Anyone who pays attention to the media, any media, surfing headlines on preferred streams, knows that Bari Weiss is the newly minted News Chief at CBS. They also know who Bari Weiss is and that this married lesbian is a veteran progressive reporter who was excommunicated from the Left-Wing Group-Think “Tanks” doing business as America’s newsrooms for thinking they had some obligation to tell the truth, even if it wasn’t the truth everyone wanted.
Old school liberal reporters are not “conservative,” but they can be a bit more liberal (in the classic sense) and are in short supply. Thankfully, the Biden years and the COVID inquisition loosened a few of them from the cold, bitter grasp of what passed for mainstream journalism, and they work for themselves, doing quite well, challenging the left’s media orthodoxy.
Weiss, who was ahead of the media-defection curve, leveraged her excommunication into a multimillion-dollar private media platform, raking in hundreds of millions in subscriptions. A platform that she sold to whoever owns the company that owns CBS as part of a deal. A big payday, and she landed the gig as the alpha/omega of editorial decisions at CBS News. She is the grand poobah.
And she’s still a classic Democrat, identifying as an independent, but the inconvenient truth is more important than ideology when it comes to reporting.
Democrats hated her a lot before for refusing to be one of them. They hate her more now.
Paramount just bought her The Free Press online publication for $150 million and named her editor-in-chief of CBS News. It’s that last bit that has Lefty panties wadded so tightly that they risk collapsing into singularities. They understand, perhaps even better than conservatives do, what it means for a progressive mainstream media mainstay to come under the control of a “self-styled free speech martyr,” as the Financial Times once called Weiss. ..
The Left completely lost its… you know… when Musk turned Twitter (now X) into a free speech platform. They were right to, because I don’t think 2024 could have happened without X. What happens after a major media news outlet becomes a bit more fair and balanced, we can only guess, but for now, channel your inner Dracula, hearing the wolves howl: “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
Weiss is a brilliant writer, freed from a world viewed through broken woke-colored glasses, who can consider what might save CBS News from itself, as woke, left-wing staffers rush off to struggle sessions and search for safe spaces. CBS news scandals are numerous and span a long history, the latest being the settled lawsuit with Trump after it over-edited Kamala Harris to make her sound less like a train wreck in the now-infamous 60 Minutes word salad interview.
Weiss oversees all of that, and we should expect some CBS news rats to jump ship. I can’t. “I just can’t. work for her,” they’ll scream. But unlike the bullying she received at the NY Times, Weiss gets to be the boss bully at an operation that has a unique opportunity. A non-cable news outfit that can deliver something no one else in that space can pretend to do. Report the news more objectively and with less political bias. Maybe, a lot less.
They’d own that segment. No one is even prepared to challenge them for viewers interested in it.
Now all we have to do is wait and see if that’s what happens.
