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The Weiss House

While fourth-estate purists bemoan the diminishment of press freedoms under Trump, CBS’s Bari Weiss and David Ellison will be breaking bread over White House Correspondents’ Association weekend with two of the administration’s most visible press antagonists. Cue the outrage… but that’s the point.

White House Correspondents Association dinner
In light of this administration’s myriad attacks—lawfare, investigations, restrictions—and its combative stance toward the press, as well as the general discomfort surrounding CBS’s direction under Bari, the reactions among the media in-crowd have been decidedly more mixed. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
April 22, 2026

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On Thursday evening, CBS News chief Bari Weiss will join her boss David Ellison and various other Paramount executives at the Institute of Peace in Washington for an invitation-only dinner honoring President Trump, who settled his infamous lawsuit with the network only about 10 months ago,and her political correspondents. Two nights later, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, she will host Trump advisor Stephen Miller and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, two of the administration’s more outspoken media antagonists,as guests at the CBS News tables. Naturally, as ceasefire talks with Iran stall and gas prices rise, this is the talk of the town.