And That’s the Way It Is

At CBS News, the suppression of critical reporting and the promotion of appeasement reveal Bari Weiss’s true colors.

In the early sixties, when the CBS Building was under construction on West Fifty-Second Street in Manhattan, engineers developed a new granite-finishing process to achieve the rough black facade specified by the skyscraper’s architect. More than eight million pounds of granite were torched with five-thousand-degree heat in a process known as thermal stippling, the New York Times reported. Then the granite was blasted with highly pressurized water filled with glass beads the size of salt grains in a process known as liquid honing to revive the stone’s original color.

CBS journalists left the building, known as Black Rock, around the turn of the century, most migrating to offices on West Fifty-Seventh Street. It is there that CBS News, in the past three months, has undergone another round of scorching heat and intense pressure, revealing, for better or worse, the true colors of the Tiffany Network’s executives, producers, and journalists.