CBS Shuts Down News Radio Amid Layoffs
The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
CBS News Radio's shutdown is a sad but necessary call. After pulling in just $67,000 in February, the seemingly out-of-date service was clearly impossible to sustain. Bari Weiss is modernizing a newsroom that's been losing ground to ABC and NBC for years, and cutting dead weight to invest in digital growth is exactly the right move. The news business is changing fast, and CBS has to change with it or get left behind.
Establishment-critical narrative
Paying $150 million for Bari Weiss' The Free Press while gutting a total of 160 jobs and killing a century-old radio division is a terrible trade. That money alone could've kept those employees working for a decade. Coming after Weiss pulled a fully vetted 60 Minutes segment critical of Trump — handing the administration veto power over CBS reporting — shows this isn't modernization, but an ideological overhaul designed to serve the Ellison family's business and political interests.
