She's never been a reporter, and even in the kindest interpretation of her actions, it's starting to show.

Ok, so with charity she's a marginally qualified 150 million dollar aquihire? In journalism?

Are you actually arguing that she was a qualified choice for this role at CBS?

You’d have to know the qualifying criteria to know for sure.

I suspect she was hired at least in part because she would be willing to take the heat for stuff like this,

Her upward trajectory has been facilitated mainly through pleasing select silicon valley billionaires by echoing their views back to them in her ironically named The Free Press outlet, which they also helped found.

I suspect her bosses are very happy with who they hired. The chances that they now regret her are about 0%.

This really is the future of journalism. Just make content that a few deranged billionaires like and rise up and up and up and up. CBS doesn't have to care whether ordinary people like it. What matters is the asshole with billions of dollars.

I wouldn't exactly use James Bennet as a successful example here.

> most notably at Tablet

She is more or less an Israeli propaganda agent. She was hired at CBS because, after purchasing CBS from Zionist Shari Redstone, Zionist Larry Ellison and his son needed a reliable Zionist editor in chief. Weiss’ primary qualifications are her extremely pro Israeli career path.

Larry Ellison needed a woman like Weiss because he’s invested in Israel’s success. He’s both a close personal friend of Netanyahu and the number one private donor to the IDF. Netanyahu has declared US public perception of Israel as the 8th front of their war, and Ellison (with the help of Trump) is doing his part stateside.

Why we have so many powerful “Americans” exercising their power on behalf of a foreign country is the real discussion here.