Good Luck to Bari Weiss at CBS

The appointment of Bari Weiss to be editor in chief of CBS News has people freaking out — “like, literally freaking out,” per a staffer at the organization quoted by The Independent. “People are using words like depressing and doomsday,” said another.

So what, exactly, is all the fuss about?

Weiss gained national attention in 2020 when she resigned from the New York Times, which had become a hostile environment. She wrote as a disillusioned liberal rather than as a doctrinaire conservative, but that was enough to earn her the ire of colleagues in a newsroom that could not tolerate any deviation from progressive...