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(161,036 posts) Fri Oct 3, 2025, 04:00 AM 7 hrs ago

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Source: MEDIAite

Oct 2nd, 2025, 4:03 pm

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.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/paramount-officially-acquiring-the-free-press-and-making-bari-weiss-cbs-news-editor-in-chief-report/

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Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 7 hrs ago OP

Bari Weiss is originally from Pittsburgh FakeNoose 4 hrs ago #1

CBS now joins the right-wing media circus. Lonestarblue 3 hrs ago #2

As I understand it, Ms. Weiss got labeled "conservative" when really it was just one issue FakeNoose 1 hr ago #3

FakeNoose

(38,843 posts)

1. Bari Weiss is originally from Pittsburgh

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 07:00 AM

4 hrs ago

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss

Lonestarblue

(12,952 posts)

2. CBS now joins the right-wing media circus.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 07:59 AM

3 hrs ago

Bari Weiss left the NYT in 2020 and wrote a highly critical diatribe of the paper and how its editorial staff refused to publish conservative viewpoints. I don’t recall, but she may have been responsible for the Times publishing the controversial Tom Cotton opinion in which he called for the Insurrection Act to be invoked and the military sent in to cities with George Floyd protests, which were mostly peaceful until right-wing actors like the Bugaloo Bois would show up to start the violence. The article below includes the controversy over the Cotton article.

“Weiss joined The New York Times as a staff editor and writer for the Opinion section in 2017. She quickly gained attention for her provocative takes on topics like campus politics and cultural appropriation. Her tenure at the Times was contentious, with some colleagues accusing her of promoting conservative views.

In July 2020, Weiss resigned from the newspaper in a public letter that went viral. She cited a "hostile work environment" and claimed she faced bullying from coworkers. Her departure sparked debates about ideological diversity in media and cancel culture.”

https://www.factualamerica.com/byline-blunders/bari-weiss-the-new-york-times-resignation-that-went-viral

FakeNoose

(38,843 posts)

3. As I understand it, Ms. Weiss got labeled "conservative" when really it was just one issue

Reply to Lonestarblue (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 09:47 AM

1 hr ago

She is pro-Israel and pro-Netanyahu to the max. On other issues she is shown to be rather liberal and even progressive. (For example she supports same-sex marriage, and is currently married to a woman.)

Ah well ....

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