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Weiss faced “mass confusion” at the network this week as staffers received conflicting orders on whether to respond to her memo, according to Variety.
The knives are out for CBS News’ new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. Because she succeeded. Paramount, which owns CBS, is buying The Free Press, the news organization she co-founded, reportedly for about $150 million in cash and stock.
President Trump said Sunday that he thinks CBS has “great potential” after a summer merger between CBS parent company Paramount and David Ellison’s Skydance placed the son of a close Trump ally at the helm of the media corporation.
The Pentagon Press Association said its negotiations with the Defense Dept. over new restrictions "have not been as successful as we had hoped."