Tony Dokoupil Is the Face of the Bari Weiss Revolution at CBS News. Will He Survive It?
Others see all the angst around Weiss as a little hysterical. One reporter who’s fond of her calls it “Bari derangement syndrome.” To her defenders inside CBS, she’s a well-meaning if naive liberal whose errors are borne more out of inexperience than malice. She may have been out of place amid the progressive paroxysm that engulfed The New York Times in 2020, but she’s hardly MAGA. The CBS journalist tells me that Weiss often praises teams for tough coverage of the Trump administration, and has described certain Trump policies as “insane.” There might be a little “Tony derangement syndrome” at play as well. The clips that have gone painfully viral belie the reality that the Evening News, on any given night, is a fairly anodyne broadcast. A recent episode mixed straightforward reports on airport delays and the Iran war with some elder-millennial cringe. During a segment on the death of Chuck Norris, Dokoupil reported the late action star inspired “some of the funniest memes on social media,” including: “When Chuck Norris slices onions, the onions …
