NCS’s conservative pundit Scott Jennings has been accused of “kissing up” to CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, who may probably be his future boss if Paramount’s deal with Warner Bros. Discovery is permitted.
On Monday (March 2), Jennings weighed in on a Semafor article about Weiss’ feedback on the U.S. assaults on Iran. The article claims that a number of CBS newsroom staffers had been “frustrated” with Weiss after she reposted a clip of Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad slamming feedback made by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Jennings centered on a selected quote from the article, which learn, “At times, the CBS editor-in-chief has seemed to be more in touch with the changing geopolitical dynamics in Trump’s Washington than other international journalists in the newsroom.”
The quote was first shared on X by Jewish Insider editor-in-chief and Fox News analyst Josh Kaurshaar, which Jennings later quote-tweeted and added his personal ideas.
“The person running a newsroom in touch with where the news is being made, and with half the country that is constantly neglected? sounds like … a good thing, @bariweiss!” Jennings wrote.
Social media customers reacted to the put up, with many accusing the MAGA-friendly pundit of sucking up to Weiss amid a possible merger of NCS and CBS News.
On February 26, Netflix introduced it wouldn’t be matching Paramount’s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, saying the deal was “no longer financially attractive.” The Paramount deal covers all WBD properties, together with the linear networks, which means NCS and CBS News could be beneath the identical possession.
“Haha kissing up to the future boss,” wrote one X consumer.
“Great- Why don’t you go work for her?” stated one other.
“Scott Jennings and Bari Weiss will soon work for the same company,” one other added.
Another wrote, “Preemptively….” alongside a GIF of somebody buttering up a cake.
“The public ass kissing is a bit much,” stated one commenter.
Others referred to as out Jennings for sharing Iran struggle propaganda from the Trump administration. Over the weekend, Jennings tweeted, “Senior Trump administration officials telling me that credible intelligence indicated Iran planned preemptive missile strikes against US military targets in the region, and against civilian targets as well. Failure to act would’ve resulted in mass US casualties.”
This contradicted NCS’s own report, printed that very same day, which acknowledged Trump’s claims of Iran constructing missiles that “could soon reach the American homeland” had by no means been supported by U.S. intelligence or Pentagon officers.
According to the Status publication, a number of NCS staffers had been “frustrated, to put it mildly,” that Jennings shared nameless claims that contradicted the community’s personal reporting.
Last month, longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Anderson Cooper introduced he could be leaving the show on the finish of its present broadcast season. Cooper, who anchors his personal present on NCS, acknowledged that he determined to depart this system so as to spend extra time together with his younger youngsters.
However, according to Status, one supply stated Cooper wasn’t aligned with the “rightward direction” of CBS News beneath Weiss and Paramount CEO David Ellison. Cooper stays at NCS, which may quickly be beneath the identical possession as CBS News.
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