Bari Weiss’s security detail is costing CBS $10K per day amid layoffs at the network

Something about this whole story says decadent with a capital D:

At the same time that CBS is being slammed with layoffs, an awkward number is circulating around the halls of the Tiffany Network.

Page Six hears that as staffers watch their colleagues pack up their desks, they’re also learning that the security detail for new CBSNews boss Bari Weiss costs the company five figures every day. Insiders tell us that eight bodyguards surround the Free Press founder at all times, and she’s shuttled around in a caravan of SUVs, much like the president and vice president.

And we’re told that the Bari Barrier costs $10,000 daily. The figure for the unprecedented detail would be eye-catching enough. But the leak comes as the struggling network lost 100 staffers in a bloodbath, which has affected those at every level of the storied news organization right up to Lisa Ling — the onetime “The View” co-host who announced last week that she’s been let go as a contributor.

I don’t see the paranoia increasingly gripping our plutocratic and political masters (as if there’s a difference), and their hirelings in the media as necessarily a bad thing.

Given what these people are doing to this country, they have should have reason to fear the consequences, although I would much prefer to see those play out in our federal and state courts, and, in the case of Donald Trump and his satraps, the International Court of Justice in the Hague.