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Mag’s Anonymous Attacks On Weiss Only Make Her More Likable

MediaPost.com: MediaDailyNews · Adam Buckman · last updated

Here is what the “TV Blog” took away from a New Yorker story published this week with the headline “Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News.”

In a New Yorker magazine story out this week about Bari Weiss and CBS News, anonymous sources come out of the woodwork to trash her, but despite this (or because of it), a reader comes away with enormous respect for her.

The story, posted Monday on the New Yorker website, rehashes the drama that has ensued at CBS News since Weiss took up the position of editor-in-chief last October.

The story covers the last-minute yanking of a “60 Minutes” piece in December about the notorious El Salvador prison where the Trump administration has sent deportees alleged to have been criminals; and it speculates about the connection, if any, between actions Weiss has taken and Paramount boss David Ellison’s efforts to curry favor with the Trump White House.

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