All right, have you noticed that not only does Benjamin Netanyahu dog walk Donald Trump,

it appears he also dog walks Barry Weiss of CBS News.

She allowed Benjamin Netanyahu to pick his own person to interview him. Pop this up. Dylan Byers has

Scoop, Paramount Leadership, has had informal discussions about changing Barry Weiss's mandate at CBS News

and eventually CNN in ways that would give her less control over TV. And joining me to discuss this is

Adam Johnson. He is the co-host of the

Citations Needed Podcast, an author of How to Sell a Genocide, The Media's Complicity in the Destruction

of Gaza. Adam, thank you for joining me today. Thank you so much for having me on.

Yes, what is your response to this Barry Weiss news?

I'm a little skeptical of it.

Barry Weiss was brought in for the explicit purposes of being an ideological enforcer for

the Ellison family.

So the idea that they would withdraw her power, it could be because of pushback from

internally from reporters. I mean, obviously there's a lot of the people there. They just lost

Anderson Cooper over this. View it as illegitimate that they've completely destroyed the

firewall between ownership and editorial independence, such as that it existed under Sherry Redstone,

who herself intervened three separate times because they thought 60 Minutes' coverage was too

critical of Israel. And then she sold it to the Ellison family, who, of course, is the largest

private donor to the IDF. And they bring in Barry Weiss, who obviously has a history of being

staunchly pro-Israel.

But there was a lot of pushback internally, I know, from several reports that she had kind of gone too far or kind of flew too close to the sun in terms of editorial intervention.

And, of course, they're using 60 minutes effectively to suck up to Trump. So they'll approve the much more important prize, which is Paramount,

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