CBS News Was Just Taken Over By a Substack (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/06/2320224/cbs-news-was-just-taken-over-by-a-substack
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/792752/cbs-news-paramount-the-free-press-acquisition-bari-weiss
> Before starting The Free Press, Weiss worked as an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal from 2013 to 2017 and later became an op-ed editor and writer at The New York Times to expand the publication's stable of conservative columnists during Donald Trump's first term. She resigned from the NYT in 2020, [3]citing an "illiberal environment."
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> Weiss started a Substack newsletter in 2021, called Common Sense, which later evolved into The Free Press, [4]touting itself as a media company "built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of great American journalism." As noted in the press release, The Free Press has grown its revenue 82 percent over the past year, while subscribers increased 86 percent to 1.5 million, 170,000 of which are paid subscriptions.
[1] https://www.paramount.com/press/paramount-announces-deal-to-acquire-the-free-press
[2] https://www.theverge.com/news/792752/cbs-news-paramount-the-free-press-acquisition-bari-weiss
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/business/media/bari-weiss-resignation-new-york-times.html
[4] https://www.thefp.com/about
We've learned a lot from Turkey and Hungary (Score:3)
Nice going America. So much freeduum
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just fyi, most esl's and IA's don't understand sarcasm.
Two Big Companies "own" local news now (Score:4, Informative)
I think there is a problem with that. The Big Two bought out all of the small stations, and now control the narrative of all of the "local" news. This is the real "scandal". The real "enemy" of the USA is Billionaires, and Big Corporations who selfishly have nothing better to do than to figure out how to get poor people to fight each other so they can make even more Billions. The Billionaires also seem to have a lot of help from Russia, China, and North Korea. The solution to this is to enforce anti-trust laws, and to value small business over Big Business. It is to value the individual, over the Corporation.
Jesus Christ that is freaky double speak (Score:2, Troll)
Diversity of opinion means more right-wing opinions.
The news media in the '90s leaned a little on the left wing for a handful of social issues. Mostly because the evidence is on the side of the left wing cause for the social issues. Trans folk are real, gay people are gay because they're born that way and abortion is healthcare. Those are just facts. And anyone with a education knows that so it's no surprise journalists knew it and reported it accurately.
But take away those handful of social issues
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The bottom line to me is that MAGAs have fully embraced White Supremacy, They tiptoe around it, and they lie, but it is what it is. Now they are full in on having a US National Military force to eradicate the "others". I was raised that people are assets, and America is an Immigrant Nation.
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> and CBS like everybody else was way right of center
So nothing is changing here? Why the Parade of Horribles then?
Perhaps the two walls of text you've written (so far) belies your genuine thoughts on this: a crack has formed in the uniform feed of establishment group-think narrative to the tee-vee watching masses. The wine women limousine liberal voice may have lost a platform. How terrible!
The good news for you is that network tee-vee doesn't mean much any longer. The bad news is you're not doing great on the new platform(s) either.
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All you got is personal attacks, and degrading statements? Typical. I am still waiting until a MAGA can listen to the question that is asked, and answer it honestly.
Excellent! (Score:1)
Finally, the MSM is beginning to crumble, so we get a more raw honest analysis of what is going on, everywhere. The MSM is the middleman, the car salesman who blacks the tires, vacuums the carpet & puts additive in the engine to hide the cracked head.
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Would you take a wild guess at what the most watched cable news channel is? [1]https://www.purdueexponent.org... [purdueexponent.org]
By definition, Fox is "MSM".
[1] https://www.purdueexponent.org/lifestyles/entertainment/msnbc-cnn-fox-news-top-shows-and-ratings-revealed/article_81bb0a6e-4109-5b19-91b8-0b3767c9b4a4.html
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What? Fox News and their cohorts aren't enough for you?
If you want "raw honest analysis" then these may help:
[1]https://adfontesmedia.com/ [adfontesmedia.com]
[2]https://ground.news/ [ground.news]
[3]https://www.snopes.com/ [snopes.com]
[1] https://adfontesmedia.com/
[2] https://ground.news/
[3] https://www.snopes.com/
Ring wing propoganda is a threat (Score:2)
This is insanity. CNN and NBC are the only independent news networks left not owned by Murdoc and the Nationalists!
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I agree. If/When Democrats get in charge.... I hope people who love the United States Constitution find a way to fact check them out in the open, and shame them out of existence. I suspect there may be a "purge", like there was in Germany after WWII, although, I am not advocating that yet.
Weiss is a dumb c*** (Score:2)
and a rabid genocide apologist
Relax (Score:3)
The Free Press is an outstanding news organization that presents fair arguments from all sides of modern political, cultural, and technological debates. This is going to be a very interesting change for CBS. Bary Weiss is a bisexual Jewish moderate, too conservative for the left and too liberal for the right.
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> Bary Weiss is a bisexual Jewish moderate, too conservative for the left and too liberal for the right.
Her face isn't female enough. Are you sure she's not really trans? [1]https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/... [msnbc.com]
Oh wait, we can't say that about conservatives?
