Connie Chung Slams Bari Weiss, Says Owners Ruined CBS News

Connie Chung slammed CBS executives, including Bari Weiss and David Ellison, calling their “greedy” leadership responsible for the network’s decline.

“They’ve hired this—[she laughs]—I don’t know what to call Bari Weiss. I just don’t know,” Chung said. (Photo: Harvard Graduate School of Business) 

The former CBS News anchor said the network’s uncertain future “distresses [her] terribly” on Thursday’s episode of the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast.

She added that she no longer watches the network: “I can’t,” Tess Patton reported for The Wrap.

“The paradigm has completely changed in news, and we have so much opinion,” she said. “The truth doesn’t have value anymore.” As a consumer herself, Chung said it is hard to find “good old-fashioned facts.”

She added: “It distresses me so terribly. CBS is a whole different organization than the one I worked for. CBS has now been taken over, thanks to greedy owners—Shari Redstone, partnering with David Ellison.”

“Their greed has caused the venerable CBS to actually disassemble, to crash into crumbles,” she added. When it came to CBS News’ new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, Chung said she did not even have the words to describe her or predict her impact.

“They’ve hired this—[she laughs]—I don’t know what to call Bari Weiss. I just don’t know,” she said, before Maury Povich suggested it remains to be seen how Weiss’ leadership will affect the brand. “It’s not a big ‘we’ll see,’” Chung fired back. “As if she could possibly restore…”