CBS News staffers on possibly working with @BariWeiss: "We prefer being antisemitic, thanks." ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, September 04, 2025

CBS News staffers on possibly working with @BariWeiss: "We prefer being antisemitic, thanks."

CBS News staffers are “apoplectic” over reports that Bari Weiss — an avowedly pro-Israel journalist — is on the verge of taking a top job at the Tiffany Network, according to a report.

Weiss, the former New York Times opinion editor who quit in 2020 after blasting the paper’s “illiberal environment,” is reportedly in line for a senior editorial role at CBS as part of Paramount’s pending acquisition of her startup, the Free Press, in a deal valued at up to $200 million.

Paramount boss David Ellison, who seized control of the network in an $8 billion mega-merger with Skydance, has declined to comment on the talks. But the Puck News website reported late Wednesday that the deal is in advanced stages and likely to close soon.

“Not happy AT ALL,” one person familiar with the mood inside CBS told Status News, adding that many journalists are bracing for impact.

One prominent journalist outside CBS went even further, telling Status they would resign rather than work under Weiss, summing up the situation with a biting line: “Good night, and bad luck.”

I cannot find a single substantive criticism of The Free Press. Its articles unearth perspectives utterly absent in mainstream media and it regularly challenges the conventional wisdom. And it is manifestly not antisemitic. The articles themselves are well-sourced and well-researched. I don't have as much time as I'd like to read news online, and The Free Press is one of the few media outlets I happily pay for.

The only criticisms I am seeing is that it ignores some perspectives - it doesn't print anti-Israel articles, or articles that fawn over transgender rights, for example. But the entire point of The Free Press is to report on what the mainstream media is missing. People who want pro-Hamas articles have no shortage of outlets.

This brouhaha reveals much more about the bias of mainstream media than about the supposed bias at The Free Press. For reporters to say openly that they prefer only reporting one kind of story, ignoring complexity and other perspectives, is to admit that they are the ones who are biased and threatened by real journalism.

Which means that they are in the wrong industry.

I've been watching the media for decades now. The New York Times or AP find a new anti-Israel angle, and then the rest of the industry slavishly follow to write their own spins on the same story. Different pictures of the same kids, different interviews with the same people. This isn't journalism - it is legal plagiarism.

In only a few years, Bari Weiss managed to build a media site that gets millions of views a month and has hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers (very possibly over a million at this point).She has attracted some of the best writers out there. The Free Press engages in real journalism. It is extraordinarily impressive.

Any reporter who does not want to work for someone whose news model and business model outperforms the mainstream media is clearly not qualified to be a journalist to begin with.

And if what upsets them is working with someone who is unapologetically against antisemitism, well, that tells us about how entrenched antisemitism is in the media industry today.