{"id":37212,"date":"2025-09-09T12:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=37212"},"modified":"2025-09-11T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:12:16","slug":"news-from-the-word-aint-a-whole-a-lot-of-nothing-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/news-from-the-word-aint-a-whole-a-lot-of-nothing-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"News from the WORD<\/em> Ain’t a Whole Lot of Nothing – 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBS News has endured some questionable headlines of late \u2014 its old owners\u2019 embarrassing settlement of a lawsuit brought by President Trump; its new owners\u2019 apparent determination to put Bari Weiss, an anti-woke commentator whom Puck\u2019s Dylan Byers recently credited with a \u201cbroadly shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition,\u201d in charge (and acquire her Free Press while they\u2019re at it); a recent edict, following pressure from the Trump administration, that its Sunday show Face the Nation air interviews in full \u2014 and so the network was perhaps glad, yesterday morning, to be able to tout an exclusive: the Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s first TV interview since she was confirmed to the court five years ago next month.<\/p>\n

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the WORD<\/strong><\/em> Editor Gregg W. Morris<\/p><\/div>\n

Other major outlets had tried and failed to land sit-downs with Barrett, who has a book out; she was apparently slated to appear on The Daily, the flagship New York Times podcast, only to cancel. In an era, however, when the prestige of linear TV is in question and the lines distinguishing it from other types of media are blurred, CBS did not land the first interview with Barrett, tout court, nor even the first of her book tour.<\/p>\n

Indeed, that honor went to Weiss, who hosted Barrett for an event in New York last week. Ahead of time, the Free Press (which also published an excerpt from the book) said that Barrett\u2019s \u201cwork on the bench reflects the kind of intellectual seriousness\u2014and humility\u2014we admire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Onstage, Barrett returned the compliment, describing herself, in perhaps the most predictable utterance of 2025 so far, as a \u201chuge fan\u201d of the outlet. With friends like these, who needs to kick the shit out of the establishment?<\/p>\n

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the WORD<\/strong><\/em> Editor Gregg W. Morris<\/p><\/div>\n

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CBS News has endured some questionable headlines of late \u2014 its old owners\u2019 embarrassing settlement of a lawsuit brought by President Trump; its new owners\u2019 apparent determination to put Bari Weiss, an anti-woke commentator whom Puck\u2019s Dylan Byers recently credited…<\/p>\n

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