Poor Bari Weiss! She’s rich, definitely, getting $150 million for the Free Press, which she and her sister Suzi and her wife Nellie Bowles created from nothing, and she’s “powerful”, definitely, now head of CBS news, one of the most storied media powerhouses around, but so what? Just as Bari Weiss grasped the controls of…
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Is Bari Weiss, Inc. aka “The Free Press” a TOTAL sh*tshow? I say “not all the time, guys!” In fact, sometimes, it’s downright girly!
In a recent issue of Andrew Sullivan’s The Weekly Dish, in the “Money Quotes of the Week” section, Andy gave us the following tweet from Harvard linguist and frequent talking head Steven Pinker, along with a one word expression of assent: “Sad to agree with Cathy Young and Matt Johnson the Free Press (for which…
When Bari Left the Times
Now that Bari Weiss has left the New York Times (“scorching” resignation letter here), the Times will almost assuredly be both woker and broker—not “broker” in the sense of financially poorer, but intellectually so. The Times is almost guaranteed to be more predictably “correct” in its coverage of the passing scene and—okay, this is going…