Bari Weiss Is in a Lonely Place |
Bari Weiss is long past her supposed free speech era. The Free Press founder and CBS News editor-in-chief recently yanked a 60 Minutes segment from the air detailing horrific conditions in CECOT, the El Salvadoran prison to which Donald Trump has been deporting Venezuelan immigrants. Sharyn Alfonsi, the segment’s correspondent, said in an email to colleagues that she learned Saturday that Weiss had spiked the story after Trump officials declined to be interviewed.
It didn’t matter that the story was factually correct and had undergone a legal review. The timing made it appear that was Weiss was covering for her boss, David Ellison, who along with his father, Larry, controls CBS’s parent company, Paramount Skydance. The Ellisons, who are among the very richest men in the world, purchased Paramount earlier this year and are now after an even bigger fish: They are hoping Trump wields his antitrust power to scuttle Netflix’s purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery and allows Paramount, instead, to consume WB, creating a new entertainment-and-media juggernaut. The Ellisons, who also bought The Free Press and installed Weiss as the head of CBS News, are not yet on Trump’s good side, though. He is still fuming about 60 Minutes and how........