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According to a Thursday Vanity Fair e-newsletter, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has reportedly dropped out of talks to seem on CBS after a “nail in the coffin” X put up from editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.
The information got here by way of the “Party Animals” newsletter from Vanity Fair‘s Washington correspondent, former Mediaite editor-in-chief Aidan McLaughlin.
According to McLaughlin, “two sources with knowledge,” including one former CBS producer, told him that Mamdani was in talks to appear on Robert Costa’s CBS News Sunday Morning, regardless of issues from his crew about Weiss’s commentary.
But these negotiations had been shelved after Weiss’s Feb. 28 X put up by which she promoted CBS commentary from Iranian dissident and journalist Masih Alinejad.
In the clip, which Weiss reposted with a hearth emoji, Alinejad takes subject with Mamdani’s late Feb. assertion by which he argued that partaking in navy exercise with Iran “mark[s] a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression,” quipping that the NYC mayor is “more than welcome to come to one of my safe houses.”
According to McLaughlin’s sources, that put up was the “nail in the coffin” for Mamdani and his crew, with the previous CBS producer including that “Bari and her people have a clear axe to grind for him.”
“It’s not just Zohran,” the supply expanded. “It’s really hard now to get people to come on CBS.”
This information solely appears so as to add to the state of unrest on the community, with CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane announcing his departure this week, after changing into “disillusioned” and “appalled” with the publication underneath Weiss.
Last month, each 60 Minutes correspondent Anderson Cooper and CBS Evening News producer Alicia Hastey left as nicely, with Hastey sharing some pointed observations on what she says the community calls “‘heterodox’ journalism” as she went: “Stories may be instead be evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
The put up ‘Nail in the Coffin’: Mamdani Reportedly Scraps CBS Interview After Bari Weiss X Post first appeared on Mediaite.
