UTA executives, UC board members Jay Sures, Bari Weiss lecture canceled

Last week, Westwood’s story was about a canceled lecture scheduled to be given by a New York media heavyweight.

bari weissThe Free Press founder and CBS News editor-in-chief was scheduled to give a tribute lecture to Daniel Pearl. UCLAI’m going to the Buckle Center next week. subject? The future of journalism. What’s the reaction? Swift joins angry students and professors calling for a petition opposing Code Pink’s planned protests and lectures.

According to sources, the lecture was canceled due to security reasons. daily bruin report Weiss is still considering a Zoom appearance.

And at least one university official said he understood why Weiss requested the cancellation.

“As someone who has had to pay the price of having my personal security compromised as a result of speaking out loud about the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiments prevalent on college campuses, I completely understand why Bari canceled,” said Jay Sures, vice president of the entertainment agency. UtahAnd a University of California board member said in a statement: The Hollywood Reporter. “Why on earth would she put herself and her family in danger? In the environment we live in today, I understand why she would do this.”

Weiss is one of the most prominent executives in journalism, and although she has been in office for less than a year, she has often made headlines herself. She hosted a CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk, the widow of the late conservative journalist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last year.

And she has created a crisis of trust in TV news. her mantraViewers’ distrust of mainstream media is growing and we’ll see if we can convince them to come back.

As Sures alluded to, Weiss has also been outspoken in his support of Israel and his opposition to the apparent rise in anti-Semitism in Israel and around the world.

Last month she revealed comprehensive vision For CBS. Weiss told her staff, “I’m not going to stand here today asking for your trust. I’m going to try to earn your trust just as much as my viewers.” “What I can offer is what I, as a journalist, have always tried to provide to our readers: transparency, clarity and honest conversation. So here’s my plan: I’m here to make CBS News fit for purpose in the 21st century. Our industry has changed more in the last 10 years than in the last 150, and that change isn’t over yet. Not at all. It’s almost impossible to imagine how quickly things will move here.”

But as the response to her UCLA lectures highlighted, that vision was met with resistance both inside and outside CBS News. There was a perception that Weiss, whose personal views were considered heretical, or at least to the right of most New York journalists, was simply trying to change CBS’s ideological position.

or as an established CBS News producer. said There was a “shift in ideological expectations” at the network earlier this month.

Of course, Weiss is the one who runs CBS News, and while some employees and critics are upset with her moves, there’s no doubt she’s executing a strategy. And some within CBS News, including some of its top anchors and correspondents like Gayle King and Jan Crawford, have expressed support for executives.

So even if she’s not lecturing on the future of journalism, there seems to be little doubt that she will help figure out what that future will be in some way.