Wonkette: Bari Weiss Will Capitalize On First Loser Town Hall By Doing MORE Loser Town Halls!

[AStern]

It turns out that Bari Weiss is bad at everything. Shockingly, being an uninteresting contrarian with no nose for news, zero discernible personality, and a perpetual stick up your ass about all the things in the beginning of this sentence don’t quite equip you to be the editor-in-chief of CBS News, the network that used to be home to Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow.

Oh, and she isn’t very good on TV, which sucks, since it turns out all she really wants is to be on TV.

The hilariously lousy ratings for her “town hall” with JonBenet Scamsey or the Widow of Chucky or whatever you want to call the equally un-compelling Er*ka K*rk have apparently convinced Weiss that when you’re running a network into the ground, the only proper course of action is to keep digging. So she’s going to do more “town halls,” with equally un-compelling guests, about subjects nobody who matters cares about. They are, on the other hand, the kinds of subjects hopelessly online weirdos like Bari Weiss care about. So look forward to more ratings bonanzas!

https://www.wonkette.com/p/bari-weiss-will-capitalize-on-first

The bolded text is exactly how I see her.

[newdeal2]

1. This is a dumb strategy regardless

People who want this type of stuff already get better content on podcasts or social media. CBS is not gonna beat them.

[dalton99a]

2. Practice makes perfect. Perfectly dumb

[jls4561]

3. Well, now that portion of the audience that wants to see Chia Pet and Sham-wow commercials knows where to tune in.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Gonna suck to be a CBS stockholder

While other networks will be quite pleased to take their advertisers.

[Intractable]

5. This was never about ratings and profits. It's about destroying CBS as a purveyor of news and truth.

[dem4decades]

6. She's doing a great job at CBS, I've stopped watching all CBS News shows, including the local news.

So instead of me watching some local CBS news I've stopped watching that too. Great job Bari.

( I do still watch the lovely Jane Pauley on CBS Morning; they haven't screwed that up yet and will watch as long as Jane is on.)

[underpants]

7. Giving the 12 people who watched the first one what they want!

Evan Hurst can write.