{"id":2087075,"date":"2025-10-13T06:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2087075"},"modified":"2025-10-13T06:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:08:17","slug":"john-oliver-warns-viewers-to-keep-a-close-eye-on-cbs-news-in-wake-of-alarming-bari-weiss-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-oliver-warns-viewers-to-keep-a-close-eye-on-cbs-news-in-wake-of-alarming-bari-weiss-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Warns Viewers to Keep a Close Eye on CBS News in Wake of \u201cAlarming\u201d Bari Weiss Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1056659\/\">John Oliver<\/a> used his main segment on Sunday\u2019s Last Week Tonight to take a close look at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9474175\/\">Bari Weiss<\/a>, the newly appointed editor-in-chief of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0011682\/\">CBS news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a> announced that it had officially acquired <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0979866\/\">The Free Press<\/a>, the digital publication founded by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1970916\/\">Weiss<\/a>, and would bring Weiss into the fold of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0011682\/\">CBS News<\/a>, which, as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0087279\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> 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 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1911103\/\">David Ellison<\/a>, while The Free Press will remain a stand-alone business outside of CBS News.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm16304674\/\">Oliver<\/a> began his segment on Weiss by noting: \u201cLet\u2019s start with the fact that she\u2019s been given editorial control of a massive news organization, even though she\u2019s never run a TV network, has no experience directing television coverage and, as one <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0123338\/\">60 Minutes<\/a> producer pointed out,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver used his main segment on Sunday\u2019s Last Week Tonight to take a close look at Bari Weiss, the newly appointed editor-in-chief of CBS news. 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2087076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2087075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/John-Oliver-Warns-Viewers-to-Keep-a-Close-Eye-on.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087077,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087075\/revisions\/2087077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2087076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}