In what is going to hopefully be the primary of many welcome adjustments at CBS Information on this Bari Weiss period, senior vp for requirements and practices Claudia Milne introduced Thursday she can be leaving the corporate after having performed main roles in what our associates on the New York Publish famous have been “a number of the community’s current controversial, woke reporting” lately.
For reference, the Publish’s indefatigable media reporter Alexandra Steigrad defined the requirements and practices unit at information organizations are “chargeable for the ethical, moral and authorized implications of CBS programming,” so her departure marked the “the primary senior government to depart the community since Weiss” was named editor-in-chief on October 6.
Steigard, as at all times, got here armed with sources. She discovered one who stated Milne “was a part of the woke mob at CBS Information” and thus “Bari’s first scalp” as she seeks to maneuver CBS again in direction of the middle.
Steigard reminded readers of Milne’s previous controversies, most notably her order in 2023 that CBS Information journalists have been to not make “any point out” of the truth that the Covenant Christian College shooter in Nashville, Tennessee was transgender.
We famous on the time that this was proof they’d relatively kowtow to the model information mob on the far-left GLAAD than the info from regulation enforcement.
Steigrad did make extra information later within the piece by revealing one other act of wokeness from Milne was her alleged choice to have helped stop “former CBS Information correspondent Catherine Herridge from interviewing Musk in 2023.”
“Herridge stated on X that she’d had the uncommon alternative to interview Musk after his high-profile buy of the social media platform…However the interview alternative landed with a thud, Herridge recounted on X, as a result of Musk wished to do it reside. CBS execs stated they’d relatively cross…than maintain it reside as a result of they have been apprehensive about what Musk was going to say,” she added.
And within the third exhibit of Milne’s far-left angle, Steigrad stated she “performed a component was final yr’s criticism of ‘CBS Mornings’ co-host Tony Dokoupil after he grilled writer Ta-Nehisi Coates over his one-sided polemic in opposition to Israel, which the author in comparison with an ‘apartheid’ state.”
Ah, so she was a part of the woke mob that demanded a wrestle session in opposition to Dokoupil for the crime of asking Coates why he appeared to be unaware of historical past and, to be blunt, have an issue with Jews.
On all three counts, Milne seems like somebody unfit to be a part of any push to maneuver CBS again towards a spot of upper rankings, increased high quality journalism, and better ranges of public belief.
