Earlier this month, Paramount announced that it had officially acquired The Free Press, the digital publication founded by Weiss, and would bring Weiss into the fold of CBS News, which, as The Hollywood Reporter recently reported, had been expected but also was greeted with dread inside the news division. Weiss works outside of the current org chart by reporting directly to Paramount CEO David Ellison, while The Free Press will remain a stand-alone business outside of CBS News.
Oliver began his segment on Weiss by noting: “Let’s start with the fact that she’s been given editorial control of a massive news organization, even though she’s never run a TV network, has no experience directing television coverage and, as one 60 Minutes producer pointed out,…
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