In 2018, Bari Weiss, then an opinion observer in OnceIN wrote about the so -called intellectual dark webThe free “Alliance of heretics”, which “forced the end to run around the main conversation.” The adherents were photographed for the article in literally dark settings: voicing from under the umbrella located among the mossy branches, which were half specified by bushes. Despite the fact that they came from various ideological layers, Weiss wrote, these figures, including Eric Weinstein, managing director of the venture fund Peter Til, who “half joked” invented the name of the movement; Joe Rogan, “MMA Color commentator and comedian” with an extremely popular podcast; And Jordan Peterson, already a bestseller-philosopher can be subjected to inherited media in the Mass media in the Trump era for expressing reasonable opinions. These positions worked in the range: claiming that freedom of speech was attacked, believing in biological gender differences, thinking that forcing Muslim women to “live in their life inside the bags, it is wrong.” Many in the group built their own channels. Weiss was sympathetic, but did not quite devote himself to communication. “Being attacked by the left left,” she wrote, “I know that I run the risk of focusing on excessive concentration on its excesses – and providing support to some people that I speak deeply.”
Weiss wrote this article in something like her point Once journey. When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, she was in Wall Street Journal; In the morning after the election, she sobbed at her table and realized that she was feeling too liberal for paper and she needed to leave. In 2017, she joined OnceWhere it was definitely not a problem – but after three years after the permanent top (not least over the IDW subject), she left and, at the exit, publicly accused her colleagues of squeezing before orthodoxy on Twitter and “mockery” for its committing an “unlawful word”. She said that she voted for Joe Biden in 2020. But by the beginning of this year, she sounded more conciliatory about Trump, rejecting her previous suffering as “Trump's Disorders Syndrome”. “I think that at that moment I did not know that I did not know when I cried at my table,” she explained: “The type of non -liberalism that was born from the reaction to Trump, and the fact that he would accept“ a lot of politics with which I agreed. ”
On the way, Weiss founded Free pressA news site posted on Sublack, where it is the best-selling policy offering about a million with a half subscribers, some eleven percent of which are paid, which are located somewhere between the center and the right, without the “central”, felt as an invariably accurate label. It was its own end of the Weiss around the main institutions, and the site became visible, at least, its fans, as an expression of its “pro-Israeli and anti-ultrasound worldview, not to mention its broad damage to combat disposal”, as this WasherDylan Bayers recently expressed thisThe field of Vais is disputed by the field that it has ever been the Anti-Existle. In any case, she undoubtedly returns to the mainstream: the reason for the Bayers article was to report that David Ellison, the son of billionaire Larry Ellison, and the recently executed chairman of Paramount Skydance, planned to put Weiss in the “editorial direction”; This morning she was officially represented as the editor -in -chief. (It is noteworthy that she will obey Ellison directly.) Free press It also goes when Ellison acquired it with a registered rating of one hundred and fifty million dollars. According to the press release, Weiss will continue to head Free pressBut the site will “support its own independent brand and operations.”
Weiss arrives at that moment that feels almost existential for CBS News, whose owners were widely and reliably accused of Couto in Trump in recent months. This summer, Paramount settled a growing lawsuit, which Trump filed in the editorial office in the “60 minutes” segment about Kamal Harris, who is dissatisfied with him. Soon after, the Federal Public Relations Commission approved the merger of Paramount with the Skydance Ellison. More or less everyone saw these events as related; Stephen Kolbert said – on CBS – that the settlement was a “big fat bribe” right in front His show was canceledThe field (the leaders rejected some kind of QUID Pro Quo and brought financial motives to reduce Colbert.) Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, publicly welcomed the “commitment of Skydance to make significant changes to the once legendary CBS broadcasting network,” including measures to “eradicate” what he described as anticipated. Paramount Skydance also promised to appoint an Ombudsman to observe the news of CBS, and Kenneth Weinstein, the right type of thought dance and the recent republican party, soon came. Last month, the network stated that it would no longer edit the interview on its Sunday show “Cover the Country” after the administration complained of reducing the previously recorded seat with Christie Nooy, Minister of Internal Security.
IN The recent Weiss profile in GuardianThe progressive journalist David Klion predicted that she would act as an “ideological commissar” in CBS, helping in the future to “ensure compliance” with the White House line. Others share the fear that an experienced weifer is storming the citadel of objective journalism. A certain version of this dynamics may well play – as I see it, neither Ellison nor Weiss has accumulated enough benefits from doubts to trust the promises on the contrary. But Magician-Filled CBS is not a guarantee. The story is a little darker than talking about the manichan about storms and citizens.
It could be said that Free press It will focus on the excesses of the left to such an extent that it provides support to people who confront, or at least used to counteract. Right activist Christopher RuhoWhich is often useful about his goals, called this site as “beautiful outside the and far” for left-handed elites, which he is trying to “radical” in “a kind of run-up class”. But Free press No BreitbartAnd Weiss is not Steve Bennon. Last year Free press He interviewed his own staff and found that his support was somewhat evenly divided between Trump, Kamala Harris and not one of them; Since Trump returned to power, the site reproached his administration for the naked threat of Jimmy Kimmel to name one example. Last week, Bayers wrote that Weiss is “more than her critics, take care of recognition,” and that “it is likely that its first brush will come with contradictions when her absolutism of freedom of speech” puts CBS in conflict with Trump. Given the skin quality of the skin to the mount, you do not need to think that Weis Centrist or absolutist from free speech (and I, of course, do not believe that it is too) to consider this as a plausible clash.
Trump’s return to power is at least an important context for absorption of Ellison CBS and hiring Weiss in such a way that it is specific – the recent TRUMP campaign for pressure against the network and the role of its regulators in approving the Skipdance transaction; His apparent proximity to the Allison family – and in a more general sense that he applied the right gravitational attraction to the concept of what means that the media is “basic”. (It is safe to say that the inhabitants of the intellectual dark web will not be depicted today in the forest.) Allison must remain in the good grace of the administration, since he seeks to approve other transactions, including a possible application for the Warner Bros proposal. Discovery, which owns CNN. Even if Allison seems to be more concerned about Warner Bros.“Entertainment properties – and Paramount's, in this regard – what he does in the news, it is likely that he believes that he hires Weis how he throws Trump's bone, while maintaining a denial in a political company. (Again, she is not Bannon.) Publicly, Allison promised to prioritize Pravda and Trust in CBS and said that he was not politicizing the network. At least some employees say that already consider this promise as uselessField
