Rick Wilson said it best
So what now? Daily Beast:
Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief at the now Trump-friendly CBS News, has announced there will be mass layoffs at the network.
In a Friday memo to staff, seen by the Daily Beast, Weiss and CBS president Tom Cibrowski announced the cuts, saying those affected will be notified by the end of the “difficult day.”
“It’s no secret that the news business is changing radically, and that we need to change along with it,” Weiss and Cibrowski wrote.
“New audiences are burgeoning in new places, and we are pressing forward with ambitious plans to grow and invest so that we can be there for them. That means some parts of our newsroom must get smaller to make room for the things we must build to remain competitive.”
Competitive with whom? you ask. Good question.
Seth Abramson responds:
It’s worth remembering that whenever a MAGA figure enters an institution as a “leader,” that institution is soon destroyed, with the MAGA figure thereafter blaming everyone else for what happened and launching a round of mass layoffs
Sometime in the future, the MAGA figure will be paid off to go away, even as they leave the institution they poisoned utterly destroyed forever
Once you start looking for this phenomenon you can’t stop seeing it, and it’s exactly what’s happening at CBS News today
Abramson continues. But you know where this is going:
MAGA is a death cult. That means it doesn’t build anything or innovate or foster any community or develop ethoi that inform or inspire… it has only one setting, and that setting is war. Tear everything down, attack everyone, delegitimize everything, defile everywhere. The idea that Bari Weiss has any vision whatsoever that relates to the news or anything else is simply laughable. She is a self-aggrandizing, clueless chaos agent who will throw all the toys out of the crib until she skulks away.
The only thing any professional operating in good faith can do in the face of something like this is get as far away from it as possible as quickly as possible so that you don’t get any of the moral and spiritual stink of MAGAism on you.
The moment CBS News hired Weiss, it was gone.
Everything Trump Touches Dies. #ETTD