Bari Weiss attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 8, 2026, in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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Bari Weiss’s latest
hire for “60 Minutes,” whose major journalistic output includes smearing genocide victims and putting a target on the backs of reporters in Gaza, shows that the full-blown right-wing tabloidification of the television news program is charging ahead.
If one held out hope that U.S. media would seek to reverse course after its support for genocide in Gaza over the past 34 months, those hopes were severely misplaced. The mainstream media’s lockstep support for genocide, which I document in my recent
book on the subject
, has not abated, and in key ways it’s only ramped up, become more explicit, and removed any remaining pretense of editorial independence.
The most obvious example of this is the Ellison family’s $8 billion purchase of Paramount and overtly right-wing revamp of CBS News, which kicked off in earnest last year. A former gold standard of centrist journalism, Weiss’s takeover of CBS News has seen numerous high-profile
firings
,
scandals
, and credible allegations of
undermining
journalistic independence,
allegations
of Trump toadyism, and a broader
editorial push to the right
.
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This campaign has been, in large part, aimed at sucking up to Trump to push through the much bigger prize of a $111 billion
Warner Bros. Discovery takeover
. But there’s another element at play: The Ellison family’s
documented support for Israel
and its broader ideological aims. As I
noted
last December, Weiss was put in place by David Ellison
precisely because
of her years of strident, pro-Israel coverage and willingness to push the boundaries of racism and cynicism to pursue this cause. So far, Weiss’s attempt to turn the prestigious “60 Minutes” brand into another New York Post has been met with ma
