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| The Devil wears Prada. |
If you want to dismiss the claims of "Jews controlling the media", you might want to not hire a controversial media personality as your head to a network.
Bari Weiss, a controversial Zionist agitator is seeking a role at CBS News.
It has the staff up in arms.
Her publication The Free Press is staunchly supportive of the apartheid ethnostate and has wrote an opinion piece denouncing the claims that a famine isn't happening.
They wrote that some people with special needs are not a part of a famine.
The publication took a lot of heat.
Paramount Skydance was approved by the FCC. President Donald J. Trump honored the merger after he settled with CBS over a 60 Minutes interview with former vice president Kamala Harris, the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the ending of Black shows like The Neighborhood.
David Ellison, the CEO of Paramount Skydance is considering buying The Free Press, ending PlutoTV, selling BET, selling VH-1, ending Dabl, raising prices on Paramount+ and adding more sports content to the networks.
The decision to give Weiss a spot at CBS News has infuriated staff.
The concerns are partly due to Weiss's history as a vocal critic of progressive media and her staunchly pro-Israel views. Her departure from The New York Times in 2020, citing an "illiberal environment," is well-known.
She was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal from 2013 to 2017 and an op-ed staff editor and writer on culture and politics at The New York Times from 2017 to 2020. Since March 1, 2021, she has worked as a regular columnist for German daily newspaper Die Welt. Weiss founded the media company The Free Press (formerly Common Sense) and hosts the podcast Honestly.
Weiss and her wife Nellie Bowles created The Free Press to counter the narratives of the progressives and Palestinians.
Weiss has been described as conservative by Haaretz, The Times of Israel, The Daily Dot, and Business Insider. In an interview with Joe Rogan, she called herself a "left-leaning centrist".
According to The Washington Post, Weiss "portrays herself as a liberal uncomfortable with the excesses of left-wing culture" and has sought to "position herself as a reasonable liberal concerned that far-left critiques stifled free speech".
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Vanity Fair called Weiss "a provocateur". The Jewish Telegraphic Agency said that her writing "doesn't lend itself easily to labels". The Times of Israel reported that her public fight with The New York Times made her a hero among some conservatives. According to The New York Times, when sharing something that informed her values at a team retreat, she chose a clip from the show Transparent, which featured a trans protagonist. Bari reportedly chose it because "she never wanted to forget the humanity of those with whom she vehemently disagrees".
Weiss has expressed support for Israel and Zionism in her columns. When writer Andrew Sullivan described her as an "unhinged Zionist", she responded that she "happily plead[s] guilty as charged". As of 2024, Weiss had visited Israel over 15 times, including after the October 7 attacks, and compared pro-Israel social media commentators to former Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky, whose years in prison made him an icon of the movement to free Jews from the Soviet Union.
In 2018, she said she believed the sexual assault allegations against U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh but questioned whether they should disqualify him from serving on the Supreme Court, because he was 17 when he allegedly assaulted Christine Blasey Ford. After backlash in the press, Weiss conceded that her sound bite was glib and simplistic, and said instead that Kavanaugh's "rage-filled behavior" before the Senate Judiciary Committee should have disqualified him.
After the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, Weiss was a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher in early November 2018. She said of American Jews who support President Donald J. Trump:
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