“John Oliver used his Main Segment on Sunday’s Last Week tonight to Take a Close Look at Bari Weiss, The Newly Appointed Editor-In-CBS NEWS. Earlier this month, paramount AnnounCed that it had an officiary’s account the Free Press, The Digital Publication Founded by Weiss, and Wound Bring Weiss Into.”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Earlier this month, paramount AnnounCed that it have officiali account The Free PressThe Digital Publication Founded by Weiss, and Willd Bring Weiss Into The Fold of CBS News, Who, As The Hollywood Reporter Recently reported, had been expectioned But Also Was Greeted with Dread Inside the News Division. Weiss Works Outside of the Current Org Chart by Reporting Directly to Paramount Ceo David Ellison, While The Free Press Will Remain A Stand-Alane Business Outside of CBS News.
Oliver Began His Segment on Weiss by Noting: “Let’s Start with The Fact That She’s Been Given Editorial Control of A Massive News Organization, Even Thought Thought A, NEER RUNK Television Coverage and, As One 60 minutes Producer Pointed Out, is not Even A reporter. That is true. She didn’T come up through the News Site of a Newspaper, But Through the Opinion Pages, WHICH ARE A VERY DIFFERENT THING. ”
As Oliver Noted, Weiss “Made A Big Name for Herself” After Being Hired BY The New York Times as a columnist.
The Last Week tonight Showed A Clip of Weiss Explaing: “My Job Explicitly Was to Bring in Voices That Wuldn’t OtherWise Naturally Appear In The New York Times, EITHER BECAUSE OF EDITORS Wuldn’t Think To Commission Them, or The Writers Themselves Wuld Think, You Know, You Know, You Know, You Know, You The New York Times wound Never Accept me. ”
His response: “Yeah, she was apparently tasked with finding voices that The Times’ Op-Ed Page Wuld Never Accept, WHICH IS ALREADY A BIG CLAIM GIVEN THAT BEFORE SHE HIRED HIRED THERE, IT PUBLISHED OP-ES from, And this is True, Muammar Gaddafi An. If The Times Had been around in the 15th Century, I’M Guessing they would have given an opinion piece to vlad the Impaler. ‘DRINKING THE BLOOD OF MY ENEMIES ISN’T DISGUSTING; IT’s Beautify and Courageous. ”
Oliver Noted that Some of the Columns Weiss Wrote at The Times INCLUDED “ON WHICH she argued that left has gone gone too Far in policing cultural Appropriation,” Another That Was “A Largely Sympathetic Profile of The Intellectual Dark Web, A Terktual Like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro “and Another One” Suggesting Progresses Were So Focused on Labeling Fellow Americans Fascists, They Missed Opportunities to Call OUT -FASICISM Weapons-Grade Whataboutism. ”
That Latter Column, Oliver Noted, Got Attcture Due to the Fact that It Contained Links to Posts from The Official Antifa Twitter Account, WHICH THAT WAS ACTUALLYLYLYSHYSHTYSTTTYKNOKNOKNOKON Embarrassing. Times Writer to Fall for Online Hoaxes Like They’re Your 75-Year-Eold Aunt On Facebook Who Keeps Posting That Message Saying, ‘I Hereby State That I Do Not Give My Permission Tose.
But Her Time At The Times Came to an End After It Ran An Op-Ed by Sen. Tom Cotton, Who Argued that Federal Troops Should Be Used Put A Stop to Protests Against Police Brutality. After The Op-Ed Was Published, Many Staffers Argued That The Times Shouldn’t have Publissed It.
“And Bari Weiss Wrote A Series of Tweets About A Suppedly Heated Staff Meeting Characterizing It as A Civil War Between the MOSTLY Young Wakes and The MOSTLIED 40 And Up Liberaals. “That clam was strongly dispotted by Other at the Paper, With One Editor Saying, ‘i’m in the Same Meeting That Bari Appears to Be Live Tweeting. This is InacccCcCcrate In Both Characteriz. Editorial Conversation, and IT’s Not Breaking Down Along Generational Lines. ‘ So to be fair, It Sems Bari Weiss Does Have Some Reporting Experience, Specificly Trying To Report What Was HapPening in the Meeting, Only to Have Our Own Co-Workers about? ”
She resign soon afterward and founded The Free Press.
