After months of speculation, Paramount Skydance has bought the Free Press, Bari Weiss' rightwing Substack site the Free Press, which maybe made $14M last year, for $150M in cash and stock and made Weiss the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, which has for the last few years also includes the news shops at the owned stations (including KCBS on channel 2 in LA's newscasts branded as sister station "KCAL News" on channel 9, which is about like Fox branding KCOP in LA on channel 13 as "Fox 11+" [that would be KTTV])--needless to say, the worst feelings of CBS News staff have been verified as Murrow and Cronkite do the whip and the nay-nay in their graves:
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