Bari Weiss Isn’t Selling Centrist News. She’s Rebuilding Normal News at CBS.

Colby Hall Nov 25th, 2025, 10:42 am

Bari Weiss isn’t just critiquing the failures of legacy media anymore. As the recently appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News, she’s now in a position to rebuild it — and at the Jewish Leadership Conference, she explained exactly how she plans to do it.

Her diagnosis is blunt: every “centrist news” project crashes for the same reason — it treats the absence of disagreement as the remedy for polarization. It sands down charisma, splits every difference, and produces what she calls “tofu oatmeal,” journalism so bland and viewless that no one can taste a perspective, much less trust one.

Her alternative isn’t moderation. It’s transparency. Put people with genuinely diffe

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