I've never been impressed with Bari Weiss or her "Free Press". She seems to be taken for a liberal herself - gay, worked for NYTimes, etc. by some folks but everything I've read of hers she seems to conveniently support right wing talking points.
It's like she wants people to think she's not right wing but in this - and every instance - she just happens to agree with the right wing talking points.
Here's an excerpt from an article by Bari Weiss on the Free Press site from October 30, 2024, right before the election:
"We’ve received a lot of questions about whether and who we’d endorse in this election. Given our mission of not telling readers what to think, but rather giving them the information necessary to make their own decisions, we will not endorse a candidate."
Sounds maybe reasonable, I guess? The whole rest of the article is spent disparaging other "left wing" media including The Nation, WaPo, NY Times. Who doesn't she criticize? no WSJ, USA Today, Newsmax, nothing disparaging on any news outlets like those. She mentions Karen Attiah at WaPo, who dared to be unhappy when Bezos, the owner - BANNED - the paper's intended Harris endorsement.
She's insidiously right wing while purporting to be above it all. It's maybe worse than being overt about her intentions.
Link to Free Press Article I sited - https://web.archive.org/web/20241104200438/https://www.thefp.com/p/the-free-press-votes
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