KNIVES OUT: Lefty Site Giddily Touts Anonymous Smears of Bari Weiss

October 9th, 2025 2:07 PM

Doing their part to undermine and destroy Bari Weiss’s time at CBS News before she can even settle in, Oliver Darcy’s website Status posted Wednesday night a story filled with anonymous sources offering Mean Girls-esque smears of Weiss, painting her as “abrasive,” “chaos,” “erratic,” and someone who “struggl[ed] to effectively lead.” The result of these leaks, of course, are a giddy…

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CNN LOL: David Ellison Trying To Shift CBS 'Further' To The Right!

October 8th, 2025 10:47 PM

Gosh, how much further right could CBS possibly get? It already has on board hard-core conservatives including Margaret Brennan, John Dickerson, and Norah O'Donnell. Oh, wait. On CNN This Morning, lefty media analyst Sara Fischer, reporting on David Ellison of Paramount having named Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News, said: "David Ellison either has a personal or political…

Column: The Furious Freakout Over a New Centrist Strategy at CBS News

October 8th, 2025 6:00 AM

The aerobic freakout has begun inside the liberal media over the new owners of CBS News appointing “anti-woke” Bari Weiss to the new post of “Editor In Chief.” None of the CBS veterans want a new boss with a new ideology. They like pretending they don’t have an ideology. They call themselves courageously “independent.”

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Hayes, Wagner Fret Unbiased CBS Will Become STATE TV Under Bari Weiss

October 6th, 2025 4:27 PM

On Friday's All In show, MSNBC's Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner freaked out over news that independent journalist Bari Weiss will be named as editor in chief of CBS News and worried that it would become like state TV under her leadership.

Bari Weiss Officially Joins CBS News, Free Press Bought by Paramount

October 6th, 2025 12:47 PM

After months of waiting, Paramount Skydance made it official Monday in not only purchasing Bari Weiss’s intrepid and thought-provoking site The Free Press, but installing Weiss as CBS News’s editor in chief in hopes of investing in and restoring credibility to an American news brand mired in porous ratings and decades of self-inflicted wounds from ethical scandals and political bias.

CBS Reportedly Set to Name Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief Next Week

October 3rd, 2025 12:38 PM

In word first leaked out Wednesday afternoon to the New York Post, Puck’s Dylan Byers, and others, Paramount Skydance will reportedly announce as soon as Monday it will not only acquire the great team running The Free Press, but make its founder Bari Weiss the editor-in-chief of CBS News, triggering a hopeful avalanche of changes to the ratings-challenged legacy liberal network at a…

Called to the Principal’s Office: CBS to Change Sunday Show Interviews

September 5th, 2025 1:18 PM

On Friday, CBS News all but admitted they’ve lost the public’s trust when they admitted they would no longer be chopping down (read: engaging in funny business with) taped interviews — such as one Sunday with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — for their Sunday morning political talk show, Face the Nation, instead either airing them live or live to tape.

Meltdowns Incoming: CBS News Close to Buying Bari Weiss’s Free Press

September 4th, 2025 4:36 PM

Puck’s Dylan Byers dropped the bombshell Wednesday night that the rumored deal was “on the 1-yard-line” for CBS News’s parent company SkyDance to acquire former New York Times writer Bari Weiss’s indefatigable site The Free Press and grant Weiss a senior role inside CBS News.

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CBS News Scaremongers Viewers Over SNAP Work Requirement

September 3rd, 2025 11:45 PM

So much of what is reported on legacy network news these days isn’t so much news as it is anti-news- propaganda meant to disinform and/or make viewers afraid of something. Such is the case with CBS’s report on changes to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) that aired on tonight’s Evening News Plus. 

Darcy Paints Dark, ‘Teary-Eyed’ Mood at CBS Over Trump Settlement

July 5th, 2025 11:58 AM

Former conservative media reporter-turned-far-left lunatic Oliver Darcy wrote Wednesday night in his Status newsletter about the mood inside CBS News following the overnight announcement Tuesday into Wednesday that parent company Paramount had reached a $16 million settlement with President Trump over 60 Minutes’s infamous interview with Vice President Harris. All told, it read like these…

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Column: Public Trust in Media Dies in 'Groupthink'

April 11th, 2025 6:30 AM

Axios.com co-founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen appeared on the podcast “Honestly with Bari Weiss.” They both blamed the press for being too quick to fold under Biden White House pressure...but VandeHei still wanted to claim there are only a few "bad apples" that ruin it for everybody. 

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Convenient: CBS Discovers Post-Election Colleges Are Leftist Cesspools

November 26th, 2024 1:57 PM

Filing this one for CBS in the better-late-than-never category (or perhaps decades late), Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes led with a lengthy profile of the upstart University of Austin (UATX) and its classical liberal education and commitment to free speech as a way of realizing that, for lack of a better term, American universities are not only hot beds of chaos (as exhibited by the…

Why Trump’s 2-Year-Old Free Speech Agenda Video Just Went Viral

November 15th, 2024 10:13 AM

Nearly two years ago, President-elect Donald Trump taped a video outlining his plan to “shatter the left-wing censorship regime” and “reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans.” But ironically, due to Big Tech censorship, many Americans never saw the video—until now. 

The video, initially published on Dec. 15, 2022…

The Final Argument Before Election Day

October 31st, 2024 4:15 PM

This week, I had the pleasure of sitting down for a cordial debate with Sam Harris, host of the “Making Sense” podcast, to discuss the question of the hour: Trump vs. Harris. The conversation was moderated by Bari Weiss of The Free Press. Sam is, of course, an incredibly intelligent person; he’s also a person with a core set of values. He freely acknowledged his own discomfort with many of…