Among other major pro-democracy institutions and norms, MAGA's slow coup continues to focus on subverting and radicalizing the MSM. This time CBS has caved in to whatever secret threats Trump and MAGA elites have made. We can no longer count on most of the MSM to seriously oppose the fall of American democracy and rule of law to MAGA's kleptocratic dictatorship and rule of corrupt thugs.
Various sources are reporting that CBS has or will appoint Bari Weiss’s as editor-in-chief of news. This MAGA-inspired move comes after Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of her online outlet, The Free Press, which MBFC rates as a medium credibility source. Weiss is a self-described Zionist zealot. She distorts reporting about the Israel-Gaza war by downplaying the deaths and suffering. Going forward, one can reasonably expect that most CBS reporting about both Israel and MAGA-related news will be propagandized to some non-trivial extent. The bad news will probably whitewashed into something other than what it actually is.
CBS employees describe the newsroom atmosphere as “depressing”, “doomsday”, and “literally freaking out” at the prospect of an anti-woke, mendacious pro-Israel zealot-demagogue controlling what used to be one of America’s most respected broadcast news sources. CBS has fallen to MAGA.
For context, Jewish[1] billionaire David Ellison (worth tens of billions by future inheritance of the Oracle fortune), pushed for the takeover by the small Skydance with the much larger Paramount Global. Ellison promised to impose MAGA censorship on CBS reporting to get FCC approval of the merger. For the Skydance merger, where the small, Skydance took control of Paramount Global, Ellison promised political concessions to MAGA to get FCC merger approval.
The merger deal included a $16 million legal settlement to Trump and various programming commitments, i.e., censorship of the news. Ellison orchestrated Skydance's acquisition of the entire Paramount Global corporation for $8.4 billion in 2025. He didn't merge CBS with Paramount, but he bought the company that already owned both. Ellison's concessions to MAGA to secure FCC approval included eliminating DEI. Ellison hired Weiss by buying The Free Press to do MAGA's censoring and whitewashing.
The moral rot in this corrupt MAGA deal is aggressive and deeply hostile to democracy and truth inconvenient to pro-Israel MAGA elites.
Q: In addition to the CBS deal being deeply hostile to truth inconvenient to pro-Israel MAGA elites, might the deal also be deeply hostile to truth inconvenient to MAGA and Trump, e.g., in view of the MAGA news censor (the "ombudsman") imposed on CBS news reporting by MAGA (the MAGA-controlled FCC) and accepted by Ellison?
Footnote:
1. No, calling Ellison "Jewish" in this matter is not Anti-Semitism or bigotry. Those would be cheap shot lies. Ellison's religion is absolutely, positively central to properly understanding what is going on with (1) CBS and US-Israel relations and policy, and (2) the acquisition by Skydance of the demagogic The Free Press. Ellison is known to be the largest private funder of the Israeli Defense Forces and a personal friend of Netanyahu. Ellison's acquisition specifically targeted Weiss, a self-described "Zionist fanatic". Ellison did not pick a Christian nationalist fanatic. He picked a Zionist fanatic.
The Free Press, Weiss' media outlet, has systematically spread misinformation about Gaza casualties and Israeli actions. The Free Press's entire editorial approach centers on defending Israeli actions. The appointment is very likely intended to suppress pro-Palestinian coverage and promote Israeli propaganda by CBS. A bigoted demagogue is what is going to be calling the shots at CBS News from now on.
Bari Weiss, Zionist fanatic
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