Overview
- Bari Weiss is now editor-in-chief of CBS News after the network integrated her outlet The Free Press in a deal reported at roughly $150 million.
- At the Jewish Leadership Conference, she promoted a transparency model that puts conflicting worldviews on air to argue in good faith and said she aims to speak for the “75 percent.”
- She highlighted a Free Press debate between Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch on gun policy as an exemplar, describing them as representing the center left and center right.
- Journalists and commentators mocked the example and questioned her judgment, with some citing Dershowitz’s Epstein ties while rejecting him as a “charismatic” voice for mainstream audiences.
- A tweet widely cited in coverage noted the Dershowitz–Loesch debate drew about 860 views in its first five hours online, while a Mediaite column defended Weiss’s approach as transparent pluralism rather than “both-sidesism.”