If It Doesn’t Challenge Power, It Isn’t Journalism

If It Doesn’t Challenge Power, It Isn’t Journalism

Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive People are having a grand time writing the obituary for CBS News under Bari Weiss. Six months in, they say, the ratings are in freefall—flagship broadcasts bleeding viewers, historic lows, the whole thing a slow-motion collapse. Maybe. But six months of ratings don’t prove a newsroom overhaul has failed. They prove something far more uncomfortable: that it’s underway. Because if you want to understand wh…