Column: In Real Life, There's No New 'CBS Newsmax' Under Bari Weiss

January 23rd, 2026 6:00 AM

The leftists on social media have hilariously caricatured CBS News under new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss as “CBS Newsmax,” like it’s lurched dramatically to the right. But if you’re monitoring CBS in real life, there’s plenty of evidence that “classic CBS” is still operating. In recent days, CBS has proven to be worse than ABC and NBC in its tilt to the left.

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‘Death Spiral’ of ‘Bile,’ ‘Jingoism’; Journos Dump on Dokoupil, Weiss

January 22nd, 2026 12:52 PM

This week, there was another cascade of sophomoric hit pieces against CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil for publicly expressing the need for CBS to regain the trust of more Americans. Hilariously, the smears ignored the newscast and wider network’s record of recent bias, including 96 percent negative coverage of ICE in Minneapolis. Four separate hit…

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CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ Airs Predictably Partisan, Pro-Mob Story on ICE

January 19th, 2026 4:51 PM

Sunday’s 60 Minutes should be the clearest sign yet that little has changed at CBS News under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss as, despite the apocalytpic claims from so-called “media reporters,” they’re still churning out partisan drivel. Along with airing the story on the El Salvadoran jail CECOT (which was nearly identical to the one Weiss held up last month), 60 Minutes opened…

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FINALLY: ‘60 Minutes’ Airs CECOT Story. Cue the Elitist Media Meltdown

January 18th, 2026 10:44 PM

After about a month, CBS finally aired the 60 Minutes item on Salvadoran megaprison CECOT that was held for “additional reporting” at the direction of CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. The report finally aired today, and after watching the end result we can conclude that Weiss was right to hold it.

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Letterman: CBS News Has Been ‘Eviscerated,’ ‘Pissed on’ by ‘Idiots’

January 12th, 2026 6:38 PM

In an episode of The Barbara Gaines Show posted on Friday, former CBS’s Late Show host David Letterman was in old-man-yells-at-the-clouds mood as he lamented the impending cancellation of his old show and seethed over CBS News as now being run by “idiots” — ostensibly referring to Paramount Skydance chairman David Ellison and CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss — who’ve “eviscerated”…

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CBS Locates Expert to Argue Maduro's Not a 'Bloodthirsty Drug Dealer'

January 5th, 2026 2:42 PM

Sunday's 60 Minutes didn't air their controversial report on the Salvadoran CECOT prison, but they did make quick room for Scott Pelley to investigate President Trump's seizure of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. The story led with the expert Roger Carstens, a former "Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs" under Trump and Biden, who quibbled with the notion that Maduro was a "…

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Screw-Ups, Shutdowns, & Soros: Our Ten Most-Read Stories of 2025

December 31st, 2025 1:34 PM

2025 marked a year of arguably unparalleled success for the NewsBusters team seeing as how, along with chronicling the best and worst in daily and long-term liberal media bias, we helped see to a successful conclusion a decades-long fight to defund National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS. As you’ll see below in our top-ten list of the most read stories, you’ll see NPR come up along with the major…

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WORST OF 2025: The Craziest Analysis Award 

December 25th, 2025 9:00 AM

Can you imagine anyone trying to argue the media weren't deficient on the issue of Biden's cognitive decline?

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PBS Turns to Stelter to Address Bari Weiss & the 'Cancer Inside CBS'

December 24th, 2025 11:04 PM

When someone in the elitist media is accused of a pro-Trump bias, PBS News Hour won’t consider having on any conservative media critics (like NewsBusters) to discuss it. Instead, they routinely turn to CNN’s Brian Stelter to echo their thoughts on how the media should maintain a fierce anti-Trump bias.

Column: '60 Minutes' Offers Syrupy Minutes for the Left

December 24th, 2025 5:04 AM

CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi raged against the network’s Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss when she delayed her story on how the Trump administration deported illegal immigrants from Venezuela to a “notorious” prison in El Salvador. Weiss wanted more reporting and more rebuttal from the Trump administration in it.

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‘60 Minutes’ Fiasco Prompts Tightening of Standards, Procedures at CBS

December 24th, 2025 1:12 AM

Sharyn Alfonsi’s hack job of a CECOT feature for 60 Minutes, pulled due to what could be charitably described as deficient reporting, has triggered a firestorm within the elitist media. But that’s not all. The report has now also triggered an “overhaul” of standards and procedures at CBS and 60 Minutes.

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The Spiked ‘60 Minutes’ Piece on the Salvadoran Jail Was Quite Stupid

December 23rd, 2025 4:49 PM

On Monday night, the now-infamous 60 Minutes segment pulled by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss seemed to have self-deported and aired up in Canada on Global TV, one of its broadcast networks. With it now available to the masses (thanks to social media), we can now give it a full viewing and not a she-said, she-said between Weiss and correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. Spoiler alert: the piece…

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INTERESTING TIMES: CBS Evening News Reports ‘60 Minutes’ Kerfuffle

December 23rd, 2025 12:27 AM

The firestorm over the editorial decision made by CBS News to pull a 60 Minutes segment on migrant detentions at CECOT, the notorious Salvadoran prison, rages on. The controversy has now spilled over to the CBS Evening News, which aired a report on the growing scandal.

'60 Minutes' Leftists Wage Internal War on Bari Weiss Applying Brakes

December 22nd, 2025 11:12 AM

The 60 Minutes team at CBS has suffered a setback in its anti-Trump crusade, and it furiously leaked that story right into the newspapers. Reporter Sharyn Alfonsi assembled what we could guess was a typical hit piece on the “notorious” CECOT prison in El Salvador that temporarily held illegal migrant cause celebre Kilmar Abrego-Garcia.