I’ve been reflecting (lightly) on the time when Tina Brown took over The New Yorker to “disrupt it” and lead into greater glory in the New Century.Major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall telecast Saturday, moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring an interview with Erika Kirk.
— Brian Steinberg (@bristei) December 14, 2025
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expandhttps://t.co/qLmAAFPzdt
Full disclosure: I’ve become something of a New Yorker fanboi, though I set aside Susan Glasser (way too establishment for me), and focus mainly on the cover illustrations, the cartoons, and the crosswords. Occasionally the articles, which are often good and sometimes a waste of time and print. So it goes.
Anyway, I only heard by reports what a terrible job Tina Brown did with the magazine. She tried to destroy everything about it that made people want to read it. Remember when Arianna Huffington was actually publicly involved in the Huffington Post? It was those days. The celebration of celebrity editors; it something. Maybe Woodstein started that with Ben Bradley…? Anyway…
Brown flamed out fast and The New Yorker recovered, and is now celebrating 100 years without notably recalling her tenure. But Bari Weiss is stuck in a time warp, and wants to be “disruptive” long after Elmo and Palantir and AI have disabused us of that “wisdom.”
I’m not carrying any water for CBS. I stopped watching them for news when Cronkite was still alive. And Weiss may crash CBS News. Good riddance. I have no use for “network news.” Haven’t since Vietnam (which, for me, is still shorthand for “the war.”). But if it falls, it will be because the collapse started many decades ago, and not because of Bari Weiss.
As I recall, Tina Brown cost the magazine a lot of subscribers. Surest way to be shown the door I can think of. Just look at Trump….
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