‘Mushy’ Bari Weiss proclaims she’s pausing her ‘Honestly’ podcast ‘for a few short months’ | EUROtoday

Bari Weiss introduced this week that she is putting Honestly – her podcast for The Free Press – on pause “for a few short months” as she offers with the “huge responsibility” of her position as CBS News editor-in-chief, which has been marked with snowballing controversies and plummeting morale amongst community workers.

The break comes as Weiss continues to be entrance and heart in media information, whether or not it’s the drama round her resolution to lastly air the controversially-delayed “Inside CECOT” phase this week, rumors that she’s taking purpose at blowing up one other CBS News program, or scuttlebutt that community veterans’ “jobs are on the line” as a result of they’ve pushed again in opposition to her.

“Don’t worry, it’s not forever; we’ll be back in just a few short months,” Weiss declared throughout a shortened episode of Honestly on Thursday, acknowledging that she was getting “mushy” concerning the pause.

Crediting her podcast, which launched in May 2021, with serving “to remind us of our most basic values – values that over the past few years too many have seemed to have forgotten,” Weiss boasted concerning the “serious thinking” that she’s delivered throughout greater than 400 episodes of Honestly.

“If I sound mushy right now, it’s because I love making this show, and I’m not done making it,” she mentioned. “But, as you may have heard if you have an internet connection, I’ve also taken on a new role. And that’s as editor-in-chief of CBS News. It’s a huge responsibility and it’s an extraordinary opportunity to bring the values that drive this show and that drive The Free Press into a much bigger arena.”

Indeed, along with being named the editorial chief of the Tiffany Network in October, Weiss noticed her center-right “anti-woke” Substack web site bought by Paramount chief David Ellison for $150 million. The Free Press, which Weiss based together with her partner Nellie Bowles and sister Suzy Weiss, has since been built-in into the CBS News equipment whereas remaining a separate entity.

“That is the mission of journalism. That is fair, fearless and factual,” Weiss added in her announcement. “In a sentence, my job is to take the values and the vision that you have supported and stood behind here at Honestly and bring it to CBS News.”

Following that preamble, Weiss delivered the “news,” which is that there can be no new episodes of the podcast over the subsequent few months. At the identical time, she indicated that she would return to the present down the road.

“CBS News boss Bari Weiss is still all anyone in the TV biz wants to talk about,” CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter noticed following Weiss’ podcast announcement. “For the time being, Weiss is going to do a bit less talking.”

At the identical time, whereas Weiss is trying to do “a bit less talking” on her podcast, she seems to be partaking in much more whispering to sure reporters behind the scenes. As Status News’ Oliver Darcy first reported, after Weiss lastly gave the greenlight for 60 Minutes to quietly air the “Inside CECOT” story she spiked a month earlier, Weiss rang up a number of journalists to assist form protection of her resolution.

It was throughout these behind-the-scenes conversations that Weiss – who experiences on to Ellison, who’s reportedly looking for favor with Donald Trump amid Paramount’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery – “expressed significant frustration” with Sharyn Alfonsi, the 60 Minutes correspondent behind the “Inside CECOT” report.

“She is so out of her depth it’s astounding. Her inexperience is on full display,” one community reporter informed The Independent. “How long must we endure this fiasco?”

The New York Post additionally reported this week that Alfonsi and 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley – who’ve each vocally pushed again in opposition to Weiss’ editorial decision-making – at the moment are susceptible to being fired. Notably, Alfonsi’s contract is up in a number of months.

Additionally, Weiss has instituted extra editorial oversight of 60 Minutesas she’s going to now participate in a Monday assembly with the newsmagazine’s government producer Tanya Simon, which is a outstanding departure from the present’s conventional method of largely working by itself throughout the CBS News operation.

Meanwhile, after her “MAGA-coded” reboot of CBS Evening News with new anchor Tony Dokoupil – which has suffered a rocky rollout amid “embarrassing” technical mishaps, cringey pro-Trump segments and gentle rankings (exterior of 1 blip because of the preemption of NBC’s nightly information present) – Weiss is setting her sights on different CBS News establishments to revamp.

According to Breaker’s Lachlan Cartwright, Weiss is now changing Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan, who has served because the Sunday present’s anchor since 2018 and has been with the community for greater than a decade.

“So, will Weiss look to promote internally, like she did with Dokoupil, with talent such as Chief Washington Analyst Robert Costa, senior correspondent Norah O’Donnell or Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett? Maybe, though we’re told Weiss is looking externally to replace Brennan, according to two people familiar with the matter,” Cartwright added.