Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News Highlight

She has tried to expand the political leanings of CBS’s audience, an aim that many in the industry are skeptical of. “The likelihood that you’re going to gain anyone who is more to the right, who is more MAGA, is a fool’s errand,” one senior television executive told me. “Those people are spoken for. What you’re more likely to do is offend the people that do watch you.” But Weiss believes that whatever pushback she’s faced inside CBS has more to do with how she’s reimagining its approach to journalism than with any changes she’s making to its politics.