Well, the Bari Weiss era at CBS News has begun.
Officially, of course, it began when she arrived and was installed as the reigning Queen of the News division of the Tiffany Network, but coronation ceremonies are one thing, and the beginning of the reign is another in the real world.
Whiners are already leaking that Bari was late for her first staff meeting and that she dropped an F-bomb. I assume that I am supposed to be shocked at her disrespect for the talent, but I will contain my outrage for the moment.
But the most important signal that Bari is in charge of policy is that she is making personnel changes, and important ones at that. While the ordinary viewer may fixate on who sits in the anchor seats, what matters most is who controls what goes on the air and comes out of their mouths.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 17, 2025
Boom! One of the key people who set the rules for what could and could not be said at CBS News is GONE. Standards & Practices boss Claudia Milne left the building yesterday, and I say “good riddance.”
The head of CBS News’ standards and practices unit — who presided over some of the network’s recent controversial, woke reporting — is out as new boss Bari Weiss looks to bring more balance to the left-leaning network.
Claudia Milne, who ran the division responsible for the moral, ethical and legal implications of CBS programming, is the first senior executive to leave the network since Weiss arrived as editor in chief earlier this month.
Although Milne’s job had been “slowly phased out,” a CBS source called her departure “significant.”
“She was part of the woke mob at CBS News. It shows an editorial shift in how CBS will operate,” the person said, speculating that “this is Bari’s first scalp.”
I don’t know if “scalp” is the right word, but I do know that Milne would probably prevent it from being uttered on air out of concerns that it might offend two-spirit indigenous people.
Milne, who oversaw her unit since 2021, played a pivotal role in a host of eyebrow-raising decisions. Those ranged from coverage of the transgender Nashville, Tenn., shooter and spiking an Elon Musk interview to the network’s recent reporting on the Israel-Hamas conflict, among other issues.
As previously reported by The Post, in 2023, Milne and then-news division president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews banned staffers from using the word “transgender” when reporting on the Nashville shooter.
The decision sparked outrage at the network because police working the case had identified the killer, Audrey Hale, as a transgender woman. Sources said Ciprian-Matthews and Milne spent 15 minutes telling staffers not to report Hale’s identity because it may not be relevant to the shooter’s motive.
You can see why she had to go. Failure to report Audrey Hale’s status as a transgender person stripped the story of its most important fact: the motive of the killer. She went on that rampage BECAUSE she was transgender; it was not an incidental and hence unimportant tidbit.
Milne was also one of the executives who blocked former CBS News correspondent Catherine Herridge from interviewing Musk in 2023, The Post has learned. Herridge declined to comment.
Herridge said on X that she’d had the rare opportunity to interview Musk after his high-profile purchase of the social media platform. He was in the news in late 2022 for his release of the “Twitter Files” to a handful of tech and media journalists.
But the interview opportunity landed with a thud, Herridge recounted on X, because Musk wanted to do it live. CBS execs said they would rather pass on the session than hold it live because they were worried about what Musk was going to say, according to the former investigative reporter.
“I’m thinking, ‘Isn’t that the point of journalism?’ You don’t know what the person’s going to say,” an exasperated Herridge said.
Herridge, you may recall, was unceremoniously booted from CBS and had her confidential notes withheld from her–an egregious example of how corrupt CBS had become. She eventually was able to recover them, but God knows if they were scraped for confidential information.
CBS became a cesspool of woke and a propaganda outlet for the left. Let’s hope Bari can save it.
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