https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20693609

And nazis and they will go away"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/anti-trans-queer-journalist-bari-164319943.html

In a move shaking the foundations of American broadcast journalism, Paramount Skydance announced Monday that it has acquired The Free Press, the digital media company founded by out journalist Bari Weiss, and appointed her as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. The deal, valued at roughly $150 million in cash and stock, brings Weiss’s growing subscriber-driven platform under the same corporate roof as CBS, Showtime, and Paramount, according to CBS News. It also places Weiss, who rose to prominence as a conservative-leaning critic of liberal media culture, at the helm of one of the nation’s oldest and most trusted news brands.

As The Advocate noted in an earlier report, Weiss, who is queer, becomes one of the few out LGBTQ+ leaders to oversee a major national U.S. broadcast newsroom. Weiss, 41, first captured national attention after her 2020 resignation from The New York Times, where she accused the paper of enforcing what she described as “ideological conformity.” She later launched The Free Press in 2021 alongside her wife, Nellie Bowles, and her sister, Suzy Weiss, which became a haven for self-styled “heterodox” thinkers and a lucrative digital media brand championing “free speech” and contrarian opinion.

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison said Weiss will report directly to him, part of what the company calls a “new era of innovation and journalistic independence” at CBS News. “Bari is a proven champion of independent, principled journalism, and I am confident her entrepreneurial drive and editorial vision will invigorate CBS News,” Ellison said in a statement, according to NBC News. “This move is part of Paramount’s bigger vision to modernize content and the way it connects — directly and passionately — to audiences around the world.”

Weiss’s appointment, however, has already prompted unease among some CBS staffers, who worry that her reputation for culture-war provocations could shift the network’s editorial tone. Her new role arrives at a time when questions of objectivity, identity, and ideology are defining the media landscape as much as the news itself. Weiss is expected to assume her duties immediately, while The Free Press will continue operating independently under Paramount’s ownership.

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https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/read-bari-weisss-first-memo-to-cbs-staff/

Dear Colleagues:

I am thrilled and humbled to be writing to you as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News.

Growing up, CBS was a deep family tradition. Whenever I hear that tick, tick, tick or that trumpet fanfare, it sends me right back to our den in Pittsburgh. The opportunity to build on that legacy with you—and to renew it in an era that so desperately needs it—is an extraordinary privilege.

Right now, I imagine you have some questions. I do, too.

My goal in the coming days and weeks is to get to know you. I want to hear from you about what’s working, what isn’t, and your thoughts on how we an make CBS News the most trusted news organization in America and the world. I’ll approach it the way any reporter would—with an open mind, a fresh notebook, and an urgent deadline.

What I can tell you on day one is that I stand for the same core journalistic values that have defined this profession sine the beginning, and I will continued to champion them alongside you: ....

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duck and cover

they should start calling her Leni.

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Measured toward Trump and his administration
The Free Press isn’t an avowedly right-wing or pro-Trump publication. Its audience is people who find Fox News or other conservative media too hardline, lowbrow, or sycophantic toward the president. But they aren’t an anti-Trump publication either — far from it.

Indeed, the standard Free Press take on Trump is that he should be understood as a politician with the support of about half the country who does some good things and some bad things — and not as an appalling aberrant figure and budding authoritarian who all decent people must despise. (Weiss has said she bristled at the “overzealous, out-of-touch, hysterical reaction” against Trump in his first term, and asserted that the reaction itself proved “extraordinarily authoritarian and totalitarian in its impulses”).

As Trump began his second term and proceeded to do various extreme and authoritarian things, the Free Press has criticized him about various matters (such as Trump planning to accept a plane from Qatar and going too far in his retribution efforts). But they’ve been strategic about how they do so — being careful not to tip over into becoming an “anti-Trump” publication, since that would cost them their influence on the right.

Some commentators who liked Weiss’s anti-wokeness takes have been appalled at this stance toward Trump’s second term. “The almost total avoidance of coverage of the current government threats to freedoms as basic as habeas corpus, due process and free speech on campus is quite something,” Andrew Sullivan wrote, adding: “When there is coverage, it’s nitpicking in order to defend Trump.”
https://www.vox.com/politics/463751/bari-weiss-free-press-cbs-ellison-paramount

A narcissistic sociopath. No wonder Maher likes her so much. Birds of a feather.