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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.

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…

The far-left liberal partisans inside CBS News suffered another blow Monday morning as the network revealed they had hired Ken Weinstein, the former CEO and president of the right-leaning think tank Hudson Institute, as its ombudsman to investigate concerns about its news coverage (read: media bias).

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.

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.

Thursday marked the day one of Skydance Media’s takeover of Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, with David Ellison at the helm and his billionaire father Larry as its largest shareholder. Along with facing media reporters on Thursday, David Ellison spoke Friday on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street and doubled down on his promise to ensure CBS News lives “in the truth business…

Writing Monday night for his site Status, liberal media authoritarian Oliver Darcy — who has called for conservative media to be abolished from cable providers — celebrated a letter from the Freedom of the Press Foundation demanding Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr be disbarred and investigated by the D.C. Court of Appeals for, well, existing and alleging he hates…

The liberal media had a meltdown over Paramount putting an ombudsman, or “watchdog,” in place after President Trump’s $16 million settlement in his lawsuit over CBS’s 60 Minutes Kamala Harris interview edit. MSNBC showcased its bias on Tuesday’s Morning Joe when journalists rallied together over the outrage of CBS agreeing to monitor its bias and claimed that decision was “un-American.”  

MSNBC’s Ari Melber, on his show The Beat Monday, hosted FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to speak out against the recent Paramount-Skydance merger. Featuring the obviously inflammatory headline “TRUMP VS. 1ST AMENDMENT,” it was clear which way Melber and his guest leaned. The two discussed how the FCC’s typical role in the merger was really an attack against our Constitution.

PBS host Christiane Amanpour fretted over “the state of freedom of speech in America” with reporter David Enrich, author of the anti-Trump book Murder The Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful. Enrich has become a popular figure on PBS and NPR of late, warning of the Trump administration’s “chilling effect” on media. Amanpour accused Trump of…

Former CBS Evening News co-anchor Connie Chung surfaced on Friday afternoon’s CNN News Central to pitch a series of unhinged rants over Skydance Media’s impending purchase of CBS’s parent company Paramount Global. Chung declared it “the end of CBS as I knew it,” claimed CBS News won’t have minorities like her, insisted “honest, unbiased, fact-based journalism” would no longer happen…

Late Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it had “approved Skydance’s $8 billion acquisition of Paramount Global and its subsidiaries, including the ultimate parent company of the CBS network of owned and operated broadcast television stations, by granting a series of applications that transfer FCC licenses and authorizations.”

Actress Sandra Oh put Stephen Colbert in a tough spot on Monday when she became the first guest to appear on The Late Show after CBS decided to pull the plug. As Oh wished that a plague would descend upon CBS and its parent company, Paramount, Colbert had to look right into the camera and insist that he did not share such views.

Stephen Colbert tried to suggest on Wednesday’s The Late Show that there was something contradictory or even hypocritical in CBS deciding to cancel him while parent company Paramount settled in a recent lawsuit with President Trump that could lead them to giving up around $36 million.