CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss addressed the firing of Scott Pelley during a staff meeting Wednesday morning, telling employees that the network had no choice but to part ways with the veteran correspondent following his public confrontation with management.
“The foundation [of trust and mutual respect] was broken” Weiss said during the network’s daily 9 a.m. editorial call, according to a recording obtained by The Post.
Three major outlets experienced sudden swings in their audiences this year—changes that align almost perfectly with how often they were promoted on some of the biggest news aggregators. Newsweek’s traffic plunged in April after steady promotion the month prior. Qatari-backed Al Jazeera saw its readership explode in March. And leftist outlet The Minnesota Star Tribune rode a steep wave upward in January before bottoming out again the next month. The timing was too consistent to ignore.
Americans’ confidence in television news and newspapers rates below that of a host of other U.S. institutions, results of a new national survey reveal.
Nearly half (46%) of U.S. adults say they have almost no confidence in TV news, while only one in twenty (5%) have a “quite a lot,” according to a new poll by The Economist/YouGov conducted May 22-26.
Of a sudden, the media has swarmed now-former Democrat and California Congressman Eric Swalwell.
CBS News is the Titanic of broadcast news organizations. It’s a century old, spans the globe, airs something like a dozen programs, and employs more than 10,000 — the most powerful all cut from the same ideological mold.
Steering that hulk away from the iceberg is no easy feat, but it’s the assignment given to new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss by parent-company Paramount CEO David Ellison.
As Gerald Baker wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal, the biggest threat to modern journalism is the journalists. He pointed out that bias and incompetent reporting are the major causes of media distrust these days. But while those factors are highly important, they aren’t the entirety of the news business’ failure.
Last week, some of our best and brightest journalists in the field of left-wing propaganda faced something even more terrifying than front-row seats to the Melania documentary: They were fired from their jobs. The Washington Post announced it would be laying off one-third of its workforce as part of its ridiculously selfish bid to stay afloat.
Now, if you were to look at other left-wing propaganda journalists who (for now) remain employed, you’d think this was the worst news in the world. “The Murder of The Washington Post,” wrote The Atlantic’s Ashley Parker, “Jeff Bezos Killed the Washington Post,” declared Slate’s Alex Kirshner, while MS NOW — formerly MSNBC — published Zeeshan Aleem’s opinion column titled: “The Washington Post bloodletting symbolizes our great media crisis.”
I am old enough to remember when Peggy Noonan was worth reading.
She is smart and charming, with a real way with words. She has the soul of a poet and the common sense one expects from one.
Wednesday 4 February 2026 will live on as a day of infamy in the United States. For, lo, twas the day that the Washington Post – tagline ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ – laid off 300 democracy-savers, after it transpired that ‘saving democracy’ was not a profitable enterprise.
Oh the irony.
Back there in the stone age of the 1970’s, two young, talented rising stars at The Washington Post- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein by name – rose to fame and fortune investigating the unraveling Nixon White House. And what was eventually labeled the “Watergate” scandal.
Who’s the “mainstream media” these days?
The traditional (i.e. up to maybe a year ago) answer would be: it’s the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBS, NBC, the BBC and so on. In Canada it would certainly include the CBC, the Toronto Star and that other “national newspaper” (the name slips my mind).
Wrong then, and certainly wrong now. Measured by audience, influence, whatever metrics you want to use as a gauge of a dominant “mainstream” media operation, the answer today surely must include, maybe even start with, Joe Rogan.
Rogan has demonstrated a tendency to bend with the wind in the past.
He has become a celebrity talk show host (Interview with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) and consequently a part of the establishment media.
In 2 or 3 years he’ll be the new Howard Stern.
There’s a helpful new way to determine whether the dying news media are lying: Simply look for some variation of the phrase, “according to a New York Times analysis.”
The Times itself has repeatedly relied on that little trick to cast blame on the Trump administration in the death of the angry anti-ICE leftist now identified as Renee Nicole Good. She was shot in Minneapolis last week after recklessly flooring it in her SUV in the middle of the street while disrupting a law enforcement operation.
After US troops swarmed into Venezuela, seizing the country’s president and his wife, there was little to be heard from the Pentagon.
Typically, it would be a time for defense officials to talk to the Pentagon press corps: a group of journalists made up of some of the most talented reporters in the US. The Pentagon could have been expected to be held to account over what has been criticized as a violation of international law.
Under the Trump administration, that didn’t happen.
The TDS infested MSM are a cut and paste crew who literally lie to the American public.
Block Communications, which owns Pittsburgh’s major daily newspaper, announced today that it plans to shutter the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which is now scheduled to publish its last edition on Sunday, May 3. According to the newspaper, the Block family expressed its regret on how this would impact the Pittsburgh region, and that it was “proud of the service the Post-Gazette has provided to Pittsburgh for nearly a century.”
CNN isn’t a real news network, but on New Year’s Eve it can be pleasant to have it on while you’re doing other things – so that every hour, on the hour, you can look at the screen for a couple of minutes and see the arrival of the midnight hour celebrated with fireworks in one world capital after another.
To be sure, when the new year arrives in the Middle East, things on CNN start to get – well – a bit curious. This year, CNN’s coverage from the Gulf region was based in Abu Dhabi and hosted by CNN veteran Becky Anderson, who, during the several years she’s been living in that city, has been promoting it, and the United Arab Emirates generally, with a consistently fervid intensity. Her conduct on New Year’s Eve was no exception to the rule: even more than celebrating the New Year, Anderson’s assigned job for the evening seemed to be to celebrate the Gulf autocracies, especially the UAE.
