This absolves Weiss of way too much. She's not some junior person here, a mere lacky or functionary

I’m not absolving her of anything. She is a willing participant in the destruction of CBS News.

But I think you give her too much credit. Sure, she worked for WSJ and NYT. And if you squint your eyes just right, you can probably make out an argument that she’s qualified to head up a large news organization. But she’s firmly in the MAGA “alternative facts” camp. She has no compunctions about lying to support her political views.

She was hired by Ellison to do one thing: get CBS News off Trump’s back. He didn’t have to tell her to do that. She’s simply moulding the news to her vision - a vision that is aligned with Ellison’s. A MAGA vision.

If you want to make her a mob boss, she’s at best a third string boss in charge of one small piece. She absolutely answers to Ellison. And Ellison is simply paying his protection money to the real mob boss - Trump. He’s paying that protection by hiring someone who won’t question Trump.

That makes her closer to hit man than mob boss in my book.

-Peter

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