Elizabeth Ames - Author, FOX News Contributor Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Live at fifty two UR time here this morning news
right the Free Press, described, as I said, a right
wing digital media outlet. Always laugh because you could tell
who wrote the article based on the use of the
term right wing. You know, they always throw the wing
in there. Join us to talk about it and what
it potentially means for CBS is Elizabeth Ames. She is

(00:22):
an author, as you know, and also a contributor at
Fox News. So I guess the assumption is because Barry Weiss,
who's the editor in chief or is going to be
the editor in chief is CBS News, is a former
co founder of the Free Press, that that's the direction
the CBS News is going to go. Do you think
that's the direction?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Hi, Jimmy, thank you for having me. I think that
she's going to move the CBS News away from the
far left towards the common sense center. And it's not
going to be Fox News. But that's perfectly okay because
you know it's a different audience. But you know, she
basically is really heterodox is sort of the word for her.

(01:04):
She mixes. You know, I subscribe to the Free Press.
It's a superb publication, and I mean I'm a paying subscriber.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Would you would you describe it, Elizabeth? Would you describe
it as right wing? How would you describe the free press?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
It has both sides, and it's not emotional. That's what
I like about it. It It has left and right
leaning writers both. Quite a few names that you that
you would know from the right leaning online world, but
also people from the left, people from the mainstream media.
I mean Mark Halpern, who is the former He was

(01:38):
on MSNBC's political he was on CBS News excuse me,
ABC News as political director. He's on there. Sometimes. You've
got Coleman Hughes, who's a terrific writer on race and
other social issues. Matthew Continenti Continenty Continetti of the American
Enterprise Institute. She's got a lot of different names. Last

(02:00):
night I watched the analysis of the narrow race was superb.
So she's going to bring intelligence and a mixed approach
to the news. Everybody is proclaiming, you know, the people
on the left predictably, are you know Pearl clutching, this
is going to be state media, you know, trumpist and

(02:20):
all that, and that's total baloney.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, I thought I was kind of telling you it
tells you a lot about who's in the building at CBS.
A CBS correspondent in the article I'm looking at told
the Independent quote. The fact that we don't have money
to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Barry
Weiss between one hundred and two hundred million, is indicative
of what the Ellison's true goal is here, and it's
not journalism. So they still think they're doing journalism over there,

(02:43):
not propaganda.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, well what was journalism? I mean, the whole thing
that the CBS denied, the Hunter Biden laptop was real,
and that was elected that no, and that's what they did.
And so it's it's really laughable that they could say
that the new CS News is going to carry water
for Trump. First of all, it's not. If you look
at the Free Press, there's plenty of articles there that

(03:06):
intelligently are critical of Trump, but not in a hyper
hysterical way, which is I think we need less hysteria.
I think we need a middle. And right now we've
got a very polarized media. You've got one extreme or
the other, and you know, I think that we need
a middle, and I think a middle is rising up.
I think that's an untold story. I think you've got

(03:28):
a channel that I think doing pretty well called News Nation.
It's not bad. I watch that sometimes. But the other
thing about Barry Weiss is that she's got digital knowledge
of the online world, which new media, which I think
is very important. And I think the question is going
to be, though, how fast can she make changes? That's

(03:49):
what I think. We may not see changes right away.
She might just make a few, because I mean it's
a you know, she has to learn how to manage
a huge operation.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
She can she can she drag them towards the middle
without lopping a whole bunch of heads, because it seems
like virtually everybody that works there now is on the left.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Well. Uh, as one person I was reading pointed out,
there are a lot of quiet allies that she might have,
and she's got to find out who they are. She's
got to she's got to figure out the lay of
the land, and there are many issues she's going to
have to confront. She also has got to deal with
the president of CBS News, who's going to still be there.
That's going to be I think her equal Tony Sabrowski.

(04:32):
Now she's got a direct report, she's a direct report
to David Ellison, who's the CEO and chairman of Paramount,
who bought uh, you know, CBS. But I think the
question is she's got to really figure out all of
this before she really is able to implement changes without
totally blowing up the place.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, don't look for changes overnight, but it'll be fun
to watch and see what happens. Thank you, Elizabeth Elizabeth Ames,
author and Fox News contributor,