Baribucks

<p>Bari Weiss, the Times defector turned Free Press founder, is now poised to cash a giant check from David Ellison and seize the reins at CBS News, sending staffers running for the smelling salts.</p> <div> <div> <div> Bari, who will also be installed into an editorial leadership role at CBS News, has been portrayed as both a bogeyman for American journalism and a bellwether for a broader rightward shift in the news industry. Ellison’s pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery, which could extend her jurisdiction to CNN, has only amplified the anxiety. <span>Photo: Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Uber, X and The Free Press</span> </div> </div> </div> <div> <a href="https://puck.news/author/dylan-byers/"&gt; <img alt="" src="https://puck.news/wp-content/themes/puck/resources/assets/illustrations…; width="70"> </a> </div> <div> <div> <p>Last week, <strong>Bari Weiss </strong>and her fellow travelers at The Free Press sought to amplify the most salient, albeit obvious, point from the impassioned national discourse around Disney’s vexing suspension of <strong>Jimmy Kimmel</strong>: No matter what anyone thought of Kimmel or his remark about <strong>Charlie Kirk</strong>’s assassin, the FP argued in an editorial, F.C.C. Chair <strong>Brendan Carr</strong> could not use governmental threats to tell a private company how to run its business—a tactic known as <em>jawboning</em>. Thanks in part to Bari, the phrase has now reentered the public lexicon. </p></div> </div>