Vile Grifters takes up the media of the establishment

Bari Weiss has worsened the world for a long time.

Twenty years ago, as a student in Columbia, she led a racist campaign against the Arab teachers who had the audacity to criticize Israel. Inasmuch as New York Times Chronicler, she constantly colored the bile of the right while pretending to be a liberal who was just tired of all extremism And censorship On the left – a bait and a tedious switch who nevertheless sent him his arrow media profile. And, as a founder and editor The free pressShe pushed the denial of the genocide, transphobia and the freedom to make Nazi greetings.

If we lived in a moment and a less terrible place, Weiss would be rejected as a crank and a fanatic, and never heard of again. But we live in the waking nightmare that is the United States in 2025. So, instead, Weiss is rewarded by a price that even she must think is a bit wild.

This price? CBS News.

The person presenting this gift to Weiss is David Ellison, the baby billionaire Nepo who has just merged the parent company of CBS News, Paramount, with his company, Skydance Media. Ellison, PuckDylan Byers reported on Wednesday, pays between $ 100 million and $ 200 million to buy The free press And install Weiss somewhere at the top of the network.

Here are the dark details of Byers:

As part of the agreement, I told myself that David plans to give Bari a role at CBS News who, among other things, tastes his millennial colleague to guide the editorial management of the division. The vision of the pro-Israeli and anti-listening world of Bari de Bari-does not mention his anti-establishment disposition largely in shit-would inevitably inspire the return of various corners of the editorial room, and could radically change the editorial posture and the reputation of one of the strictest and certainly that is importantAmerican journalism institutions. For David, it’s probably part of the point.

Two things here: first, call them “David” and “Bari” as if they were your friends who come out with you all the time is boring. We understand, Dylan, you know. Nobody cares! Secondly, the laughable line of Weiss’s “anti-establishment arrangement” is fundamental to understand why its particular bullshit brand was so successful. For gullible hacks like Byers, the fact that Weiss throws around the banalities on ignorance and freedom of expression makes it an “anti-establishment” figure. But the people who In fact Opposing the establishment, do not receive hundreds of millions of dollars by this same establishment! Instead, which Weiss peddles pro-Establishment coubelle that flatters the need for our richest and most cozy dimwits to claim that they are in fact besieged.

Now, I’m not here to claim that CBS News is the greatest thing in journalism. It is a major media organization of the establishment owned in business. And he did not exactly covered glory in the past year, that we were talking about the anchor of Morning Show, Tony Dokoupil, losing our heads because Ta-Nehisi Coates would not say how great Israel is or the appalling decision by the patterns of the network to grease the wheels of the fusion of Skydance by essentially breaking Donald Trump. We should not get carried away on what is apparently lost here.

But that does not make the Weiss move less disturbing. Whatever CBS News is currently, it is not only a hatred factory that pumps poor quality propaganda 24/7. But now it is shipped to one of the main hateful propagandists of our time.

I really can’t emphasize this last part enough. The thing that Weiss publishes is a rank. For example, The free press was relentless to deny the reality of famine in Gaza. Barely a few weeks ago, the staff member Olivia Reingold conducted a “investigation” in the suspicious fact that many children who recently starved to Gaza also had pre -existing health problems. Because, as we all know, if you are sick, it means that your famine does not count. These baby literals should have told us that they did not manage well before someone photographs their emaciated corpses. (After many people are rightly remote in a premise so vile, The free press has published an unsigned editorial defending the play as “a sober meticulous work in the face of journalists who oppose real journalism”. ))

Weiss also did The free press A proud house for anti-Trans waste. The site produced a Podcast Fawning on the way everyone was mean to JK Rowling simply because she devoted her life to hate trans people. He carried out a defamation campaign against a Missouri gender clinic which turned out to be based on total nonsense. In June, the staff member Emily Yoffe praised the Supreme Court US c. Skrmetti Decision confirming the care for minors affirming the sexes, calling it “historic decision [that] Will help bring this medical scandal to an ignominious end rightly. »»

I could continue again and again, but you get the photo. This is the kind of journalism that should resume CBS News. Not only that – that’s why Weiss gets this concert. Earlier this year, when the new Ellison-Weiss negotiations have surfaced for the first time, the Financial time reported: “Weiss conquered Ellison in part by adopting a pro -Israeli position” – an understatement if there was one. This is the world in which we live at the moment. Opt yourself genocide and fanaticism, and your life is destroyed. Encourage it and you get a new figure salary and the keys to the United States most venerable dissemination information network.

There are a lot of horrible things about our current moment. But one of the worst is that we have to sit down and look at odious humans not only take control of our public life, but do bandits while doing this. I hope that the employees of CBS News resist this attempt to destroy their workplace with everything they have. I hope that Weiss’s mandate at the top of CBS is short and failed. But above all, I hope that one day we live in a world where people like Weiss are treated with the contempt they deserve and are launched in the cultural desert where they belong.