In October, the new owners of CBS appointed Bari Weiss to the new position of “Editor-in-Chief,” which has made her far more controversial than the actual content of CBS News would suggest. Weiss quickly became a scandalous figure out of all proportion to the actual content of CBS News under her watch. She was tumbling “the dominoes of capitulation,” wrote Margaret Sullivan.
It’s a little shocking that Weiss felt it necessary to cancel an upcoming lecture at UCLA, the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, because of the virulence of the expected student protests. The Daily Bruin school newspaper reported a petition calling for the event’s cancellation collected “nearly 11,000 signatures.”
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