‘Trump Approved News’: Dan Rather Blasts CBS News Hiring Bari Weiss

Kathryn Wilkens Oct 10th, 2025, 4:42 pm

President Donald Trump speaks at the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, with Oracle’s Larry Ellison. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Veteran CBS broadcaster Dan Rather slammed CBS News for hiring Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, calling the move a symptom of the network’s transformation under its new billionaire owner, Skydance CEO David Ellison — a shift he described as turning the network into “Trump-approved news.”

On Thursday, in his Substack newsletter , Rather wrote that David’s father and the co-founder of Oracle Corporation, Larry Ellison , and his son “believe CBS News is broken. And like their friend Donald Trump , they’re convinced the cure for a frac

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