Bari Weiss led a CBS News town hall event with Erika Kirk last week. She says to expect similar events more frequently in the future.
To begin the event with the Turning Point USA CEO, Weiss shared the reasoning for why the network was hosting the discussion in the first place.
“We live in a very divided country,” Weiss said. “A country where many people feel that they can’t speak across the political divide. Sometimes they feel they can’t even speak across their own kitchen table.”
Weiss, who was named Editor-in-Chief of CBS News following the acquisition of her digital outlet — The Free Press — by the network’s parent company Paramount Skydance, said that a new focus of the network is fostering discussions and debates about issues important to American TV viewers.
“One of the goals of the new CBS News is to change (the political discourse),” Weiss said. “This town hall is just the beginning. This is going to be the first of many conversations and debates on CBS News about the things that matter most, which are often the hardest to talk about.”
In the wake of the event with Erika Kirk, Variety’s Brian Steinberg noted that there was a lack of “blue-chip”
advertisers involved in the broadcast of the town hall. The broadcast of the conversation between Bari Weiss and Kirk — which was pre-recorded — aired at 8 PM ET on Saturday.
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