Why Media Journalists Can’t Stop Covering Bari Weiss

Sunday morning as foreign editor of CBS News Shayndi RaiceThe microdrama over the death toll between Israel and Palestine was fading and the network correspondent Jan Crawfordis now removed anti–Abdoul El Sayed tweet was about to take off, The New Yorker published a brief contribution to the inexhaustible Bari Weiss canon: a review entitled, without interest, The Bari Weiss effect in “60 Minutes”.» And why not? A year into his tenure, the Bari speech remains a still-thriving subgenre of American letters – fueled, to varying degrees, by Asset-the anxieties of the time; the destabilization of the liberal media institutional order; a certain hatred of players enhanced by algorithms; and a dwindling, but nonetheless crowded, journalists’ guild who still can’t believe Weiss made a $150 million stock deal to sell his company and take over CBS News, while they’re stuck throwing pencils in the ceiling fan and staring into AI space.

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