Students Stand up for Journalism

Bari Weiss will not be lecturing UCLA students on journalism on February 27th—largely because the campus recognized she has no fundamental grasp of how the profession actually works.

The controversial CBS News chief’s scheduled Daniel Pearl lecture was abruptly canceled following intense backlash. While criticism from veteran journalists played a role, it was the students themselves who easily saw through her executive facade.

Since taking the reins under David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance, Weiss's approach to the hallowed CBS News legacy has demonstrated a glaring ignorance of basic editorial standards. To the aspiring reporters at UCLA, the damage she has done to programs like "60 Minutes" and "The CBS Evening News" is a textbook example of what not to do in a newsroom.

The student body saw exactly what was happening:

Weiss Pulled stories simply because they were unfavorable to the Trump administration violated the very core of the objective reporting they study in class.

By blatantly promoting a political agenda, Weiss showed she treats a news organization like a public relations firm, rather than an independent watchdog.

To the students, it was painfully obvious that the person tapped to deliver a prestigious lecture on press freedom had absolutely no clue what real investigative journalism entails.