FROM FOX NEWS: Liberals are up in arms over reports that independent journalist Bari Weiss is eyeing a top role at CBS News as the new Paramount chief is inching closer to striking a major deal with her.
Puck News reported Wednesday that Paramount CEO David Ellison, who just took over the company last month after his $8 billion merger with Skydance, is at the “one-yard line” with his plans to buy Weiss’ online publication, The Free Press, and appoint her to a top editorial position at the struggling broadcast network.
Weiss, a classical liberal who famously exited The New York Times in 2020 after facing bullying by far-left colleagues, has largely been ostracized by the cultural left for The Free Press’ reporting that challenges DEI, gender ideology and media narratives against Israel during its ongoing war with Hamas.
Status newsletter author Oliver Darcy griped, “David Ellison vowed not to politicize Paramount — yet his first big move at CBS News is a major bet on Bari Weiss, one of the most polarizing figures in media.
“Weiss, the stridently pro-Israel, proudly anti-‘woke’ culture warrior, has built her brand on polarizing political commentary — supposedly the type of material Ellison signaled to reporters that he wishes to run away from.”
Darcy said hiring Weiss will “set CBS News on a course to squander its hard-earned credibility with the audience that reveres its history and demands it stand unbowed to power.”
HuffPost was equally alarmed, calling Weiss the “polarizing editor of The Free Press” and her pending position “offers a preview of how Ellison, the son of a top Trump ally, intends to shape CBS News moving forward.”
Salon called Weiss “the polarizing editor and founder of conservative outlet The Free Press,” labeling her a “controversial figure.”
Weiss is receiving a mass of support as well. People who know her call her smart and caring, others admire her hard work and success. Examples of X users celebrating Weiss follow.
Bari Weiss: Identifies untapped market void, raises funds for a start-up to fill it amid ridicule from her peers. Successfully fills void, sells company to established player for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Taylor Lorenz: this is right wing grift. pic.twitter.com/2LaIekP5iR
— Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) September 4, 2025
Journos once stewed when a fellow hack wrote a bestseller. So you cannot begin to fathom the degree of raging envy in the media elite re @BariWeiss. She was supposed to be destroyed in 2020. Now she’ll be able to buy and sell them while running a news division. It’s… delicious.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) September 4, 2025
First 3 people Bari Weiss should fire if she cares about restoring credibility to the brand: Margaret Brennan, Norah O’Donnell, and Scott Pelley https://t.co/ChxeKjmMZ6
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 4, 2025
MSM journalists gleefully thought Bari Weiss was ruined when she quit the NY Times just 5 yrs ago. Now they’re melting down bc she’s selling her news site, The Free Press, to Paramount for $100-200 million & being put in charge of CBS News.
This is why. They lie to the public to… pic.twitter.com/mATlqcXvXv
— ♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ (@fem_mb) September 4, 2025
Good summary. @bariweiss is a badass b*tch and I’m proud to know her. https://t.co/rTYwXaIzZh
— Tali Goldsheft (@TaliGoldsheft) September 4, 2025
The Free Press is one of the most impressive media companies built in the last decade.
Huge congrats to @bariweiss, @NellieBowles & @SnoozyWeiss for building something truly different. pic.twitter.com/GGnls0KYLy
— Austin Rief ☕️ (@austin_rief) September 4, 2025
In retrospect, this slasher hit peice on Bari Weiss from last year was a sort of prophecy. She is the rich Jew of their nightmares now. Perhaps she’ll buy the New York Times one day… https://t.co/BO58LoM1f9
— Saul Sadka (@Saul_Sadka) September 4, 2025
@bariweiss is in the news business, whereas the rest of the corporate media are in the narrative business.
That makes her a threat to the established order. https://t.co/3RyBRsp6eJ
— Hammerjack (@Hammerjack90) September 4, 2025
“You are literally a mass-murdering Nazi for supporting Bari Weiss!”
“You are literally a mass-murdering terrorist for attacking her!”Written by two millennials furiously typing on their laptops in opposite corners of the same coffee shop.
— Carl (@HistoryBoomer) September 4, 2025
No one asked but here’s what I think. Bari Weiss is wicked smart, preternatually strategic & the bravest publisher since Katharine Graham. Biased on Israel (she’d admit this). Neither Moses on the mount nor Goebbels.
I for one am really excited to see what Weiss does @CBS— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) September 4, 2025
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