Bari Weiss's Handpicked CBS Editor Told Staffers Insubordination Is 'Legal Grounds for Firing'
Details Leak from Meeting Where Weiss's 'Handpicked' Editor Threatened CBS Staff
Leaked audio from a tense CBS News meeting reveals foreign editor Shayndi Raice, handpicked by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, warning staffers that defying the hierarchy is insubordination and legal grounds for firing. Raice clashed with correspondent Holly Williams over coverage of Israel and Gaza, calling the Palestinian death toll a 'magic number' and dismissing allegations about Netanyahu as a 'sideshow.' One attendee said jaws were on the floor.
This is not your publishing platform. This is a company that we all work for, and there's a hierarchy in place. And at the end of the day, you have to answer to that hierarchy. If you can't answer to that hierarchy, and you don't listen to what we say, that is called insubordination, and it's legal grounds for firing.