**** off CBS... Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari...

[SVPete]

**** off CBS... Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari 'Anti-Woke' Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief

[url]Celerity (52,207 posts)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 06:13 PM

**** off CBS... Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari 'Anti-Woke' Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, according to a report by Puck’s Dylan Byers.

Prior to the merger with Paramount, Skydance CEO and founder David Ellison “quietly courted” Weiss to bring her on board for a potential high-profile gig with CBS, according to a report by Oliver Darcy.

Weiss was an editor and writer at The New York Times, covering political and culture topics, until she left in 2020 and launched a Substack newsletter, later renamed as The Free Press. Earlier in her career, Weiss was viewed as being aligned with the center-left but has moved rightward on certain issues, garnering praise in conservative circles for her critiques of “woke” liberal excesses at the Times, other media outlets, universities, and prominent progressive institutions.

The merger took on larger political implications in the wake of President Donald Trump’s re-election, due to his vociferous criticism of 60 Minutes and CBS News programs and reporters — not to mention the lawsuit he filed regarding an interview of then-Vice President Kamala Harris, which Paramount settled shortly before the merger went through.[/quote]

It was posted just an hour ago, so more hissing yowling devil-kittens might be birthed.  

walkingman (9,900 posts)
1. Hard to beat these nasty white people, history has shown us this over and over.
Reply to Celerity (Original post)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 06:15 PM

C'mon, say it. Say the J-word. Just say she's a Joooooooooooooooooooooo!

Initech (106,441 posts)
2. Are we not allowed to have anything nice ever again?
Reply to Celerity (Original post)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 06:17 PM

 

kimbutgar (26,169 posts)
5. was she a he before and had a sex change?
Reply to Celerity (Original post)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 07:24 PM

Well, that's random.

RedArkGuy (836 posts)
6. Not good
Reply to Celerity (Original post)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 07:32 PM
Her contribution to the media and opinion landscape has been nothing but malignant. She's a scourge against anyone who puts human rights before the project of a greater Israel and has the scalps on the wall to prove it. She wants to remake CBS News as something as far away from the network Don Hewitt served as possible, something very much like Fox News except more frivolous, more disdainful toward minorities, women and non-cisgendered. She is also extremely smug, ill-informed and hard to take in large doses (judging from her appearances on Real Talk with Bill Maher, who seems to worship her).

My hope is she washes out fast, but with the oligarch Larry Ellison in charge of CBS and all of Paramount now, we can probably expect many resignations and early retirements by principled journalists. I hate to think about it, but Scott Simon is probably not long for his job

Weiss is a Jooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!1111

[Ralph Wiggum]

Leftists love and adore diversity...except diversity of thought.

[CollectivismMustDie]

Earlier in her career, Weiss was viewed as being aligned with the center-left but has moved rightward on certain issues

I'd bet real money that the truth looks more like this:

'Earlier in her career, Weiss was viewed as being aligned with the center-left but she did not continue moving to the left on certain issues with the rest of the herd.'

[SVPete]

Initech (106,441 posts)
2. Are we not allowed to have anything nice ever again?
Reply to Celerity (Original post)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 06:17 PM

Notice the sense of ownership of MSM outlets.

[jukin]

My bet there is little to no change in the hard left democrat propaganda SeeBS puts out.

[SVPete]

This should inspire (have inspired?) more poutrage on DU:

Washington Post hires 3 conservative columnists as Jeff Bezos shifts toward ‘free markets and personal liberties’

https://nypost.com/2025/10/03/media/washington-post-hires-three-conservative-opinion-columnists/

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post is moving to broaden its editorial voice by hiring three conservative columnists after a string of high-profile liberal departures.

Kate Andrews of The Spectator, Dominic Pino of National Review and Carine Hajjar of the Boston Globe editorial board will join the opinion section under new editor Adam O’Neal, who has said he wants to diversify viewpoints at a paper he acknowledged is read “overwhelmingly” by liberals.

The hires were announced in a memo that O’Neal circulated to staffers. The newspaper also announced the new additions on its social media page.

“On my first day at The Post, I wrote to you all that advocating free markets and personal liberties would be critical to rebuilding trust with Americans,” O’Neal wrote in the memo — a copy of which was obtained by the New York Post.

There probably is poutrage in the halls of the WashPost as well.

I won't be looking like a Smurf anticipating something approximating non-partisanship or balance at SeeBS or the WashPost. I'm just .

ETA: Called it!

‘It’s not a good place right now’: CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cbs-news-bari-weiss-editor-reaction-b2839064.html

The imminent arrival of anti-woke and stridently pro-Israel “heterodox” pundit Bari Weiss as the editor-in-chief of CBS News has left the newsroom’s staff “literally freaking out,” with sources telling The Independent that the Tiffany Network is “not a good place right now.”

The rising frustration among the network’s journalists has also been compounded by the fact that David Ellison, the chief executive of the newly merged Paramount Skydance, is preparing to implement brutal layoffs and slash up to 10 percent of CBS News’ staff – all while paying Weiss up to $150 million to acquire her digital media outlet The Free Press.

Meanwhile, Weiss seizing the reins of the network’s vaunted news division – which has been months in the making – comes as staff have grown increasingly disgruntled with Ellison’s transformation of CBS News, with many feeling that the new owner “lied” to them when he insisted he didn’t want to “politicize” the network.