WATCH: Brian Stelter Cuts Off Bari Weiss, Asks ‘Who’s Stopping The Conversation?’

As former New York Times editor Bari Weiss warned that narrow media coverage and rampant self-censorship have created a world gone mad, CNN’s Brian Stelter interrupted her to ask, ”Who’s the people stopping the conversation?”

“You write there are tens of millions of Americans who aren’t on the hard-Left or the hard-Right, who feel the world has gone mad. So, in what ways has the world gone mad?” Stelter asked, airing a part of a pre-recorded interview he conducted with Weiss for Sunday’s episode of “Reliable Sources.” Weiss replied by citing a litany of media bias, blackouts, and sins of omission:

When you have the chief reporter on the beat of COVID for The New York Times talking about how questioning or pursuing the question of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad.

When you’re not able to say out loud and in public that there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad.

When we’re not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting, and it is bad — and that silence is not violence, but violence is violence — the world has gone mad.

When we’re not able to say that Hunter Biden’s laptop is a story worth pursuing, the world has gone mad. When, in the name of progress, young school children as young as kindergarten are being separated in public schools because of their race, and that is called “progress” rather than “segregation,” the world has gone mad.

There are dozens of examples that I could share with you and with your viewers, but —

“And you often say, you say ‘allowed,’” Stelter said, speaking over top of Weiss. “You say ‘we’re not allowed, we’re not able,’” Stelter continued manterrupting Weiss, who yielded mid-thought.

”Who’s the people stopping the conversation?” Stelter asked, stopping the conversation. “Who are they?” he asked, smirking.

“People that work at networks, frankly, like the one I’m speaking on right now,” Weiss responded fearlessly.

Substack’s @BariWeiss brings common sense to @BrianStelter: “When you have” NYT reporter talking abt how “pursuing the question of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad. When you’re not able to say…there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad…” pic.twitter.com/l52otDbRSp

— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) October 17, 2021

Stelter minimized the effectiveness of network censorship, saying that “every story you mentioned” is “all over the internet.”

Weiss responded that reporters know reporting on “an increasing number of subjects that have