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Barry Weiss's CBS Bunker and CNN Takeover
from Iran Forever, Belfast Riots, & College Commencement | The Tim Dillon Show #499 · #499
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Tim describes Barry Weiss allegedly hiding from her own staff in a secured suite at CBS after gutting 60 Minutes, and mocks the news that she is being given oversight of CNN as well.
- Barry Weiss has ensconced herself in a fortified area on the sixth floor of CBS, refusing to see staff like Dick Cheney in an undisclosed location.
- The CBS News editor-in-chief works from a secured locked suite isolated from the main newsroom following controversial staff cuts at 60 Minutes.
- Barry Weiss will soon be running CNN as well, after the Ellison family buys the network.
- Tim describes Barry as needing security guards to protect her from staff who might question what she's destroying.
- In less than a year, Barry has put herself in solitary confinement at CBS, unable to be in general population.
- The mark of a great boss is being afraid of your staff and ushered in and out like the president while ruining their lives.
- Because of her performance running CBS News from isolation, Barry Weiss is being elevated to oversee editorial at CNN.
- Tim questions which bunker Barry will use to run CNN—the one at CBS, or a new nuclear silo built offsite.
- CBS has started construction of an offsite missile silo where Barry Weiss will continue her work destroying both networks.