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Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social

"The bigger problem, Lulu, frankly, is not any kind of political influence. The problem was the incompetence.." Scott Pelley talked to @lulugn.bsky.social about "the Bari Weiss era and his last days at 60 Minutes:" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

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A welcome bit of comic relief: “It’s almost as if Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton were sealed in a time capsule in 1990, and it just cracked open. They’ve just discovered the internet, and they’re running around telling everybody how important it is.”

Cowardly as hell. "As we’re standing in there, Nick makes his way to the front of the room and does something absolutely jaw-dropping to me. He pulls out his phone and begins reading a statement off his phone in a room full of 50 heartbroken people."

Aggressive re-writes in order to make the left-of-center appear to be blood thirsty, non-thinking, Jesus-hating, transexual, violent, eco-terrorist, Communists? Sounds like a typical afternoon at Fox. Ms Weiss keeps driving to the wrong building. #lost #sabotage #news #60Minutes

Everyone knew she had no fucking business being in that position. It was no secret when she was hired. Her work was proven shoddy before she got there.

Reminds me of a story I heard recently about ... it was either the Sun or the Daily Mail during the Thatcher years. Labour had just had some sort of good moment and the editor stood up in the newsroom abd declared "we have to hit back!"

Not a journalist here, but would it be common for an editor to give such direct orders about how to frame a story? As a journalist I wouldn’t expect that type of heavy-handedness, certainly not the type described here that changes the entire tone of the story.

The thing about Weiss that truly fills me with disgust is that she's such mediocrity. Like, she did not earn a position and then abused it, she was placed there solely as a controllable tool who lacks real intelligence and it shows.

See BS news. What a disgrace. Used to be the gold standard for news reporting, now they kneel to Trump and this fascist government.

It's horrifying. They wanted 60 Minutes to justify the killing of an innocent woman by doctoring the reporting. I will never watch CBS again. Not until they clean up their act. You can't trust them now. I never believed the people of the United States would stand for this evil. Now I know.

I agree, but also, we need good people on the inside getting this info out. Maybe he was spreading the word to his coworkers and others in the news offices so they could be aware and plan to combat it. Maybe the stories that have come out about cbs have come from him??

He's an evil person. He outright says he had already been carefully picking the footage to make sure the protestors looked more violent, before she asked. He's just offended that she wasn't professional enough.

A good person wouldn’t sit on this info. A good person wouldn’t already be injecting their bias into news stories. These are not good people & I don’t know why y’all think they are.

Respectfully, did you read the article? Or watch the interview? Because from this comment, I assume you didn’t, but please correct me if I’m wrong. The interview is quite wide ranging, and I think you should read it before commenting on the intentions and choices of the interviewee.

He went after who he needed to go after on his first meeting on the job. That's hardly keeping it to himself. There was no need for YOU to know about it before that.

It’s not even that they can’t be trusted, maybe they can. But the writing is already on the wall that they’ll be swimming upstream in a million little ways that the viewing public will never hear about, and Bilton promising “independence” is as good as the lies he & his Weiss crew have already told

"...late poet Refaat Alareer... held Weiss responsible for the massive online harassment he faced and warned of its potentially deadly consequences. Tragically, Alareer was later targeted and killed by Israeli forces in a precision attack."

Refaat Alareer, his daughter, son-in-law & grandson all killed by Israel. "Bari Weiss... seemed to be waging her own private war... It was her tweet, taking Refaat’s joke out of context, that put him on the Israeli war machine’s radar."

"This is Abdul-Rahman, Refaat’s grandchild... Refaat was killed 7 weeks before Abdul-Rahman’s birth. Abdul-Rahman was killed along with his parents: Refaat’s oldest daughter, Shaimaa, & her husband... April 26, 2024, after being targeted by 3 Israeli airstrikes."

These changes most definitely were political, not incompetence. Their effort to shape reality has taken a major step "forward"* w the acquisition of media co's thru proxies *or "backward" if looking at it from the lens of the public good.

She was put there to do the evil, then get sacrificed as the scapegoat. All the women in this administration in leadership roles are there FOR THIS REASON To take the fallout, crystalize and focus the rage onto the women, then get shoved into a wickerman, and sacrificed to the howling mob.

And why should she be beating these allegations? She was put there for one purpose, to be a bootlicking propagandist, and I think she is doing an excellent job being a bootlicking propagandist.

Think it’s time for a new Scaramucci. If you’ve done a Bari Weiss, you’ve taken something fine, beautiful, universally beloved & good, & completely destroyed it. For example, Trump has BariWeissed the Oval Office…and the Rose Garden… & the East Wing.

I have a friend who grew up in her neighborhood, and still runs into her family occasionally. I asked what kind of people they are; friend’s reply was a polite version of “They think their 💩doesn’t stink.” 1/2

Best way to understand her: she's a fraudster, same as Trump. DJT is a dumb spendthrift/mark who convinced ppl he's an astute business pro. She's a dimwit who convinced ppl she's bright/of insight. Both waged war on the NYT. Both have fake universities. Both could not legit earn the $ they have.

With directives like this, the Alfonsi story spiking, and I’m sure other examples, I’m unclear on why Pelley, Stahl, Vega etc worked for this person until about a week ago (or still work for her, in the case of Stahl, Whitaker and Wertheim).

This is. If you read the whole piece, he'd already been actively trying to make the protestors look as bad as possible before she asked.

That doesn’t sound like incompetence to me (although that’s definitely part of it). That sounds like a deliberate attempt to shape a story (also known as lying) to fit a preconceived narrative

In Bari’s world, a train conductor who operates a train that runs over a suicidal person who jumps on the tracks at the last minute should be put to death by the state. That conductor drove the train *towards* that person in the same way Renee drove *towards* her state sanctioned murderer.

There is no difference between Bari Weiss and Joseph Goebbels: Transforming real events into fiction to justify murder and advance a radical right ideology. I cannot express how dangerous this is.

The real evil is people with the money and motivation to purchase a 'liberal media' network and then destroy it to please a fascist administration. The useful idiots they hire are kind of irrelevant in the overall scheme.

David Ellison is going to do whatever Trump tells him to do, and he'll direct his employees accordingly. BTW, the most violent protesters I have ever seen were at the Capital on Jan 6, 2021.

Pelley is of course correct but I think it’s even deeper than Weiss and the Ellisons being biased for Trump. I suspect Bari Weiss and her bosses the Ellisons have every intention of replacing every single human that works at CBS and 60 Minutes with an AI robot. The AI white collar jobpocalypse.

60 Minutes is dead and so is the network. It has become state television. I left legacy media at the beginning of tRUMP 2.0 and never looked back. The best have left and joined independent media world and do not have their hands tied to tell us the truth.

Turning the nation's premier television news program into more lying propaganda for the neofascist regime. Despicable. Like Fox News taking riot footage from years ago and overseas and claiming it's people protesting ICE or against police brutality.

Don’t underestimate the enemy. They’re throwing $ millions into convincing the “rubes” that we’re the enemy. We’ve got to learn how to combat mis, dis and malinformation. Every time you hear it, even in casual conversation, push back with the truth, Hard.

Except, of course, you can't honestly say Renee Good was driving AT the ICE thug. bsky.app/profile/smul...

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The bullet hole in the windshield was the first shot. If Jonathan Ross was shooting at Renee Good and not at something in the right rear tire well then he was standing where the photographer is standing. i.e. Jonathan Ross was not in front of the car when he shot at Renee the first time.