RIP CBS News
The Bari Market
With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.
seriously, there is no evidence whatsoever that Weiss is capable of writing a news story, much less running a news organization. the actual quality of the writing at The Free Press is barely a notch above AI slop.
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Objectivity and expertise isn’t really a thing American millionaires and billionaires care about.
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She’s such a poser.
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as someone said, the death of expertise.
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The South Park episodes are going to be amazing.
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Giving the peuple what they (think they) want 😒
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But people at the NYTs refused to go out with her for coffee!
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Sorry @canaries.co.uk
Canceling Paramount+ immediately -
Bari's entire raison d'être is that she flatters the powerful people so they can self congratulate about the range of discourse they allow in the room.
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It’ll look like the federal govt. A bunch of people will resign en masse/be fired and they’ll be replaced by Benny Johnsons, if at all
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CBS has always been an afterthought to me and my family. Something to have on in the background just to not feel lonely.
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I would argue that this is the one instance in which AI is the notch above
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Do you think that the Ellisons of the world realize this and don’t care because it’ll own the libs or are these guys just so pilled that they’re oblivious?
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Sometimes I seriously regret not becoming a professional right-wing grifter. We'd still be in this mess but I'd be extremely rich. If I ever pivot, everyone please run cover for me.
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And as also not even popular! The Free Press YouTube channel only has 300k subscribers. Lol
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Yep, a complete midwit
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Will never forget her being sent to Australia on assignment and coming back to write that in Australia everyone is always on vacation and on the beach and there are no culture wars
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she writes like a gifted 8th grader
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But that’s the point
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anyway, it is very bleak to realize that a great many people with money and power think Bari Weiss is a kind of journalistic ideal
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But can you imagine the PARTIES they are going to be able to throw with that money
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She will hire a real head to run it. She will provide direction funneled to her by the oligary.
That's what I'd do, except for the latter part.
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If we’re lucky she’ll air Sybil the Soothsayer.
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the traffic stats for the free press are bleak. at least half of their traffic comes from within the substack ecosystem. very little traffic comes from "earned" sources like search of social media.
3 million month visits. bsky.app/profile/niff...
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All they need is a constant source of world shaping headlines. The rest is filler.
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Goes for the thinking, too
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Oh I bet it can become actual AI slop once there's nobody to call them on it.
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What is it about her!! Seriously even if you desperately want a "I'm a heterodox thinker who'll tell you why everything you believe about the left is true" surely you could do better for $100,000,000.00
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Right, so it's a notch above the level Ellison would find acceptable.
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maybe if you think of it as a PR firm for pollution
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Glad I already stopped watching 60 Minutes, it's good practice.
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I remember her from undergrad. She got attention by accusing every Middle Eastern Studies professor of anti-semitism and demanding they be reprimanded/fired.
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so many reporters will be dispatched to college campuses looking for leftist excess it will blot out the sun.
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Are you sure it's NOT AI slop?
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Above?
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There is, however, evidence of her incredible capacity for writing propaganda. Their objectives are clear.
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Man. How the fuck is Bari fucking Weiss going to be in charge of somebody like John Dickerson??? It’s infuriating.
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Is her moron sister gonna be all over TV now?
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She's had a lot of success laundering far right, crankish views as a sort of reasonable centrism for people brave and smart enough to challenge the establishment, and I'm a little worried she can replicate that success with a new, larger audience.
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Paramount putting the BS in CBS News
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One of the funnier things about the FP is that they would get a “scoop” and then let their source write an unedited first person article about it(the Missouri trans care whistleblower, the NPR conservative) instead of having a reporter report out the story. That’s just a letter to the editor!
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personally I'm concerned she won't have the time to run a top tier news organization and a world class university concurrently
