Bari Weiss, the contrarian Substacker turned editor-in-chief of CBS News, appears ready to hollow out or eliminate the outlet’s standards and practices team, claiming that they have “too much power.”

After all, who needs all those stuffed suits with their mumblings about “ethics” and “the law”? Don’t they know they’re obsolete in this brave new era?

CBS’s head of standards and practices, Claudia Milne, quit last month, because why would you stick around for this? Milne’s goodbye note to her colleagues was laced with subtle criticism about the collapse of CBS into a conservative mouthpiece.

“I believe our role as journalists is to hold the powerful to account,” she wrote. “We are here to question and challenge our political leaders on behalf of our audiences, Republican or Democrat, libe

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