My Latest Letter to CBS

By Ben Meiselas

Dear CBS News Editor Bari Weiss,

This is the second letter I am writing you and the third letter I have sent CBS warning about the dire consequences of the actions being taken. We previously wrote when Stephen Colbert’s contract was not renewed and when you killed the 60 Minutes episode on Trump torturing people in CECOT in El Salvador. I am writing again based on the recent videos and posts made by CBS announcing that the “new CBS” is launching in 2026.

According to the recent videos and posts, the new CBS will not focus on experts, scholars, scientists, and facts, but will instead be driven by the voices of its perceived audience. You have previously described the voices of your audience as resembling Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz. That is very odd and dangerous, in my opinion.

The recent posts announcing the “relaunch” of CBS have been widely mocked. Your viewership appears to be down massively. In record time, you’ve destroyed the legacy of a great news institution that I admired my entire life until recently. This is all the more ironic, given that you built a successful Substack before others joined this platform, only to cause serious harm to your Substack community and destroy a legacy media brand like CBS.

Your loss is our gain. Your “relaunch of CBS” is only leading to more people subscribing to this MeidasTouch Substack. If you want to know where your audience is going, Bari, they are coming here to the MeidasTouch Substack and to our YouTube channel.

Although your failures and destruction of CBS have resulted in further accelerating the growth of MeidasTouch, I still hate to see CBS fall this badly. I still hope one day that it can be restored to operating with integrity and not whatever it’s doing now.

As 2026 kicks off, it is a responsibility I take seriously that the MeidasTouch Network is now watched significantly more than CBS. We have a bigger audience because our reporting is fact-based and we are not afraid of this regime. Whereas CBS has bent the knee, MeidasTouch will report fearlessly in 2026. I guess we will see you on the other side of this, CBS. You do you, and Meidas will keep on growing.

A quick reminder to everyone: make sure to subscribe now to this Substack and send a strong message in 2026 and help Meidas expand and grow.