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She's still a liberal, but...she's a lib with principles. She doesn't believe in censoring people, so there's that:
https://nypost.com/2025/10/02/media/paramount-skyd...Bari Weiss to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources
Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.
Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.
In a remarkable reshuffle of CBS News’ decades-old management structure, Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison as she helps set the editorial direction at the Tiffany Network’s third-place news division, a source close to the situation said.An important step in returning the mainstream media to some level of sanity. We'll work on "credibility" later.
Cue the irrelevant whining about Fox, which has zero to do with CBS' stupidity over the years.
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giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press,
So, SkyDance throws a big pile of money at her, to gain control of her news site. When she doesn't toe the regime line, she is tossed, and SkyDance shuts down the Free Press, leaving her shouting in the wilderness, without a megaphone.
Steve...HBTT
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So, SkyDance throws a big pile of money at her, to gain control of her news site. When she doesn't toe the regime line, she is tossed, and SkyDance shuts down the Free Press, leaving her shouting in the wilderness, without a megaphone.
Except that now that she's tased that startup life she can do it again. With a lot more seed capital.
