Billionaire Seeks 'Balance' on CBS News with Bari Weiss
When billionaire David Ellison looks at CBS News, a network that dedicates significant airtime to endless wars and unquestioning support for Israeli policies, he apparently thinks: 'Not enough Bari Weiss.' Weiss, a former New York Times editor, has built a career presenting a 'heterodox' viewpoint, which often translates to defending right-wing narratives and demonizing critics of Israel, cloaked
in 'free speech' advocacy. Her arrival would not introduce 'balance,' but rather reinforce existing power structures while framing dissent as extremism. This isn't about media diversity; it's about validating a particular brand of pro-establishment punditry. Ellison, whose father Larry Ellison is a major GOP donor and has expressed strong pro-Israel sentiments, seems to be curating a media
landscape that prioritizes certain narratives. One might wonder if network news, a primary purveyor of wartime narratives, requires more figures who conflate criticism of the Netanyahu government with antisemitism, especially when independent media scrambles to report on the civilian casualties meticulously ignored by Weiss's preferred outlets. How much more 'both sides' can you get when one side
controls the narrative and the other controls the bombs?