"It was the President's first appearance on the network since filing a lawsuit against it, claiming that, in the run-up to the 2024 election, "60 Minutes" had unfairly edited an interview with his opponent Kamala Harris. Most observers agreed that the suit had little merit, but CBS's parent company, Paramount, which was owned by the Redstone family, had agreed to pay Trump sixteen million dollars to settle the matter. At the time, the media mogul David Ellison was in the process of acquiring Paramount, an eight-billion-dollar deal that required the Administration's approval."
"Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief of CBS News, was watching the interview off camera. Just a few years earlier, she had resigned from her position as an opinion writer and editor at the New York Times, condemning the paper as doctrinally liberal and out of touch. She went on to start a Substack that would eventually become The Free Press, an anti-woke rejoinder to a mainstream media that, Weiss argued, pandered to an audience of élites who were "turning against America." Fox News and MSNBC were feeding their audiences "political heroin," she said. Elsewhere, she added, "I think there's a lot of people in this country who are politically homeless, who feel like the old labels-Republican, De"
Bari Weiss, appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News, promotes a press free from elite bias while aligning with wealthy owners more inclined to accommodate Donald Trump. CBS's "60 Minutes" conducted a Mar-a-Lago interview with Trump after Paramount paid him sixteen million dollars to settle a lawsuit and while David Ellison pursued an eight-billion-dollar acquisition of Paramount requiring Administration approval. Weiss resigned from the New York Times citing doctrinal liberalism, launched The Free Press as an anti-woke Substack, and criticized mainstream outlets for pandering to elites and leaving many Americans politically unrepresented.
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