Newspaper Reader opines: With the President purchased by Adelson, The House and Senate in the control of AIPAC, Bari Weiss ascends to CBS!
Oct 03, 2025
From the Magazine
May 2019 Issue
Mad About Bari Weiss: The New York Times Provocateur the Left Loves to Hate
The Times op-ed writer is a Trump-loathing theater nerd who studied at a feminist yeshiva and used to date Kate McKinnon. She also led a controversial protest at Columbia, and popularized the “intellectual dark Web.” The contradictions of a social-media lightning rod.
By Evgenia PeretzPhotography by Martin SchoellerStyled by Nicole Chapoteau
April 24, 2019
Bari Weiss to be named top editor at CBS News
Paramount Skydance will acquire the journalist’s publication, the Free Press, which she started after quitting the New York Times in 2020.
October 3, 2025 at 9:08 a.m. EDT Today at 9:08 a.m. EDT
By Will Oremus , Caroline O’Donovan, Jeremy Barr
The newly formed media giant Paramount Skydance will acquire the Free Press, an online publication, and install its iconoclastic founder, Bari Weiss, as editor in chief of CBS News, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Paramount Skydance is expected to announce Monday that it will pay $150 million in cash and stock for the Free Press and name Weiss to CBS News’s top editorial job, said one of the people, both of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the plans before they are formally announced.
The move heralds a new era at the 98-year-old broadcast network, whose corporate parents made moves to address the Trump administration’s allegations of liberal bias as they sought approval for an $8 billion merger that was finalized in August. The appointment of Weiss, a staunch advocate of Israel and frequent critic of the mainstream media, to lead the company’s news operation follows its hiring last month of a conservative-leaning ombudsman to field complaints about the network’s editorial coverage.
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Editor: Bari Weiss acts here as just another part of Zionist Cadre, she being the focus of attetion, that masks actual players in this journalistic coup d’état!
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