Topic: Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss
has 56.6% among topics.
BS Score: 3.9%.
Articles analyzed: 4.
Words analyzed: 8,444.
Analyzed articles
Raw Story
- By Tom Boggioni
- 6/26/2026, 11:20 AM
Negativity Bias 72.8% - Unattributed Quote 62.7% - Biased Writer Voice 47.3%
Reports that embattled CBS News head Bari Weiss is searching for a sympathetic ear among journalists for an interview to clear her name have some in the executive suites in a bit of a panic. According to media watchdog Status, Weiss is eager to launch a media counter-offensive. She's been in talks with the New York Times' Michael Barbaro... more
The Independent
- By Tom Murray
- 6/4/2026, 12:35 PM
Negativity Bias 41.1% - Ad Hominem 25.9% - Biased Writer Voice 25.7%
Jimmy Kimmel leapt to the defence of 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley on Wednesday after the veteran journalist was fired from CBS. Pelley’s departure came after he reportedly accused CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the long-running news program. Weiss, who founded the “anti-woke” media outlet The Free Press, was... more
the Guardian
- By Margaret Sullivan
- 6/4/2026, 11:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 61.6% - Negativity Bias 32.1% - Halo Effect 20%
Journalism is supposed to speak truth to power, as when Walter Cronkite reported, on the CBS airwaves, that the Vietnam war was not progressing as the US government was claiming, or when the Washington Post revealed, through its Watergate reporting, that the Nixon administration was corrupt. Truth to power. Or, as the New York Times... more
AP News
- By Hannah Schoenbaum
- 6/3/2026, 3:07 AM
Negativity Bias 64.6% - Quote-first Misdirection 21.8% - Unattributed Quote 16.5%
CBS News fired longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, a day after he reportedly said Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was “murdering the show” and accused its new producer of having “slender qualifications” for the job. The move deepened the turmoil at the nation’s most influential TV news program, days after a leadership... more