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CBS News Faces Right-Wing Takeover Concerns with New Editor

10/8/2025

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Bari Weiss's appointment as CBS News editor-in-chief raises concerns of a potential right-wing takeover.
CBS has taken steps viewed as concessions to conservatives, including hiring an ombudsperson tied to the Hudson Institute.
The network's liberal bias label reflects a decades-long clash with conservatives dating to the 1950s, with Spiro Agnew and Robert Welch (John Birch Society) critics.

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Story summary

Bari Weiss's appointment as CBS News editor-in-chief raises concerns of a potential right-wing takeover.
CBS has taken steps viewed as concessions to conservatives, including hiring an ombudsperson tied to the Hudson Institute.
The network's liberal bias label reflects a decades-long clash with conservatives dating to the 1950s, with Spiro Agnew and Robert Welch (John Birch Society) critics.