Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward
Guardian: Paramount Skydance, the newly merged conglomerate which owns CBS News, has hired the journalist Bari Weiss as the network’s editor-in-chief – and acquired the Free Press, the publication Weiss co-founded in 2021 as a challenger to the establishment media, for a reported $150m. Paramount’s decision is a striking sign of US media giants’ continued rightward drift – not least because Weiss’s own recent career trajectory could be said to mirror the larger pendulum swing that has taken many corporate media companies from cautious allies of the anti-Trump “resistance” to fearful supplicants before a new Maga order. -- nordy
Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward
ReplyDeleteGuardian: Paramount Skydance, the newly merged conglomerate which owns CBS News, has hired the journalist Bari Weiss as the network’s editor-in-chief – and acquired the Free Press, the publication Weiss co-founded in 2021 as a challenger to the establishment media, for a reported $150m.
Paramount’s decision is a striking sign of US media giants’ continued rightward drift – not least because Weiss’s own recent career trajectory could be said to mirror the larger pendulum swing that has taken many corporate media companies from cautious allies of the anti-Trump “resistance” to fearful supplicants before a new Maga order. -- nordy