News Brief: IDF-Funding Mega-Billionaire Buys CBS News, Installs Bari Weiss to Enforce Ideological Discipline
Added 2025-10-08 13:07:25 +0000 UTCIn this patron-only News Brief, we discuss the Ellison family's recent purchase of Paramount, CBS News, the TikTok algorithm, and potentially CNN and HBO; their installation of Bari Weiss as pro-Israel ideological enforcer at CBS; the retconning of Free Press as a scrappy upstart; and how all this means U.S. media's already horrible coverage of Palestinians is set to get much worse.
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Show Notes
Bari Weiss and the post-liberal media order
Adam Johnson | October 8, 2025 | The Real News Network
Adam Johnson | October 8, 2025 | In These Times
‘What the F**k?’ CBS News Insiders Prepare for Takeover by Self-Described ‘Zionist Fanatic’
Prem Thakker | October 5, 2025 | Zeteo
Vile Grifters Are Taking Over Establishment Media
Jack Mirkinson | September 4, 2025 | The Nation
CBS shifts to appease the right under new owner
David Folkenfilk | September 12, 2025 | NPR
Jewish business leaders transform media landscape with $8 billion deal
July 31, 2024 | Jerusalem Post
Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News
Benjamin MullinLauren Hirsch and Michael M. Grynbaum | October 6, 2025 | The New York Times
Bari Weiss outlines 10 principles that will guide her leadership of CBS News
Sara Fischer | October 6, 2025 | Axios
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Credits
Senior Producer: Florence Barrau-Adams
Producer: Julianne Tveten
Production Assistant: Trendel Lightburn
Newsletter: Marco Cartolano
Music: Grandaddy
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Comments
Thanks for another important episode even if it is a downer.
No Borders Only Podcasts
2025-10-15 01:38:46 +0000 UTCI learned to use the search function! Episode 101 concerns this.
Ciaran Colley
2025-10-10 14:01:17 +0000 UTCOn a separate but related note, has there been an episode on 'common sense' grifting in the media and politics generally? Being reminded of The Free Press's former title brought this to mind.
Ciaran Colley
2025-10-10 13:42:24 +0000 UTC
