CBS News insiders fear Bari Weiss will soon enact 'massive changes' to 60 Minutes

[Marie Marie]

26. I disagree (with all due respect). Bari Weiss has a huge ego (as evidenced by the bust of herself

at that other place she used to run. Sorry forgot the name). I mean who else, other than Trump, places a bust of themselves in the lobby of their workplace? She left the NY times because she blah blah blah {read: thought she was smarter). She took the job at CBS having NO experience in running a news department on television, vowing to turn things around by doing things differently (immediate fail), conducted important interviews by herself instead of turning that over to experienced journalists because she could do it better, interfered with the stories on the above mentioned 60 Minutes because SHE felt the content was slanted and now wants to radically change the only CBS News show that she hasn't yet tanked the ratings.

Yes Trump and Ellison wanted to change the tone at CBS to be more Trump friendly but she is not in disagreement with that and her ego is too large to take a dive for them. She honestly thinks she is smart enough to be more sympathetic to Trump while still making CBS News wildly successful by revamping it into her idea of covering news. In spite of the disaster she has created so far, she does possess the kind of hubris that tells her that she is right and will continue with her plans to shake up the News Division in her image.

She did not take this job to tank CBS. Others may have wanted her to do that but her ego would not take that humiliation. She took the opportunity to show everyone how much smarter she is, how she will go for Fox Lite while improving CBS ratings with her brilliance. She has failed, swiftly and spectacularly, and will continue to do so. She is one of those people who doesn't know what she doesn't know because she thinks she knows better than anyone.