A small — and likely too late — nod to reality at CBS.

FILE – This file photo shows the CBS logo at their broadcast center in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

You may not know the name Bari Weiss. But she is quite well known in the world of political punditry.

Bari Weiss is a self-described “centrist liberal.” Until July 2020, she was an opinion writer for The New York Times. She was hired sometime after the 2016 presidential election in a rare moment of self-reflection at the Times. Following Donald Trump’s surprise upset of Hillary Clinton, some in upper management at the Grey Lady were momentarily concerned that they had so badly misread the nation they were supposed to be covering.

Ms. Weiss was hired as something of a hall monitor at the Times. It was her job to see what the entrenched staffers at the paper – blinded as they were and are by their condescending elitist liberalism – could not see.

She was not loved by her coworkers.

Bari Weiss made news in July 2020 when she very publicly resigned from the Times. In her resignation letter she wrote:

“…a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”

When that story broke and I read Ms. Weiss’s resignation letter and saw that passage, I said in this space that I had long been looking for a way to:

“…concisely describe the smug, condescending, elitist leftism that has taken over substantially all of American journalism. I now have it.”

Ms. Weiss went on to establish The Free Press, a website that she just sold to Paramount – the corporate parent of CBS – for $150 million. Concurrent with that deal, Ms. Weiss has been given the job of Editor-in-Chief of CBS News.

CBS News isn’t about to become FOX News. As we say, Bari Weiss calls herself a “centrist liberal.” She is no fan of Donald Trump – though she has on multiple occasions defended him from patently false and vicious attacks from the Left and in the media.

She is also no fan of DEI and wokeness, having written numerous pieces calling out those intellectually bankrupt ideologies. She is a committed Zionist and supporter of Israel and has outspokenly condemned the antisemitism that increasingly pervades the American Left.

In other words, Bari Weiss marks something of a throwback to the regulation issue liberal journalists of the 1960s and ‘70s, who at least tried to maintain a semblance of objectivity. That crowd has died off to be replaced by today’s hard-left activists who now try (and fail) to pose as journalists.

The newsroom at CBS is filled to the rafters with such posers. And even though Bari Weiss is approvably both female and liberal, they are aghast. That alone tells you just how far-gone CBS and its legacy peers are.

It’s almost certainly too late to save CBS News (the same for ABC, NBC, et.al.). But credit to Paramount for catching a whiff of the grim reality now facing the legacy network news business –  and at least trying.