CBS News Installs Free Press Founder, Aims for 'Radical Centrism'
Paramount announced its purchase of Bari Weiss's 'The Free Press' and promptly installed Weiss as CBS News editor-in-chief. This merger clearly signals CBS's commitment to presenting 'unbiased' information, defined, apparently, by the outlet that published articles like 'The Miseducation of America' (which critiques 'wokeness' in schools) and, more recently, was praised by Benjamin Netanyahu for
its unwavering reports on Israel's actions in Gaza. One might wonder what 'journalistic standards' CBS is now upholding, considering these recent editorial priorities. Bringing in a figure who has famously championed a "cultural war" against what she perceives as leftist dogma, and whose platform aligns with powerful, hawkish foreign policy interests (as evidenced by Netanyahu's public endorsement
of her work, particularly her steadfast support for his government's narratives), is quite a choice for a major news network. This appears less like a pursuit of journalistic balance and more like the mainstreaming of a specific, aggressive ideological stance, conveniently packaged as 'free speech'—exactly the kind of 'viewpoint diversity' that ensures certain narratives remain dominant,
unburdened by inconvenient facts or dissenting opinions.