John,
CBS News — once the home of Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, and the belief that tough, factual journalism makes our democracy stronger — just made Bari Weiss, founder of the MAGA-curious The Free Press, its new editor-in-chief.
In a moment, we’ll explain why Weiss’s hiring is the capstone of CBS’s right-wing drift. But first, we need your support.
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Over the past year, CBS’s fall from “the most trusted name in news” to just another MAGA mouthpiece has been breathtaking:
- It paid Donald Trump $16 million to make a baseless lawsuit disappear instead of defending 60 Minutes’ journalism.
- It fired Stephen Colbert soon after he criticized that decision.
- And it approved a merger that handed control to executives eager to gut diversity programs, install political overseers, and call it “viewpoint balance.”
- Each move chipped away at CBS’s integrity — trading credibility for protection from Trump’s wrath.
Now they’ve hired Bari Weiss, who built her brand attacking journalists as “too liberal” and “too woke.” Under her leadership, the online The Free Press became a lab for the same grievance politics that power Fox News and the MAGA online machine.
Inside The Free Press, Weiss has:
- Downplayed Trump’s authoritarian behavior while treating “wokeness” as democracy’s greatest threat,
- Platformed writers who dismissed January 6th as media hysteria, and
- Framed progressive reform as proof that the left — not MAGA — is the real danger to America.
That isn’t balance — it’s MAGA-curious journalism that flatters power and calls it “objectivity.”
John, CBS isn’t being taken over by Trump loyalists in red hats. It’s being quietly reprogrammed by executives who’ve decided that keeping power happy matters more than keeping the public informed.
Walter Cronkite once said journalism’s job was to “hold up a mirror to society and tell it like it is.”
What CBS is building with Weiss at the helm is a fun-house version of Cronkite’s mirror — where facts are twisted, power is flattered, and Trump’s assaults on democracy are treated as just another “side” of the story.
That’s why COURIER exists: to rebuild trust in news by reporting facts fearlessly, holding power to account, and keeping democracy — not corporate comfort — at the center of our mission.
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