Paramount Buys The Free Press for $150M, Names Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS

Published OCT 6

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Above: The Free Press's Bari Weiss interviews U.S. Senator Ted Cruz in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18, 2025. Image copyright: Leigh Vogel/Getty Images

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Republican narrative

Bari Weiss will be great for CBS News: her contrarian Free Press success proves she can rebuild audiences alienated by bias. As a bold voice against woke elites and antisemitism, she'll inject needed balance. Mainstream media has grown so progressive — seen in CBS's scandals like biased Harris edits and one-sided Israel coverage — that trust is eroded. Fixing it demands a team of conservatives and classical liberals to restore credibility.

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Democratic narrative

It's laughable that right-wing media could think the left is in charge of powerful institutions these days. Trump, through his control over federal regulators, has now given the conservative Ellison family power over Paramount, CBS and TikTok, and possibly Warner Bros. Discovery, HBO and CNN, if their next merger plan succeeds. The MAGA-tech elites have taken over the entire U.S. media ecosystem in the span of months.

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Establishment-critical narrative

This isn't left versus right — it's Israeli propaganda merged with a digital surveillance state. Larry Ellison's media empire, led by son David, seizes CBS and TikTok to control narratives, auditing algorithms to suppress Gaza criticism and promote pro-Israel sentiment, as Netanyahu targets social media as a "weapon." Oracle's AI-driven data centralization, backed by $350 million to the Blair Institute, enforces compliance through digital IDs and relentless monitoring in "New Gaza" and beyond.

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