Bari Weiss at a taping of her podcast with Sen. Ted Cruz on January 18, 2025, in Washington, DC. | Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Uber, X and The Free Press
The anti-woke backlash is coming for CBS News — in the person of Bari Weiss.
In a deal that could have seismic ramifications for the mainstream media, Paramount (CBS’s parent company) will reportedly buy the Free Press (Weiss’s online publication) for around $150 million.
It’s an enormous win for Weiss, an outspoken center-right commentator who quit an editing job for the New York Times’ opinion section five years ago, and who has
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