WGA Tells CBS News Staff to Hold Responses to Bari Weiss Memo Pending More Info [View all]
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The Writers Guild of America East, the union that represents a portion of CBS News staffers, urged its members to hold responses to a memo sent by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss until it gets more information on its purpose, signifying an early tension point between the newly installed editor and the staff she's set to lead.
Weiss on Friday asked staffers to submit a memo by Tuesday outlining "how you spend your working hours -- and, ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." The goal of the email, she said, was to get their views on "what's working; what's broken or substandard; and how we can be better."
"Please be blunt -- it will help me greatly," she wrote. Weiss took hold of CBS News on Monday after David Ellison's Paramount completed its $150 million acquisition of The Free Press, Weiss' "anti-woke" news operation.
"We are aware that Bari Weiss sent an email asking CBS employees to provide information about their jobs and feedback about CBS News. Many of you have expressed concern to us about the purpose of the email, and we share those concerns," it said in a memo to its members, according to Variety. "That is why we sent the company an immediate demand to provide information about the email by Monday. We suggest that you refrain from responding until we are able to share the information that we receive so that you can make an informed decision by the Tuesday deadline."
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