Bari Weiss and Shari Redstone Leigh Vogel/Getty Images; John Nacion/Variety/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Shari Redstone thinks that Bari Weiss will bring some much-needed change to CBS News, should Paramount Global complete its long-rumored acquisition talks with Weiss' The Free Press. "I know there's been talk about Bari, and I think she would be a good voice, so I'm hopeful," the former Paramount Global chair said Thursday. "I'm not going to go into it from a business standpoint, but I do think she's a voice that would bring a different perspective. And then I think at the end of the day, you've got to give your audience credit for being smart enough to hear different points of view and being able to narrow down on the facts." Related Stories TV 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Suspension Echoes an Earlier ABC Late Night Controversy TV How Jimmy Kimmel's Suspension Went Down: Sponsor Panic, a Defiant Host and a Painful Call In fact, Redstone suggested that broader changes might make sense for the news business. "We've gotten to the point where news needs to be more balanced. It needs to be fact-based," Redstone said. "I think that people's opinions are getting confused with the facts, and I think we still have the same challenge we had before, which is we need more accountability, we need more standards, we need checks and balances, and we have to go back to a place where facts are what the news is about, and opinions are not facts. And by the way, you can have opinions, but then you need to have people with different opinions and different sides, so people can hear everything." Redstone made the comments at an Axios Media Trends event in New York, where she was interviewed by Sara Fischer. Fischer also pushed Redstone on the state of late night TV, including CBS' decision to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert next year. "I can tell you that we had been looking at late night. It was financially not viable, it had been that way for a long time," Redstone said. "We had made a decision months prior to the announcement that we were not going to be going forward with that show. I love Stephen. He does a great job, but we really needed to be in a financially valuable business. And you saw we did that with James Corden as well." As for Kimmel: "I don't know all of the facts around the decision that was made. I don't have the history, I don't have the context, so I'm certainly not going to speak to why ABC made the decision, or whether it - not because of Trump or because of any other reasons - but I do think we all need to be thoughtful of the content we're putting on air, given the division that exists in this country. And that's not a direct reflection on Kimmel. That's just a much broader reflection on the world we're living in." THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up FCC Democratic FCC Commissioner Says Threats Against Disney Over Kimmel Are "Truly Empty" Starz Lionsgate Lays Off 50 Staffers in Latest Belt-Tightening Effort Live Feed 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Star Chris Briney at Center of Another Love Triangle - But This Time for Audio Erotica Series Live Feed Hollywood Unions Say Jimmy Kimmel Suspension "Chills Free Speech," Threatens Artist Livelihoods technology Luma AI and Adobe Partner to Distribute New Generative Video Model Business Features America's Most Trusted News Stars in the Trump Era Are ... FCC Democratic FCC Commissioner Says Threats Against Disney Over Kimmel Are "Truly Empty" Starz Lionsgate Lays Off 50 Staffers in Latest Belt-Tightening Effort Live Feed 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Star Chris Briney at Center of Another Love Triangle - But This Time for Audio Erotica Series Live Feed Hollywood Unions Say Jimmy Kimmel Suspension "Chills Free Speech," Threatens Artist Livelihoods technology Luma AI and Adobe Partner to Distribute New Generative Video Model Business Features America's Most Trusted News Stars in the Trump Era Are ...