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When Paramount Skydance announced in early October 2025 that Bari Weiss would step in as editor-in-chief of CBS News, the predictable tantrum from the newsroom began almost at once. Corporate America finally did what conservatives have been asking for: inject new thinking into a failing legacy institution long content to preach rather than report. If the result is a little chaos in a place that has grown comfortable with groupthink, so be it.
Bari Weiss is not a conventional hire, and that’s precisely the point. A former New York Times editor who walked away rather than bow to illiberal orthodoxy and the founder of The Free Press, she has spent years calling out the excesses of identity-driven journalism. Experience in broadcast television is different from moral courage and intellectual independence, and CBS needed more of the latter.
The immediate backlash — including furious staff reaction to a simple memo asking employees how they spend their time and what projects they’re proud of — exposed a newsroom more interested in policing ideology than doing hard work. Unions have told members they can ignore the request, which only underscores how protected and insulated elite media workers have become from basic accountability. This isn’t about worker rights; it’s about a culture that rewards conformity and punishes dissent.
Conservatives should welcome this shakeup. For years Americans who don’t share the coastal media’s catechism have been dismissed and demeaned, and CBS’s hesitant ratings and shrinking trust are proof their model isn’t working. Weiss’s appointment signals an appetite at the top for viewpoint diversity and an end to the one-sided narrative machine that has driven viewers to alternative outlets.
Let’s be blunt: critics who clutch pearls over her lack of broadcast pedigree are defending a broken status quo. The problem at CBS has never been the number of journalism degrees in the room; it’s been a lack of intellectual humility and an unwillingness to cover the whole country. A leader who challenges newsroom assumptions is exactly what a network needs if it plans to win back skeptical Americans.
There will be noise, and there will be attempts to delegitimize any effort to hold reporters accountable or to broaden coverage. That is to be expected from an entrenched media class whose power depends on maintaining the narrative. Patriots and hardworking Americans should not be intimidated by their theatrics; this moment is an opportunity to demand fairness and real accountability in reporting.
If CBS is serious about renewing trust, it will back Weiss’s effort to shake up the echo chamber instead of sheltering the tantrum-prone actors who spend more time crafting virtue-signals than covering the news. Americans deserve a news network that serves the country rather than a tribe. It’s time to stop apologizing for seeking balance and start supporting leaders who will bring it.
