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   Despite CBS announcing that it would not allow live fact-checking during   
   the debate, the moderators repeatedly fact-checked Vance and even cut   
   off his mic at one point.   
      
   CBS DEBATE MODERATORS PUMMELED FOR ‘OBNOXIOUS’ FACT-CHECKING OF VANCE:   
   ‘A TERRIBLE LOOK'   
      
   Brennan, host of "Face The Nation," has particularly irked conservatives   
   for her combative exchanges with Republicans, including Vance and   
   Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Her reputation has taken such a hit that   
   she won this year's "Liberal Hack Tournament," the annual viral   
   NCAA-style contest run by the Ruthless podcast.   
      
   Norah O'Donnell Margaret Brennan   
   CBS anchors Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan drew blowback for how   
   they handled moderating the vice-presidential debate. (Anna   
   Moneymaker/Getty Images)   
      
   CBS News faced internal strife when far-left staffers fumed over "CBS   
   Mornings" co-host Tony Dokoupil for daring to challenge anti-Israel   
   author Ta-Nehisi Coates in a tense interview last year. Things got so   
   bad that CBS News leadership at the time scolded the Jewish anchor and   
   forced him to meet with the network’s in-house Race and Culture Unit   
   following complaints, saying his interview did not meet the company’s   
   "editorial standards" (noteworthy as Weiss and Ellison are both staunch   
   supporters of Israel).   
      
   Just last month, CBS News anchor John Dickerson said that the motive   
   behind the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk   
   remained "elusive," despite reports about the alleged assassin's leftist   
   ideology.   
      
   CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSIN'S MOTIVES REMAIN 'ELUSIVE,' CBS NEWS ANCHOR CLAIMS   
      
   Weiss' meteoric rise to the top of one of the storied legacy media   
   institutions is leaving liberal journalists incensed. Weiss famously   
   quit The New York Times in 2020, writing a scathing resignation letter   
   in which she detailed bullying by colleagues in what she called an   
   "illiberal environment." In 2022, she launched The Free Press, which has   
   largely been ostracized by the cultural left for its reporting that   
   challenges DEI, gender ideology and media narratives against Israel in   
   its war with Hamas.   
      
   Bari Weiss   
   Bari Weiss announced on Monday that she is officially editor-in-chief of   
   CBS News.  (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Uber, X and The Free Press)   
      
   Staffers who spoke with Fox News Digital are open to "fresh ideas" Weiss   
   may bring to CBS News, although she still has her detractors at the   
   network, particularly after her first appearance on the network's   
   editorial call Tuesday, where she made the rallying cry, "Let's do the   
   f---ing news."   
      
   "I feel like the people that wrote her off probably are further in their   
   corner," one staffer told Fox News Digital. "The people that are open to   
   her, I think, are still open."   
      
   Many of her liberal critics in the media claim Weiss is a "conservative"   
   who will bend the network's knee to Trump, even though she has openly   
   criticized him on her "Honestly" podcast. Some also believe her   
   appointment by Ellison was part of an arrangement Paramount made with   
   Trump to resolve his lawsuit.   
      
   CBS News staffers say they're   
   Paramount CEO David Ellison controls the newly formed company.  (Charly   
   Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)   
      
   Status newsletter author Oliver Darcy, who helped lead the charge to   
   oust CNN CEO Chris Licht when he attempted to reform the liberal cable   
   network, has criticized Ellison’s move to put Weiss in charge.   
      
   "Ellison vowed not to politicize Paramount — yet his first big move at   
   CBS News is a major bet on Bari Weiss, one of the most polarizing   
   figures in media," Darcy began his newsletter Wednesday night. "Weiss,   
   the stridently pro-Israel, proudly anti-'woke' culture warrior, has   
   built her brand on polarizing political commentary — supposedly the type   
   of material Ellison signaled to reporters that he wishes to run away from."   
      
   CBS News did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for   
   comment.   
      
   Fox News Digital’s Kristine Parks and Lindsay Kornick contributed to   
   this report.   
      
   Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips   
   can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.   
      
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