Just when you thought the Paramount corporation couldn’t heap any more indignities on the head of poor, beleaguered CBS News—which got to spend months being abused by the Trump administration for the horrible crime of editing down an interview, before having to watch its parent company sheepishly shell out millions rather than fight it out on its behalf—multiple sources are now reporting that the venerable TV news brand might end up being handed off to former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss. This is per TheWrap, seemingly confirming a Puck report from earlier today suggesting that Paramount (now owned by Skydance, and under the watchful eye of its founder, David Ellison) is in talks to acquire Weiss’ media company The Free Press, potentially with an aim toward installing her at the top of CBS News.
As Tom Scocca noted above, Weiss is supremely untalented.
But she does have one amazing talent - to be a shameless courtier to fascist plutocrats, as I have discussed on this blog for years.
Larry David detests Bari Weiss.