herself intervened three separate times because they thought 60 Minutes' coverage was too critical of Israel. And then she sold it to the Ellison family, who, of course, is the largest private donor to the IDF.
And they bring in Barry Weiss, who obviously has a history of being staunchly pro-Israel. But there was a lot of pushback internally, I know, from several reports that she had kind of gone too far or kind of flew too close to the sun in terms of editorial intervention. And of course, they're using 60 Minutes effectively to suck up to Trump. So they'll approve the much more important prize, which is CNN and Time Warner and that whole empire, which is far more valuable than Paramount, which is only $8 billion. I'll believe it when I see it, because I think the reason why she was brought in was pretty explicitly to weed out what was perceived as anti-Israel bias or woke or anything considered too liberal.
It was a combination of right-wing grievances that she was there to enforce. My sense is that they may be trial ballooning this to see if this eases off some of the tensions from their more established reporters.
What are Adam Johnson's thoughts on Bari Weiss's potential loss of power?
I agree with you. I'm not buying it. You wrote this piece for The Intercept. Pop this up. You analyzed more than 12,000 articles from mainstream outlets and more than 5,000 television segments that aired on CNN and MSNBC. What shocked you the most?
What shocked me the most? I suppose not a lot shocked me, although the asymmetry of the data was pretty profound. So we looked at bias by comparing, for example, the first thing we compared was what we call emotive words, which is when an Israeli is killed, US media, whether it's New York Times or CNN or MSNBC describe it as brutal or savage or barbaric or a massacre or a slaughter, whereas when Palestinians are killed, overwhelmingly our data shows by about 100 to 1. When Palestinians are killed, it's either never referred to as a barbaric or a slaughter or a massacre, which is the case with the New York Times and Washington Post and most print media, and effectively the case with cable news such as CNN and MSNBC, which we covered.
which we argue is a form of a very obvious bias. So Israel kills 20,000 children over the course of two years and somehow manages, and the number is probably double that, and somehow manages to do so without once committing a massacre or a slaughter, whereas the New York Times uses the term over 100 times in the first 60 days alone after October 7th. And what we argue is that that's statistically impossible. We looked at the asymmetry in coverage in terms of Sympathetic victims, children, journalists. We looked at the a totally asymmetrical coverage of anti-Semitism versus Islamophobia, which was overwhelming, which is overwhelming in the data. We looked at these kind of mantras like right to defend itself, which almost always precede hand waving away mass carnage that emerged from Gaza in the first few months.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What role has Bari Weiss played in media bias at CBS?
0:05–2:43
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What are Adam Johnson's thoughts on Bari Weiss's potential loss of power?
2:43–18:08
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What shocking findings emerged from Adam Johnson's media analysis?
18:08–19:19
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How does media bias manifest in reporting on Israeli and Palestinian casualties?
19:19–22:12
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