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CBS Boss BURNED As News Producers Quit Over Disastrous Network Shift
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4:54Now PlayingCBS News boss Bari Weiss gets rocked as more and more news producers are quitting the network, including one producer that shared a fiery memo exposing the behind-the-scenes shift to 'self-censor' and avoid the truth. John Iadarola and Luke Beasley break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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CBS News producer quits, blasts Bari Weissled network for pressuring staff to ‘selfcensor’
"A CBS News producer has quit and shared a fiery memo that accused the Bari Weiss-led network of pressuring staff to “self-censor.”
Alicia Hastey’s scorched-earth exit came as The Post revealed on Tuesday that 11 “Evening News” staffers, the majority of them producers, took voluntary buyouts to leave the network.
“There has been a sweeping new vision prioritizing a break from traditional broadcast norms to embrace what has been described as ‘heterodox’ journalism,” Hastey wrote in the memo, which a New York Times reporter posted on X late Wednesday."
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