As CBS News continues to struggle in the ratings, a bombshell report in the New York Post cites editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and network president Tom Cibrowski’s different visions for programming as partly to blame.
“They are an odd couple to me,” one CBS insider told the outlet. “There doesn’t seem to be a lot of synergies between them.”
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