from
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bari-weiss-brian-stelter-world-has-gone-mad-cnn

(After a stormy three-year stint as a Times opinion editor, Weiss has
thrived as an independent journalist. Her site Common Sense has
published stories and op-eds addressing illiberalism in colleges and
schools, cancel culture, free speech, transgenderism, and other
hot-button topics that she says major publications like the Times are
scared to tackle. - She was the one who revealled how biased the NYT had
become in the 2016 election.)

Bari Weiss tells Brian Stelter how 'the world has gone mad,' lists
'people who work at' CNN as a cause
Ex-New York Times journalist warns of corporate wokeness in media
industry: 'What happens is a kind of internal self-censorship'
Brian FloodBy Brian Flood , David Rutz | Fox News

Former New York Times journalist Bari Weiss confronted CNN’s Brian
Stelter about his network’s coverage of the COVID-19 lab leak theory
when listing examples of why the world has gone mad during Sunday’s
edition of "Reliable Sources."

Weiss has written that many Americans "feel the world has gone mad," so
the left-wing CNN host asked her what she meant by that comment.

Brian Stelter was confronted by ex-New York Times journalist Bari Weiss
over CNN’s coverage.

"Where can I start? Well, when you have the chief reporter on the beat
of COVID for The New York Times talking about how questioning or
pursuing the question of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad.

When you're not able to say out loud and in public there are
differences between men and women, the world has gone mad.

When we’re not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting and it is
bad and that silence is not violence, but violence is violence, the
world has gone mad," Weiss said.

"When you're not able to say the Hunter Biden laptop is a story worth
pursuing, the world has gone mad.

When, in the name of progress, young school children, as young as
kindergarten, are being separated in public schools because of their
race, and that is called progress instead of segregation, the world has
gone mad. There are dozens of examples."

BARI WEISS CHALLENGES BRIAN STELTER ON NY TIMES UPROAR OVER COTTON
OP-ED: DID IT REALLY PUT 'LIVES IN DANGER?'

Stelter then asked, "Who's the people stopping the conversation?"

Weiss responded with a jab at CNN.

"People who work at networks, frankly, like the one I'm speaking on
right now, to say it was racist to investigate the lab leak theory,"
Weiss said.

It was unclear who Weiss was referring to with her remark, although the
narrative that the coronavirus may have leaked from a Wuhan lab was
widely ridiculed by CNN and other media outlets before gaining
mainstream credence this year. CNN medical contributor Dr. Leana Wen
remarked in June that any investigation of the lab theory shouldn't lead
to anti-Asian discrimination.

Bari Weiss criticized her former outlet, the New York Times, during an
appearance on CNN.
Bari Weiss criticized her former outlet, the New York Times, during an
appearance on CNN.
Stelter, who typically defends his network at all costs and spent much
of 2021 downplaying journalism ethics violations made by embattled
colleague Chris Cuomo, wanted to know which of his co-workers Weiss was
referring to.

"Who said that at CNN? When you say ‘allowed,’ it’s a provocative thing
to say," Stelter said. "You say we're not allowed to talk about these
things but they’re all over the Internet ... I've heard about every
story that you've mentioned. So, I’m just suggesting, of course people
are allowed to cover whatever they want to cover."

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Weiss fired back, "But you and I both know that it would be delusional
to claim otherwise that touching your finger to an increasing number of
subjects that have been deemed third rail by the mainstream institutions
and increasingly by some of the tech companies will lead to reputational
damage, perhaps you losing your job, your children sometimes being
demonized as well, so what happens is a kind of internal self-censorship."

BARI WEISS RIPS NEW YORK TIMES' ACTIVIST JOURNALISTS WHO TREAT THE PAPER
LIKE A 'HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA'

Noting his question about who wasn't allowing conversation, the
Washington Free Beacon's Aaron Sibarium suggested to Stelter he look at
Yale Law School administrators who recently implied to a student that
his membership in the conservative Federalist Society could threaten his
legal career.

Weiss told Stelter that she regularly saw this happen at the Times. She
famously quit the paper's opinion section in 2020 with a scathing
resignation letter, where she detailed bullying by left-wing colleagues
in an "illiberal environment." Weiss detailed a toxic work environment
in the letter and said "showing up for work as a centrist at an American
newspaper should not require bravery."

SEVERAL NEW YORK TIMES STAFFERS AGREED WITH BARI WEISS' SCATHING
RESIGNATION LETTER, REPORT CLAIMS

Weiss continued her criticism of Times journalists on Sunday.

"People said to themselves, ‘Why should I die on that hill?’" she said.
"’Why should I take the three or four weeks that it takes to smuggle
through an op-ed that doesn’t suit the conventional narrative? I might
as well commission the 5,000th op-ed saying Donald Trump is a moral
monster.'"

Weiss said the news media, publishing houses, Hollywood and universities
are all guilty of the same thing.

"They are narrowing, in a radical way, what’s acceptable to say and what
isn’t," Weiss said.

A worker in protective coverings directs members of the World Health
Organization (WHO) team on their arrival at the airport in Wuhan in
central China's Hubei province on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng
Han Guan) (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A worker in protective coverings directs members of the World Health
Organization (WHO) team on their arrival at the airport in Wuhan in
central China's Hubei province on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng
Han Guan) (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Weiss added she feels "disinformation by omission" is plaguing the
journalism industry.

Over the summer, Stelter’s "Reliable Sources" show failed to cover CNN's
awkward return of the network's disgraced legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin,
the departure of "The View" co-host Meghan McCain," the uproar over New
York Times editorial board member Mara Gay calling the sight of American
flags "disturbing," and the collapsed media narrative during the 2020
election that President Donald Trump ordered the clearing of peaceful
protesters at Lafayette Square for a church photo op.

Stelter also glossed over the Washington Post's major correction of its
January report that accused Trump of urging Georgia election officials
to "find the fraud," the major MSNBC leadership shakeup, Toobin's firing
from The New Yorker following his Zoom call masturbation scandal, the
ousting of MSNBC contributor Jon Meacham after it was revealed that he
was moonlighting as a speechwriter for the Joe Biden campaign, and the
scandals that plagued 2020 media darlings The Lincoln Project.

Fox News’ David Rutz and Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.