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Bari Weiss Is The Symptom

The policy, in brief, is to largely avoid using the word "lie." As NPR's national security correspondent Mary Louise Kelly said Wednesday, the Oxford English Dictionary defines a "lie" as "'a false statement made with intent to deceive.' Intent being the key word there — without the ability to peer into Donald Trump's head, I can't tell you what his intent was. I can tell you what he said and how that squares — or doesn't — with fact.

>"...without the ability to peer into Donald Trump's head, I can't tell you what his intent was."

And the thing is, that version of a reporter hasn't really existed for a very long time. I think in a lot of ways, we're all haunted by the ghost of Watergate, where for a brief moment, something very real happened.

Unbeknownst to Trump, sources told The Independent, Weiss was actually on location for the interview and quickly approached the president to introduce herself. "He was so happy to see her and she was so excited to meet him, they both leaned in and exchanged kisses on the cheek," one source said.

In a 1996 widely recounted interview with Ortiz on the TV news program Nightline, American journalist Cokie Roberts contested Ortiz's claim that an American was among her captors. Roberts implied that Ortiz was lying about the entire episode, despite the fact that Ortiz later won a lawsuit against a Guatemalan general she accused in the case.[19] It was later revealed that Patton Boggs, the law firm of Roberts' brother Tom Boggs, was paid by the Guatemalan government to promote a more positive image of the regime, which was widely criticized internationally for human rights abuses.[20][21][22] Patton Boggs ran a smear campaign against Ortiz.[23]

Weiss has been under a microscope since her arrival in October, after Paramount bought her conservative-opinion site The Free Press for $150 million. Since taking the reins, she has pressed programs such as "CBS Evening News" and "60 Minutes" to give more time to Trump administration officials and other leaders. The nascent tenure of Dokoupil on "CBS Evening News" has been marred by awkward segments such as one that celebrated U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio or others that downplayed the severity of changes in vaccine protocol, the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol and the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent.

Weiss, a conservative opinion provocateur who founded the right-leaning site The Free Press, joined Paramount Skydance last year after the company purchased her outlet for $150 million.

"I don't know her, but I hear she's a great person," the president gushed about Bari Weiss, the "anti-woke" founder of the neoconservative site The Free Press and recently installed editor-in-chief of the network.