Rightwing Think Tank Chief New CBS Ombud

[Mark Jeffries]

The first ombudsman in the history of CBS News (what would Murrow think?) is Kenneth Weinstein, the former head of the Hudson Institute, who was picked by Trump in his first term to be ambassador to Japan but didn't get Senate approval--along with many other things, including Paramount's imminent (so it seems) acquisition of Bari Weiss' Free Press (and her possible presence at the Eye), it continues the obvious pattern that the Ellisons want CBS News to be more like Fox:

https://www.thewrap.com/paramount-cbs-news-ombudsman-kenneth-r-weinstein/

And we have to bring in former CNNer Oliver Darcy, now of the Status newsletter, who pretty much says that CBS/Paramount is going to find out what his former channel, the Washington Post and the LA Times are finding out--even if you hired Hannity, Watters and Gutfeld away from Fox, it's not going to make any difference to the right, because they want CBS and those other institutions to burn in the fiery pits of hell, while you're chasing away your former core audience.

[Bob F]

Rotten timing. I'll delete mine from THR.     B