Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe
“On Monday, the long-rumored deal was made official as Paramount bought the online media outlet The Free Press and named its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Weiss became a hero for certain factions of the anti-progressive coalition when she quit her job at The New York Times in 2020 to protest what she saw as the paper’s growing intolerance of dissenting opinions. She started The Free Press with her sister and wife, presenting the philosophy of the digital outlet as an inverse of the kind of progressive dogmatism she had seen at the Times. But now, she returns to the legacy press, taking the helm of an outlet much larger than her own. … Does Bari Weiss’s appointment as head of CBS News really represent a major shift away from the status quo in America’s media industry? The answer is no.” (10/08/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/bari-weiss-cbs-new-direction-or-misdirection