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MAGA-Curious CBS Boss Forced Into Humiliating Admission
The Daily Beast • • nation
Key Points:
- Bari Weiss, CEO of The Free Press and head of CBS News, faced embarrassment after her opinion site inaccurately claimed that Democrat Abdul El-Sayed gave his victory speech entirely in Arabic, a statement later corrected and the related video removed.
- The Free Press initially posted that El-Sayed spoke in Arabic during his victory speech, but he actually used mostly English with a few Arabic phrases; the site issued a correction and apologized for the error and the video's tone.
- The Free Press also made another mistake when Deputy Editor Oliver Wiseman incorrectly referred to Iowa Senator-elect Josh Turek as a "Special Olympics athlete," later correcting that Turek is a Paralympian wheelchair basketball player.
- Weiss’s dual role at CBS and The Free Press has been controversial, with her overhaul of CBS’s 60 Minutes leading to staff departures and her site facing scrutiny for errors in political coverage.
