No, Bari Weiss Isn’t Doing ‘Both Sides’ — That’s Just a Lazy, Outdated Read

Colby Hall Nov 26th, 2025, 9:35 am

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Oliver Darcy thinks Bari Weiss is reviving a “both-sides” formula that Trumpism already broke. He’s wrong — not because he misidentified the problem, but because he misidentified Weiss’s solution.

At the Jewish Leadership Conference earlier this week, Weiss laid out her vision as CBS News’s new editor-in-chief: make the editorial process visible. Let viewers see the debates — the reasoning, the friction, the values — that shape coverage before it airs. Stop hiding perspective behind institutional neutrality. She framed this as serving the “75 percent” of Americans who don’t live at the extremes and don’t treat disagreement as injury.

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