"To others, it amounts to the elevation of a person who is anything but evenhanded, a conservative posing as a centrist who will shovel half-truths and worse. The network where Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather became news icons, and on which the ticking stopwatch of "60 Minutes" cued some of television's most revered journalism, is now Weiss' turf. A look at Weiss and her journey to the top of one of the most vaunted outlets in news:"
"Weiss bills herself as a centrist and has staked positions on both sides of the political divide. "There's a woke left. There's increasingly a woke right. And then there's the normal people," she said in an appearance last year, calling the fringe of both sides "eerily similar." In a 2017 appearance, she said she was politically "homeless," deriding President Donald Trump and the Second Amendment and praising the national anthem protests by NFL players."
"She so often has rankled liberals, animosity toward her has been encapsulated in headlines like the one in Current Affairs: "Why we all hate Bari Weiss so much." Weiss has said she voted for Mitt Romney in 2012, Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. Trump's win in 2016, she has said, left her sobbing. But she later said she had"
Bari Weiss will serve as editor-in-chief of CBS News and provokes sharply divided reactions. Some view the appointment as a triumph for critics of "woke" culture who expect more balance in mainstream media. Others see Weiss as a conservative posing as a centrist who may advance half-truths. Weiss describes herself as a centrist and criticizes extremes on both the left and right while taking positions that often unsettle liberals. She has criticized corporate diversity efforts, colleges' lack of political diversity, and pro-Palestinian protesters. Her voting record includes Romney (2012), Clinton (2016), and Biden (2020).
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