How Bari Weiss Could Really Fix CBS

To make good on Weiss’s promises of reform, here are ten modest suggestions for topical news stories for 60 Minutes.

Todd Gregory, Erik Gregory | September 27, 2026

Bari Weiss, famously bullied out of her job at the New York Times for thoughtcrimes stemming from independent reasoning, has been at the helm of CBS News for one year.

Much in the way that X’s Elon Musk authorized journalists (Matt Taibbi and others) to publish the Twitter Files, exposing Twitter’s widespread censorship of conservatives and other truth-tellers during the regime of Jack Dorsey, Weiss promised to purge the hopelessly doctrinaire CBS of its longstanding biases, freeing the network from its ideological straitjacket.

One year into Weiss’s tenure, and facing an ongoing revolt from her progressive underlings, Weiss’s attempts at reform have seemingly hit a dead end.  Whereas Musk had the courage to air the dirty laundry of the organization he acquired, Weiss has demonstrated no such radical transparency so far.

To make good on Weiss’s promises of reform, here are ten modest suggestions for topical news stories for 60 Minutes, the flagship program of CBS News.  Each of these stories would be strictly factual in nature, eschewing the fabrications and lies of both commission and omission that were the hallmark of CBS for decades (see Dan Rather, Scott Pelley, Lesley Stahl, Margaret Brennan, Norah O’Donnell, et al.).

The Conviction of Karmelo Anthony for the Murder of Austin Metcalf — CBS quoted Karmelo’s racist black father that an “all-white” jury (the jury contained several racial minorities) convicted Karmelo.  In its news reporting, and to amplify racial unrest, CBS let the lie about the “all-white” jury stand without correction.  Own the journalistic deception by issuing a correction and a formal apology to the Metcalf family.

The Berlin Gay Pride Terror Attack — Remember the endless media coverage of anti-ICE agitator and lesbian Renee Good when she died?  Her life’s biography, her........

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