MacDonald: A New Day Dawns at CBS News

Anyone who pays attention to the media, any media, surfing headlines on preferred streams, knows that Bari Weiss is the newly minted News Chief at CBS.

They also know who Bari Weiss is and that this married lesbian is a veteran progressive reporter who was excommunicated from the Left-Wing Group-Think “Tanks” doing business as America’s newsrooms for thinking they had some obligation to tell the truth, even if it wasn’t the truth everyone wanted.

Old school liberal reporters are not “conservative,” but they can be a bit more liberal (in the classic sense) and are in short supply. Thankfully, the Biden years and the COVID inquisition loosened a few of them from the cold, bitter grasp of what passed for mainstream journalism, and they work for themselves, doing quite well, challenging the left’s media orthodoxy.

Weiss, who was ahead of the media-defection curve, leveraged her excommunication into a multimillion-dollar private media platform, raking in hundreds of millions in subscriptions. A platform that she sold to whoever owns the company that owns CBS as part of a deal. A big payday, and she landed the gig as the alpha/omega of editorial decisions at CBS News. She is the grand poobah.

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