“ITS FIRST MOTTO WAS ‘HONEST NEWS FOR SANE PEOPLE,’ WHICH Feels Scientifically Engineered to Trigger An Eye Roll,“ Oliver Quipped, Adding: “In The Five Years Readers, ALTHOUGH ONLY AROUND 1 IN 10 ACTUALLY PAY to SUBSCRIBE, MEANING IT Generates Subscript Revenues of About $ 15 Million A Year, Which Isn’T NOTHING, BUT I WOHU Justify Someone Spending $ 150 Million to Acquire It, As that Is A Revenues to Valuation Ratio that would be make mr. [Shark Tank‘s kevin o’leary]Start vomiting Blood. ”
Oliver Noted that Weiss Has Repeatedly Insted She’s Only Interested in The Truth, But Then Played A Clip of Her Talking About The Free Press‘PROCESS FOR FINING OUT The TRUTH: “The Identity of Our Brand is TRUTH-Seeking, and Our Premise Is You Cannoot Get To Truth in An Echo Chamber. The only Way thing you get. Makes It So Different from Any Newsroom I’ve Ever Worked in – Witting Next to Someone Who Disagreees with You, Who You Still Respect, Admire Them and Collaborate With. ”
Responed Oliver: “I Mean, Maybe, Maybe that is How You Do It As An Opinion Writer, But That Is Not How You Get To Truth As A Reporter, Is It? there’s not a ton of hard journalism on The Free Press Site. There’s Really Not Much of Anything there. There’s USUALY JUST A HANDFUL OF NEW POSTS A DAY WHICH CAN EVEN INCLUDE WIRD ShIT LIKE EDITORIAL CARTOONS from DAVID MAMET, The PlayWRIGHT. And if you’re Thinking, ‘I Didn’t Realize David MAMET COURKAK DRAW’ – FUN FACT, HE CAN’T. ”
Oliver Ten Went Through A List of Headlines On Free Press Stories, Including: “I can explain who the Nazi Salute is Back,” “I Criticized Blm. Then and was was Fred,” “I Took Religion Out of Christmas. I Regret it,” “I wo. Far-Right ?, “” I WAS CALLED AN ‘INBRED SWINE’ AT PRINCONON LAST NIGHT, “” I’M 17. AND I’M IMMUNIZED FROM WOKE Politics, “” My Family Was Hunted BY. “My HUSBAND WANTS TO BE CREMATED. I’D IGNORE HIS DYING WISH” and “I USED TO HATE TRUMP. NOW I’M A MAGA LEFTY.”
JOKED OLIVER: “IT Feels Like We’re Just Two Weeks Away from An Article Titled ‘I DREDSED MY DEAD WIFE UP AS HITLER FOR HER FUNERAL, AND NOW HER WOKE FAMY. MAD
He said that a look at The Free Press‘Homepage Might Not Give The Impression that Outlet Is Conservital. “But on you start reading it articles, the pronounCed theme that starts to emerge is the left has Gone Too Far,“ Oliver Said. “BASICALLY, WHATEVER Issue You Feel Like That Is True For – Israel, Campus Politics, Dei or Police Reform – You’ll Find Articles there to reinforce that opinion. And it’s immune from criticism at all, but it can sometimes feel like The Free Press’ conclusions can get out ahead of its evidence, which brings us to the fact that some of its pieces can be pretty poorly fact checked and in Ways that Feel Important. ”
Oliver Ten Brough Up Examples of Stories Reported by The Free Press That other outletts had Contradicted with Their Own Reporting, Including Accusations That Transgender Center at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Was Prescribing Puberty Blockers or Hormone Therapy Without Approprrialy Conducting Mental Health Assessments; Another on Crime in Austin; and a third on starification in gaza.
As for that Latter Story, It Was Shared by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on His Social Media Account with the Caption “Facts Matter.”
This “is terrible for multiple reasons, including if Netanyahu every Shared One of Our Stories, and Think i’d Burn TheTe Place to the Fucking Ground,” Oliver Quipped.
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Oliver Ten Criticized Ellison for “Think[ing] that she and her editorial sensiness make her a good fit for the job. ” He Also Noted That Ellison Is Reportedly Planning to Make A Bid for Warner Bros. Last Week tonight. That “isn’t iDeal, Although i’ve Gotta Say, if What HE LIKES About Bari is that She Forces Him to Have Have Hard Conversations to Get A Bit Uncomfortable, Maybe He’ll. Like this, ”he added.
The Host Went On Note that Future of CBS News is Unclear Under Its New Editor-in-CHIESF. “Maybe Bari Weis Will CBS News,“ He Said. “Maybe She’ll Flame Out.”
But he cautioned his viewers to pay at the ae distrences at the News Organization Going Forward: “It is wort of keeping an eye Journalists Will Continue to Do Great Work, if You Start Seeing People Resign or Getting Fred, or You Start Seeing SEEM OF SEEM OFF Cares about, it’s worth asking youRSELF WHY THAT MIGHT Be, Because Unfortunately the Much Bigger Answer Might Be that A Billionaire Has Chosen to Inject CONTRIANIAN INTINING OPINING OPINING OPINING icon. ”