—Barrington Williams, B1Daily

There’s a old saying that “You just can’t cure stupid” and no head of a media organization represents that adage than the oh so talent-less Bari Weiss who is now head of CBS thanks to it being purchased by billion tech nepo-baby David Ellison.

One of the most widely reported controversies was Bari Weiss’s decision to cancel a 60 Minutes segment about alleged abuses in a Salvadoran prison involving deportees — just a day and a half before broadcast. Critics say this was effectively censorship of investigative reporting and damaged CBS’s credibility.

Reporters and news staff internally protested that the episode had already cleared legal and editorial reviews. Critics allege this decision gave political actors undue influence over editorial content.

Weiss ran a far right blog for years and only reported on largely made up stories meant to inflame bigots online, and no unsurprisingly it didn’t work. She never made anything of it, but she did make friends with rich investors who were fellow white supremacists. And the rest is fake history.

Weiss started her tenure with a purge, dismantling specialty reporting units with more than 100 staffers being laid off, including many in specialized reporting areas such as the race and culture.

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Several CBS journalist have went on the record calling Weiss an “embarrassment”, citing that she’s hard to work with, struggles to read adequately, that she’s “obsessed with Israel” and paranoid about what viewers will think to top it all off.

And then the ratings dropped.

One of the most talked-about recent examples was a news town-hall special hosted by CBS News’s leadership (including Bari Weiss on-screen) that aired in mid-December 2025. The program drew significantly fewer viewers than expected, with reports of roughly 1.5 million viewers — about 20% lower than a comparable timeslot or similar specials the previous year

Weiss also made a buffoon of herself on live television fumbling words, and struggling to respond to basic questions by citizens who weren’t even academic professionals, but Turning Point USA attendees and Erika Kirk. Even her online posting of the event got less than 100,000 views.

Now Weiss has enraged white journalist because she’s pulled a recent 60 minutes episode covering illegals getting shipped to prisons in El Salvador. The piece was titled “Inside CECOT” — an investigative report about Venezuelan migrants deported from the U.S. by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s mega-prison CECOT, where they described harsh and brutal conditions.

Weiss said she withheld the segment because she believed it was not sufficiently complete or fair yet, alleging that story didn’t advance the ball and lacked critical elements that would make it fully reliable and trustworthy for viewers, and that the reporting wasn’t fair to the Trump administration.

The correspondent behind the story, Sharyn Alfonsi, strongly objected, saying that the segment had been vettedmultiple times, including legal and editorial checks. She publicly called the move politically motivatedrather than a genuine editorial decision and implied that this now grants political actors a “kill switch”over the reporting within the company in future instances.

With this type of infighting, is there any wonder why the birth rate is declining?

—Barrington Williams, B1Daily