[1] https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/bari-weiss-cbs-news-free-press-trump-editor-in-chief-rcna230666
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>> Bary Weiss is a bisexual Jewish moderate, too conservative for the left and too liberal for the right.
> Her face isn't female enough. Are you sure she's not really trans? [1]https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/... [msnbc.com]
> Oh wait, we can't say that about conservatives?
So liberals consider “trans” to be an insult, and aren’t happy with less feminine females. Huh.
[1] https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/bari-weiss-cbs-news-free-press-trump-editor-in-chief-rcna230666
wrong (Score:1)
> CBS News Was Just Taken Over By a Substack
CBS News Was Just Taken Over By a Hack
FTFY
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yes, and the ironic thing is that they will lose all of their viewers, unless MAGAs listen to broadcast stations, and I suspect that they don't. They will lose money.
Bari Weiss (Score:1)
With Bari Weiss at the helm, 60 minutes can FINALLY start to do some more special interest stories about the holocaust. There have been so few. :oP
Headlines 3 years from now: (Score:2)
CBS claims election fraud
CBS charged with slander,
CBS owes millions
Weiss fired!
Substack sold at loss
Taking bets - how many of these headlines will come true?
Which will come first?
Re:Headlines 3 years from now: (Score:5, Insightful)
CBS claims election fraud
After alleged election irregularities trump calls for election to be cancelled
Supreme court appoint trump to a 3rd term
major stroke rendres president trump a vegetable
Supreme court appoint trump to a 4th term
Unless Trump dies he's going to run for a 3rd term (Score:3)
And the supreme Court is absolutely going to let him do it using the flimsy excuse that the terms won't be consecutive. They have already shown repeatedly they could care less what the Constitution says.
Now I don't think the American people are stupid enough to elect Trump a third time but I don't think the heritage foundation and project 2025 are planning to give the American people a choice.
We have Rock solid evidence that approximately 7 million Americans got denied the right to vote using common
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The thing I find humorous about Trump running for a third term, is that Obama would be running against him. I would agree to change the Constitution to see them have a shot at it as long as they had three long debates televised wide and far, and let the best man win.
Obama can't run for a 3rd term (Score:2)
because his 2 terms were consecutive. See how that works?
Republicans can do anything. Democrats can't. There is always an excuse and they don't matter.
Because 1/2 the people on this forum would let Trump shit in their mouths if it meant a liberal had to smell it.
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> because his 2 terms were consecutive. See how that works?
There is no limit to the number of times someone can hold office. They just can't be elected to it more than twice per the 22nd amendment.
The obvious solution is to make whoever you want to become president speaker of the house and encourage the president and vice president to resign (or impeach them).
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I don't care about smell, but I'd let him or anyone else shit in my mouth for $2M after taxes.
Small price to pay for setting my kid up pretty well. I'd make that sacrifice.
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The supreme court would simply write their usual shadow docket rubber stamped with NO if Obama tried to run.
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Well, that does not seem fair... lol.
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> We have Rock solid evidence that approximately 7 million Americans got denied the right to vote using common voter suppression tactics last election.
I LOLd. What you have is rock solid evidence of 7 million fraudulent votes in 2020 when all 50 state election systems were in chaos.
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>> We have Rock solid evidence that approximately 7 million Americans got denied the right to vote using common voter suppression tactics last election.
> I LOLd. What you have is rock solid evidence of 7 million fraudulent votes in 2020 when all 50 state election systems were in chaos.
If that happened in 2020, then I would imagine the losing party would have gone to the courts. And you know what? They did. More than 60 times. And they lost every case, except for one that addressed a minor technicality that did not change the outcome.
If you find "rock solid evidence" for what you claim, then get in touch with Rudy Giuliani. I think he'd be interested.
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> And the supreme Court is absolutely going to let him do it using the flimsy excuse that the terms won't be consecutive.
The 22nd Amendment states that he can't be elected to a 3rd term, consecutive or otherwise.
But perhaps the key word is ... "elected."
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Trump signs executive order 103997 demanding the name Epstein be scrubbed from all paper and electronic media.
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For years MAGA's insisted that Democrats were Pedo's, and wanted the Epstein files released to prove it. This re-enforces my belief that what they do, that they simply accuse that the other person is doing. On a micro scale, I had a girlfriend who out of the blue accused me of cheating on her, and it turned out that she was cheating on me. Base, Basic human psychology. Guilt makes them accuse others of their wrong doings. MAGA's seem to be the Pedo's, and criminals, but instead of living up to it,
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I don't see "Profit!" in the list.
And rightly so.
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In seriousness, Trump will never cancel elections. Elections are primary tools used by authoritarian dictators to maintain power and legitimacy. Putin loves elections. Even Xi loves elections. Carefully choreographed elections with predetermined outcomes. Mussolini, like Trump, came to power in a legitimate election. He quickly worked to neuter electoral opposition. But even as he declared himself dictator, he continued to hold elections where he won the vast majority of the vote. Putin too continue
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I predict that ICE agents and the National Guard will be at every Poll (election) place in 2026, ensuring that every "Loyal American" will vote for Trump supported candidates.