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\n\tRecently-appointed CBS News correspondent Trevor Phillips has given a typically forthright assessment of his new boss, Bari Weiss.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cBari and her team have a huge tanker of a network news organisation to turn around, and they are assembling a little team on the bridge,\u201d he told The Daily Telegraph. \u201cThe great thing about her is that she\u2019s one of those people who will either change the world or crash and burn. But when they crash and burn, it\u2019s in technicolour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPhillips, who has been a correspondent for the U.K.\u2019s Sky News since 2021, was handpicked by CBS News editor-in-chief Weiss to join the Paramount-owned network as senior global affairs correspondent. He will also join \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d A veteran writer and broadcaster as well as a former politician, Phillips was previously chair of the U.K.\u2019s Equality and Human Rights Commission and in 2022 was knighted for his services to equality and human rights .<\/p>\n

\n\tHe is set to move across the pond this summer to take up the new role at CBS. \u201cYou know, I\u2019m 72. It\u2019s a great adventure,\u201d he said of Weiss\u2019s offer. \u201cAnd who turns down adventures if someone is willing to take a chance on you?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tTo mark the move, Phillips gave a wide-ranging interview to the Telegraph, in which he gamely discussed some of the controversy that has swirled since Weiss was appointed to her role last year. \u201cIn the U.S., the controversy has been framed as, \u2018CBS News is becoming anti-woke\u2019. But that\u2019s not what Bari is about,\u201d Phillip said. \u201cShe has her own views, some of which I\u2019m sympathetic to, some of which I\u2019m not, but her point is that the media should be heterodox. There should be a variety of voices.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe wouldn\u2019t comment on rumors that reporter Holly Williams, who works in CBS News\u2019 London bureau, had been taken off an interview with right wing politician Nigel Farage in favor of Phillips, but said: \u201cWhat\u2019s interesting in politics now is this current of thought, represented by Farage, Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen, which essentially says the way we have done conventional politics is bust in a new world, and we need to do things differently. We keep trying to fit it into the old Right\/Left duopoly, and I don\u2019t think that\u2019s quite right. The interviews I\u2019m interested in doing will include that group [of leaders].\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not the smoothest presenter on television or reader of the autocue, but I guess they think that I manage the chaos [of live guests] well,\u201d Phillips added. \u201cBroadcast journalism has, to some extent, become the creature of entertainment. We need to return to the business of reporting. To put it in its crassest terms, the story needs to come before the reporter. Too many people who do what I do put themselves between the viewer and the story, and that\u2019s not our job.\u201d<\/p>\n

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