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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Bari Weiss and CBS News
Date: 09/05/25 7:49 PM
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Bari Weiss was a sane voice at the New York Times. Of course, that meant that the *insane* folks who run that joint had to run her out of town. So they did.

She's finished, they thought. Not so fast.

Bari founded the Free Press over at Substack and built a following. Now, the new owners at Skydance are buying it for between $100 and $200 million...and giving her a lot of stay in how CBS News gets run.

And the natives, similar insaniacs at CBS? It's not sitting well:

townhall.com - Cbs news staffers are fuming over this move

Status newsletter author Oliver Darcy lamented the looming deal, calling the reported $100 to $200 million price tag an "absurd sum."

"David Ellison vowed not to politicize Paramount — yet his first big move at CBS News is a major bet on Bari Weiss, one of the most polarizing figures in media," Darcy began his newsletter Wednesday night. "Weiss, the stridently pro-Israel, proudly anti-'woke' culture warrior, has built her brand on polarizing political commentary — supposedly the type of material Ellison signaled to reporters that he wishes to run away from."

Darcy warned, "Handing Weiss the keys won’t broaden trust — it will further erode it among the people who actually watch the network, reinforcing suspicions about Ellison’s agenda. In effect, the move will set CBS News on a course to squander its hard-earned credibility with the audience that reveres its history and demands it stand unbowed to power."


Cry harder, Oliver. Oh, and go Learn To Code.

The next person that needs to be shown the door is the execrable Margaret Brennan. Townhall did a comparo of her interviewing 2 Supreme Court Justices. Let's see if there are any differences in her approach:

X (Twitter): Townhall.com on X: "CBS News has a bias that can’t be ignored. Look at the difference in their interviews of Ketanji Brown Jackson, versus Amy Coney Barrett. ht

Nah, no bias there. Other than the subtle infantilization of Brown-Jackson. Typical for 'elite' leftists also.

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