Posted on 09/05/2025 12:51:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Liberals are up in arms over reports that independent journalist Bari Weiss is eyeing a top role at CBS News as the new Paramount chief is inching closer to striking a major deal with her.
Puck News reported Wednesday that Paramount CEO David Ellison, who just took over the company last month after his $8 billion merger with Skydance, is at the "one-yard line" with his plans to buy Weiss' online publication, The Free Press, and appoint her to a top editorial position at the struggling broadcast network.
Weiss, a classical liberal who famously exited The New York Times in 2020 after facing bullying by far-left colleagues, has largely been ostracized by the cultural left for The Free Press' reporting that challenges DEI, gender ideology and media narratives against Israel during its ongoing war with Hamas.
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."
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Careful re: Bari Weiss.
In a recent video, she was lumping Trump & Reagan with the crazy leftists saying they’re all the same.
At least she admits there are crazy Leftists. That’s a start.
Do you have a link so I can check that out? Thx.
She’s no saint by any means, but she has the courage to be independent and she’s not afraid of making enemies.
I saw the interview video Thurs and will try to find it.
Bottom line, take what she says with a HUGE truckload of salt...
If you’re an insane lefty, a moderate would seem like a conservative. This explains the left’s antipathy toward Ms. Weiss.
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Correct, it’s a pipedream to think CBS would ever become a rightwing network, it would be helpful if CBS news became a mainstream network, holding both sides accountable for their actions, if that were to happen, CBS would likely become very successful and a lot of really crazy liberals would be out of work, which would be a good thing.
Boy, those libs sure do whine,piss and moan all the time. Hundreds of them have gone from government to MSM positions and that’s just the way it is.
I am hopeful. I heard her on Dennis Prager’s show a few times and she seems at least reasonable, not a corrupt lying democrat or a leftist loon moonbat.
If she is a Leftist, why are the Leftists at CBS screaming about her being hired?
What evidence do I have that Weiss is a leftist? How about her own words? Is that good enough for you? At 7:51 in the interview,
https://youtu.be/MjV7EDuL21M?si=2Kv7SQy9A3w41UkJ
Based on her financial donations, she’s an official member of the marxist cult known as leftism.
“Money talks, well...you know the rest.
Here’s more evidence
Weiss appeared on “Real Time with Bill Maher and issued a warning to American Jews who aligned themselves with Trump because they like his policies: “I hope this week that American Jews have woken up to the price of that bargain. They have traded policies that they like for the values that have sustained the Jewish people and frankly this country for forever: welcoming the stranger, dignity for all human beings, equality under the law, respect for dissent, love of truth. These are the things that we’re losing under this president[referring to Trump]. And no policy is worth that price.”
I'm not defending her, but since that time she's quit the NY Times because of its defense of Wokeness and founded The Free Press which has featured many writers who are conservatives, and who have criticised the Left.
In her resignation letter at the times, she said, I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of The Times as their home.
About that she also said this in her resignation letter:My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist;
On some issues—like defending free speech against progressive censorship—she now aligns more with center-right/libertarian arguments.
You sound antiSemitic.
When was that Bill Maher appearance?
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