Bari Weiss Doesn't Want You to Read This
Fascism doesn’t start by kicking down the door. Sometimes it demands a settlement, manipulates a corporate merger, cancels a comedian, or silences the press. Some thought it couldn’t happen here. But the evidence is all around us.
Yesterday news broke that CBS is reportedly appointing Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of its news division — part of parent company Skydance Media’s plan to appease Trump. Weiss has little reporting experience — she worked in the opinion sections of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal — but has had a long history of empowering rightwing voices while silencing progressive dissent.
Weiss rage quit the Times in 2020 claiming censorship and went on to found the substack Free Press, which as David Klion wrote for The Guardian, she’s used to attack “wokeness” and carve out a role as the Trump administration’s de facto ally.
“Weiss will be an ideological commissar situated within the highest levels of the media business, wielding her considerable platform to help the White House enforce compliance in spaces that fostered resistance during Trump’s first term: the media, academia and civil society,” said Klion.
On Tuesday, President Trump stood in front of an unprecedented gathering of top military brass flown in from around the world. “I told Pete,” he bragged, referring to Secretary of Defense Hegseth, “we should use some of these dangerous cities as training ground for our military.”
https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/03/bari-weiss-cbs-rise-of-fascism/