Now Editor in Chief of CBS, Bari Weiss Takes Her First Woke Scalp

The reckoning begins.

The head of CBS News' standards and practices unit -- who presided over some of the network's recent controversial, woke reporting -- is out as new boss Bari Weiss looks to bring more balance to the left-leaning network.

Claudia Milne, who ran the division responsible for the moral, ethical and legal implications of CBS programming, is the first senior executive to leave the network since Weiss arrived as editor in chief earlier this month.

Although Milne's job had been "slowly phased out," a CBS source called her departure "significant."

"She was part of the woke mob at CBS News. It shows an editorial shift in how CBS will operate," the person said, speculating that "this is Bari's first scalp."

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Milne, who oversaw her unit since 2021, played a pivotal role in a host of eyebrow-raising decisions. Those ranged from coverage of the transgender Nashville, Tenn., shooter and spiking an Elon Musk interview to the network's recent reporting on the Israel-Hamas conflict, among other issues.

Why do I imagine CBS downplayed the transgender shooters??

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As previously reported by The Post, in 2023, Milne and then-news division president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews banned staffers from using the word "transgender" when reporting on the Nashville shooter.

The decision sparked outrage at the network because police working the case had identified the killer, Audrey Hale, as a transgender woman. Sources said Ciprian-Matthews and Milne spent 15 minutes telling staffers not to report Hale's identity because it may not be relevant to the shooter's motive.

"This is absurd because the police identified Hale as transgender," a CBS insider said at the time "If the cops didn't address it, maybe you could avoid it, but withholding information is not journalism."

Milne was also one of the executives who blocked former CBS News correspondent Catherine Herridge from interviewing Musk in 2023, The Post has learned. Herridge declined to comment.

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Another surprising moment in which Milne played a part was last year's criticism of "CBS Mornings" co-host Tony Dokoupil after he grilled author Ta-Nehisi Coates over his one-sided polemic against Israel, which the writer compared to an "apartheid" state.

Then-news division President Wendy McMahon and her number two Adrienne Roark said Dokoupil's interview did not meet the "editorial standards" of the network during a staff meeting last year, citing a lack of neutrality and objectivity.

Take a guess what she looks like.

Did you guess smug lesbian kindergarten teacher? If so, please put a foil star on your refrigerator.

We also would have suggested "stand-in for Mrs. Garrett on 'The Facts of Life.'"

She also "stunned" 60 Minutes staffers by asking them a question they have literally never asked themselves before: Why does most of the country think you're biased?

Anti-woke CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss left the 60 Minutes team stunned when she asked them to consider why viewers think their coverage is slanted.

The self-proclaimed centrist, 41, who has made political neutrality a focal point of her plans for the network, hit journalists with the seven-word question during a private Tuesday meeting, The New York Times reported.

'Why does the country think you're biased?' she asked - leaving the staff and stars of the country's top news program baffled and unable to respond.

Anti-woke CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss left the 60 Minutes team stunned when she asked them to consider why viewers think their coverage is slanted.

The self-proclaimed centrist, 41, who has made political neutrality a focal point of her plans for the network, hit journalists with the seven-word question during a private Tuesday meeting, The New York Times reported.

'Why does the country think you're biased?' she asked - leaving the staff and stars of the country's top news program baffled and unable to respond.

No bias here:

CBS News - specifically 60 Minutes - was also heavily criticized for its coverage of the Israel-Gaza war.

Network veteran Stahl specifically came under fire over her treatment of a Hamas hostage, with conservatives accusing her of being sympathetic towards the terrorist group in a damning April interview.

Stahl was slammed after she asked former hostage Keith Siegel if Hamas terrorists starved him on purpose or if they just did not have any food to hand out.

Seigel, who spent 484 days in captivity, replied: 'No, I think they starved me, and they would often eat in front of me and not offer me food.'

posted by Ace at 01:20 PM

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