周二早上，CBS新闻外国部门的数十名记者收到一封由巴里·韦斯（Bari Weiss）亲自挑选的外国编辑谢恩迪·雷斯（Shyndi Raice）代为发送的电子邮件。邮件要求员工务必参加上午的编辑会议，这立即在记者中引发了好奇，大家都在猜测雷斯在虚拟会议上可能会说些什么。
On Tuesday morning, the dozens of journalists who make up CBS News' foreign bureau woke up to an email sent on behalf of Bari Weiss' handpicked foreign editor, Shayndi Raice. The message instructed staffers to make a point of attending the morning editorial meeting, immediately stirring intrigue among journalists about what Raice might have to say during the virtual gathering.
他们没等多久就得到了答案。会议开始不久，雷斯便以引用《Status》周一的报道开场，该报道详细描述了韦斯如何因一系列关于其在约旦河西岸定居者暴力报道的高度争议性会议，将传奇《60分钟》节目记者莱斯利·斯塔尔（Lesley Stahl）逼到辞职的边缘。报道还透露，雷斯曾反对霍莉·威廉姆斯（Holly Williams）记者在上周一则纪念10月7日恐怖袭击周年纪念的《晚间新闻》报道中加入巴勒斯坦人死亡人数。
They didn't have to wait long for an answer. Moments after the meeting commenced, Raice opened by referencing Status’ reporting Monday, which detailed how Weiss had pushed legendary "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl to the brink of quitting following a series of highly contentious meetings over her report on Israeli settler violence in the West Bank. The story also revealed how Raice had pushed back on correspondent Holly Williams' inclusion of the Palestinian death toll in an "Evening News" report last week marking the anniversary of the October 7 terror attack.
赖斯告诉在场的记者，她想先回应这份报告，随后便开始了一场连续15分钟的激烈抨击，在这场抨击中，她坚决捍卫自己的编辑决定，坚称这不构成“干涉”，并警告说“不服从”将不会被容忍，宣称这是“解雇的合法依据”。
Raice told the assembled journalists that she wanted to address the report, before launching into an uninterrupted 15-minute tirade in which she fiercely defended her editorial decisions, insisted they did not constitute "interference," and warned that "insubordination" would not be tolerated, declaring it "legal grounds for firing."
在这场非凡的讲话过程中，赖斯反复吹嘘自己的“编辑天赋”、“经验”和“知识”。但最引人注目的交流发生在她讲完之后，当时威廉姆斯恭敬地就她在报告中收到的指令向赖斯提出质疑。随后发生了一段惊人的来回交锋，在这段交锋中，赖斯直言不讳地告诉这位资深记者，她之所以把报道写“错”，是因为她“不像我那样了解这个故事”。
Throughout the extraordinary lecture, Raice repeatedly touted her own "editing talent," "experience," and "knowledge." But the most remarkable exchange came after she finished speaking, when Williams respectfully challenged Raice over the directives she had received on her report. What followed was an extraordinary back-and-forth in which Raice flatly told the veteran correspondent that she had gotten the story "wrong" because she doesn't "know the story as well as I do."
赖斯随后进一步轻描淡写地否认了超过74,000名巴勒斯坦人在以色列对加沙的轰炸中死亡的事实，称其为“神奇的数字”，认为引用这一数字“无法拯救巴勒斯坦人”，并暗示引用死亡人数只不过是“姿态作秀”。此前，赖斯曾辩称该数字包括哈马斯战斗员。
Raice then went further, casually dismissing that more than 74,000 Palestinians had been killed in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza as a "magic number," arguing that including it was "not saving Palestinians" and suggesting that citing the death toll amounted to little more than "posturing.”Raice had argued earlier that the number includes Hamas combatants.
这场爆炸性的对峙为外界提供了一个难得的窗口，以窥见魏斯的CBS新闻内部正在酝酿的编辑紧张局势。此次会议的音频录音被《Status》获取。CBS新闻发言人未就此事立即置评……本文余下内容仅限付费读者阅读。已是会员？。
The explosive confrontation, which offered a remarkable window into the editorial tensions roiling Weiss' CBS News, was captured in an audio recording of the meeting obtained by Status. A CBS News spokesperson did not immediately offer comment for this story…The rest of this story is for paidrs only. Already ar?. Scoop-driven reporting and sharp-edged analysis.
以独家新闻驱动的报道和犀利的分析。看看《华尔街日报》为何将《Status》称为“必读”。
See why The Wall Street Journal declared Status a “must-read.”