Althouse: "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

"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."

The Washington Post reports.

50 comments:

wild chicken said...: So what happened to her University project? Is that still a thing?; 10/3/25, 9:38 AM
Peachy said...: I hope CBS news can be a straight down the middle - reality based non-partisan news source.

The alphabet news (D) Soviet - have a less than 8% approval rating. No one but hiveminders - trust them.; 10/3/25, 9:43 AM
Josephbleau said...: I can’t read the post article but what is very interesting is that she reports to the ceo of paramount not to the president of CBS news. That can’t last, how can a chief editor not report to the leader of the org? Who provides her budget?; 10/3/25, 9:45 AM
Caroline said...: Good for her. Will this occasion an examen of conscience on the part of the NYT? Lol.; 10/3/25, 9:46 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Her performative leftism and lesbianism wasn't performative enough, hence her apostate status. CBS will continue dying, just at slower rate than the rest of the terminally geriatric MSM.

I'd prefer something quicker and more painful, but I'm fine so long as they die.; 10/3/25, 9:48 AM
Ampersand said...: Bari is an honest liberal. She will take lots of pushback from the legacy staff, and lots from Trump too.; 10/3/25, 9:53 AM
Achilles said...: Bari Weiss is a slightly more honest leftist than average.

That is unacceptable when you need to justify shooting people.; 10/3/25, 9:53 AM
GatorNavy said...: What's not to like? CBS is already in third place in the news biz.; 10/3/25, 9:54 AM
Lazarus said...: I see her eventually getting swallowed back up into the establishment media, if she lasts that long. Still, she might bring a different, earlier version of the liberal media, more Cronkite or Rather, and less Joy Reid. On the other hand, the country as a whole may be backing away from the extremes of wokeness, so maybe her effect won't be that noticeable.; 10/3/25, 9:55 AM
Maynard said...: Lazarus

Neither Cronkite nor Rather were honest journalists.; 10/3/25, 9:58 AM
john mosby said...: The University of Austin is not a solo Bari Weiss project. It has massive donors, a president and provost, other administrators, faculty, and other big names at the door to include Sir Niall Ferguson. She never intended to be deep in the weeds there. She can still show up to give lectures, seminars, master classes, and other short-form events. Much like other big newsies make the circuit of lefty schools. CC, JSM; 10/3/25, 9:59 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Was Bari Weiss a DEI hire for CBS?

Her entire career is based on being a seemingly hip, young lesbian who says things that old men like to hear.; 10/3/25, 10:03 AM
Aggie said...: Finally, the world of the grownups begins to assert itself. As always, money talks and BS walks.; 10/3/25, 10:04 AM
The Vault Dweller said...: "Was Bari Weiss a DEI hire for CBS?"

No I think she was brought in to moderate the news room to a more centrist view broadly speaking, and specifically speaking to make the news room less negative towards Israel.; 10/3/25, 10:05 AM
Achilles said...: Peachy said...
I hope CBS news can be a straight down the middle - reality based non-partisan news source.

LOL.

Middle Aged White Woman troothy is what you will get instead.

Most “conservatives” in the US aren’t ready for actual news.

Ukraine is about to fall, Europe is on the verge of a collapse, and Russia has an industrial base that is better than ours unless we can pull our heads out of our ass.

The rest of the world, as in everyone else, has turned against Israel and they are trying to get us to fight for them with China Russia Pakistan India Africa Egypt Europe.

The United States is approaching debt levels that have historically led to empires pulling back so all of those generals that came home from their little foreign fiefdoms might as well just stay home. The only reason China doesn’t immediately sell all of our treasuries and pull the plug is that they would crash too.

Our Navy is not in good shape. It has been criminally mismanaged. All of the flags for a couple decades running the navy belong in jail.

Did I leave anything out?; 10/3/25, 10:06 AM
Peachy said...: Exhibit A:
Why Normal Americans Do Not Trust the MSM(D); 10/3/25, 10:06 AM
Original Mike said...: My mother is going to be in for a hell of a shock if CBS starts reporting the news straight.; 10/3/25, 10:08 AM
Achilles said...: Kakistocracy said...
Was Bari Weiss a DEI hire for CBS?

Her entire career is based on being a seemingly hip, young lesbian who says things that old men like to hear.

She is honest sometimes.

Lying shitheads like you can’t handle even a little bit of truth.; 10/3/25, 10:08 AM
Kai Akker said...: She made a very successful site by doing things differently from how her last employer did them. I don't personally like or trust her or her GF, but the lesson here is that by working in a mostly contrary fashion to the legacy media, she grew an audience and people want her. Why she would want that job, I don't know. Maybe that was the only condition upon which the $150 mil supposed buyout was going to happen. She is at least closer to the kind of media a lot of people want. Good luck on your turn back into the doghouse, Bari.; 10/3/25, 10:11 AM
Peachy said...: Poor kak - cannot stand that Americans might get a choice for news that isn't corrupt lies and democrat party propaganda.; 10/3/25, 10:17 AM
Peachy said...: Bari seemed authentically moved and upset about the vicious cruel murder of Charlie Kirk.
she knows that the lies spread about Charlie by the vicious cruel left are just that - lies.

