Weeding Out Nuance: The Bari Weiss Effect at CBS News CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss recently faced backlash over a headline linking Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed to the 9/11 attacks.
The controversy centers on two tweets from 2020, in which El Sayed compared the death toll of the September 11 attacks to that of the COVID 19 pandemic.
CBS News unearthed these posts and framed them as evidence of El Sayed's allegedly inflammatory rhetoric. The reworked headline, overseen by Weiss, subtly altered the tone and implications of the piece.