
In 2018, Barry Weiss, then a columnist in opinion in Timesand Books on the so -called intellectual darkness network“A” loose “coalition” was ending around the prevailing conversation. Followers of the article were literally filmed in the dark environments: glowing from under an umbrella, floating among the mill branches, half of which stand by the bushes. Although they came from different ideological backgrounds, Weiss wrote, these numbers-including Eric Winstein, the administrative director of the Peter Thil Capital Fund, who formulated the name of the movement; Joe Rogan, “MMA and Comedy Colonel” with a very common podcast; Jordan Peterson, the already best-selling philosopher-were rejected by the old media in the Trump era to express reasonable opinions. These positions were running a chain: On the pretext that freedom of expression was under attack, believing in biological gender differences, believing that forcing Muslim women to “live their lives inside the bags” is wrong. ” Its transgressions – and providing experience to some of the people I deeply opposed. “
Weiss wrote this article on something like its mid -point Times a trip. When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, she was in Wall Street Journal; The next morning of the elections, she devised her office, and realized that she felt very liberal on the paper and needs to leave. In 2017, it joined TimesAs this was definitely a problem – but after three years of constantly ridiculed (not the least of it on IDW), she resigned, and on the way out, her colleagues publicly accused of wandering in front of the Orthodoxy on Twitter and “bullying” for “wrongly”. She said that she voted for Joe Biden in 2020. But by the beginning of this year, she looked more clearly about Trump, and her previous pain rejected it as “Trump’s distortion syndrome.” “There were two things, as I think, I did not know at that moment when I was crying on my office,” she explained: “This type of liberalism that was born from Trump’s reaction,” and the fact that it would enact “many of the policies that I agreed with.”
Along the way, Fays founded Free pressA news site that was hosted on Prestack- as it is the best-selling offer for politics, with nearly one million subscribers, some of whom are eleven percent pay-who sits somewhere between the position and right, without feeling the “right of the center” as if it was constantly an accurate sign. This was the end of Weiss about the prevailing institutions, and the site has become, at least by its fans, as an expression of “its pro-Israel and anti-Al-Authekhi-Nahik puckDylan Bayers laid it recently. Many critics of Weiss will oppose that she was “hostile to the institution.” In both cases, she returned undesirable the main current: Bear’s article was the occasion of reporting that David Ellson, the son of billionaire Larry Ellson, and the chairman of Paramount Skandans, the parent company, was the parent company of CBS News, responsible for “directing the editing” of this outlet; this morning, it was officially unveiled as its editor -in -chief. (It is worth noting that it will submit direct reports To Elson.) Free press Also coming, as Ellson has acquired an evaluation of a hundred and fifty million dollars. According to a press statement, wees will continue to lead Free pressBut the site “will maintain its independent brand and operations.”
Weiss arrives at a moment that they feel almost existential for CBS News, which has accused its owners on a large scale and credibility, in recent months, of abandoning Trump. This summer, Paramount has set up a pro -filed lawsuit by Trump on a “60 -minute” section of Kamala Harris, who bothered him. Shortly later, the Federal Communications Committee agreed to integrate Paramount with Skydance Elison. More or less everyone saw these developments as connected; Stephen Colbert said on CBS – that the settlement was a “large fat of fat”, before canceling its offer directly. (Executive officials denied any Quid Pro Quo, and they cited the financial motives of Colbert’s cutting.) Brendan Car, Chairman of the Federal Communications Committee, publicly welcomed “Skydance’s commitment to make major changes in Broadcast CBS”, including “root measures”, what he described as bias. Paramount Skydance also promised to appoint the Grievance Secretary to oversee CBS news, and soon he did, as Kenneth Winstein, a kind of right -wing and the last donor of the Republican Party. Last month, the network said it would not challenge the interviews on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” show, after the administration complained of cuts to a previously registered site with Christie sleep, Minister of Internal Security.
in A modern profile for Weiss in GuardianProgressive journalist David Cleion has predicted that she would work as an “ideological commissioner” in CBS, which helps to continue to “impose compliance” with the White House line. Others participate in fear that Weiss Trump will open the object of the objective press. Some of the version of this dynamic may be turned on – as I see it, and Ellison or Weiss did not accumulate enough for us to trust in any and the opposite on the contrary. But a Maga-CBS is not a guarantee. The story is a bit more blurry than talking about storms and castle.
One can say that Free press It focuses on the left excesses to the extent that provides SUCCOR to people opposing Weis, or, at least, is used to opposing it. The right -wing activist Christopher Rovo, who is often evident in its goals, described the site as a “beautiful beauty” of the middle cells that “extremism” tries to “a type of category of blogger”. but Free press not BreitbartWeiss is not Steve Bannon. Last year, and Free press She surveyed her employees and found that her support was somewhat equal, between Trump, Kamala Harris, and no; Since Trump returned to power, the site reprimanded his administration by threatening Jimmy Kimmel, to name one example. Last week, Payers wrote that Weiss was “more stable than her critics to recognize her,” and that “it is very likely that her first brush will come with controversy when she puts her in the absolute freedom of expression” in conflict with Trump. Looking at the quality of Trump leather crepe, you do not have to think that Weiss is a central fans or a thermal student (and I definitely don’t think it is also) to see this as a reasonable collision.
Trump’s return to power, at least, is the primary context of Ellison’s independence to CBS and Weiss Employment, in specific ways – the recent TROMP pressure campaign against the network and the role of its organizers in approving the jumping deal; His apparent proximity to the Ellison family – and in the most general sense that he practiced an oath on the concept of what it means to be a “prevailing” media. (Residents on the dark intellectual web network will not be filmed, safe, to hide in the forest today). Elson may need to stay in the good blessings of the administration as he seeks to agree to other deals, including a possible attempt by Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN. Even if Ellison seemed more interested in Warner Bros. The characteristics of entertainment – and Paramount, in this regard – so that the news does, it is reasonable that he sees the employment of Weiss as throwing the bone to Trump while maintaining the ability to inflammation in Al -Basal Company. (Once again, it is not Bannon.) Publicly, Ellison pledged to give priority to “truth” and “trust” in CBS, and he said he would not politicize the network. At least some employees say they are already View this promise of no value.