That must really piss-off and scare the vile left hive. Good.; 10/3/25, 10:20 AM
The Drill SGT said...: I became a fan after watching this. If you only have a minute, start at 35:00

https://youtu.be/1V-kyy2zoz4?t=662; 10/3/25, 10:24 AM
mindnumbrobot said...: A DEI hire is somebody given a job despite their lack of experience and/or ability. Weiss isn't my cup of tea, but she's smart, competent, and not a rabid partisan. She got the job on merit.; 10/3/25, 10:24 AM
john mosby said...: You know the country is hurting when you need a lesbian to give you straight news.

(ducks) CC, JSM; 10/3/25, 10:34 AM
Kakistocracy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/3/25, 10:35 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Weiss has won over Ellison partly by taking a pro-Israel stance.You buried the lead, which is the entire story in a nutshell.

Bari Weiss is a free speech absolutist, except those cases when she supported censorship.; 10/3/25, 10:35 AM
Kakistocracy said...: I just realized she’s the Elizabeth Holmes of news.; 10/3/25, 10:38 AM
Peachy said...: Kak - pooped:
"Bari Weiss is a free speech absolutist, except those cases when she supported censorship."

which is when. Got a real example?; 10/3/25, 10:46 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: The Vault Dweller said, "...less negative towards Israel."

I wonder if she'll get paid $7000 per post.; 10/3/25, 10:47 AM
BarrySanders20 said...: Kak sees Bari as an apostate. Though she's still a believer in some of the leftist dogma, she has rejected other central tenants of the religion and therefore must be marginalized.; 10/3/25, 10:48 AM
EAB said...: This makes me sad, overall. It reminds me of how so many vibrant blogs were swallowed up by bigger media players. It cannot help but change The Free Press and not for the better.; 10/3/25, 11:03 AM
Kevin said...: The alphabet news (D) Soviet - have a less than 8% approval rating. No one but hiveminders - trust them.

And yet the Leftist screaming in the newsroom about how she's going to "wreck" the organization will be unending.; 10/3/25, 11:04 AM
Jamie said...: I disagree with a lot of Weiss's positions - she is pretty far left on many things and I am not - but she has at least tried to open the door to hearing the side that isn't hers. Looking forward to listening to the Peterson interview. They're always a journey, and my husband can't make it through one, so I need a couple of uninterrupted hours. That used to be my walks, but I can't walk nearly that long at present, and we're living in the countryside where I can't walk at all on the road lest a distracted driver not expecting pedestrians come along and force me into a ditch - I can't do fast jlmaneuvers yet.; 10/3/25, 11:05 AM
Achilles said...: BarrySanders20 said...
Kak sees Bari as an apostate. Though she's still a believer in some of the leftist dogma, she has rejected other central tenants of the religion and therefore must be marginalized.

And if necessary Antifa will have to start working on her if she gets too troublesome.; 10/3/25, 11:15 AM
Joe Bar said...: I am cautiously optimistic about this. Let's see how it pans out.; 10/3/25, 11:19 AM
Maynard said...: Bari is an intellectually honest liberal. That is why the DNC, as voiced by Kaki, despise her. She does not much buy into their gaslighting.; 10/3/25, 11:30 AM
Jamie said...: if she gets too troublesome.

I think you might be looking for the word "uppity."; 10/3/25, 12:05 PM
mccullough said...: Bari s the Minnellial Althouse; 10/3/25, 12:10 PM
Lazarus said...: @Maynard
I didn't say that Cronkite and Rather were honest journalists. I said that they represented an earlier liberalism -- or rather, an earlier liberal politics. I don't know if Weiss is an honest journalist or if honesty is something we can expect from today's media, but if she stays to her course, she will be different from what we've seen lately at CBS and the other legacy media.; 10/3/25, 12:29 PM
ChrisSchuon said...: Larry Ellison gets control of Tik-tok and CBS News in the same month. Incredible.; 10/3/25, 12:58 PM
Achilles said...: Jamie said...
if she gets too troublesome.

I think you might be looking for the word "uppity."

Middle aged white woman does not like your tone.

And don’t you tell me to calm down.; 10/3/25, 1:25 PM
Hugh said...: I watch very little news, with the exceptions being local weather and my wife’s desire to watch the opening of NBC Nightly News (or whatever they call it now) to get the headlines. Surprising since her Dad worked for the local CBS affiliate and I can’t remember why she switched to NBC. With an honest liberal who presents both conservative and liberal content at the Free Press, I’ll try to get the wife to switch to CBS.; 10/3/25, 1:25 PM
Iman said...: dirty kakarrhea; 10/3/25, 4:55 PM
narciso said...: as part of the four amigos, taibbi schellenberger, and co, that handled the twitter files, that uncovered the censorship and deplaforming conquest she deserves a medal; 10/3/25, 5:41 PM
narciso said...: admittedly some of her recent free press roundups have been too much trying to accomodate the other side, which was in favor of the latter, imho; 10/3/25, 5:42 PM
narciso said...: the censorship complex btw is something cbs viewers know nothing about, full ouroburos,; 10/3/25, 5:52 PM
narciso said...: as they forced out sharyl atkinson and laura logan,; 10/3/25, 5:56 PM
Leland said...: If Weiss brought back Atkinson, I might be interested. Otherwise, I only give Weiss credit for being willing to listen to the other side, occasionally.; 10/3/25, 6:11 PM
traditionalguy said...: Good news indeed.; 10/3/25, 6:27 PM
narciso said...: it really is striking how aggressively ignorant cbs viewers are,
well you've seen what margaret brennan serves,; 10/3/25, 6:56 PM