pjmedia.com Well, well, well…2025 continues to be the Year of Things That I Didn’t Have on My Bingo Card. What makes it even stranger is that the surprises have largely been interesting and/or pleasant, not the kind that make me want to see how much liver damage I can do in a short period of time.
The media landscape has been rapidly shifting in America for a while, but that shift has greatly accelerated in the last couple of years. I mean all media here, not just the political news and commentary portion. As I wrote more than once after the Colbert news hit, that’s really what the cancellation was all about. Times change. Here in the 21st century, they change quickly.
Some news started floating around on X just as I’d finished dinner (herbed salmon and zucchini noodles) on Wednesday night. I was getting ready to plunge into the final phase of Thursday’s Morning Briefing but tossed that aside to write about this.
Paramount is preparing to shell out as much as $200 million for Bari Weiss’ buzzy media venture, The Free Press — and hand her the keys to help steer CBS News — in a move that’s rattling an already shaken news division still reeling from the $8 billion Skydance-Paramount mega-merger.
Weiss, the former New York Times opinion page editor who launched The Free Press in 2022, is reportedly in line for a senior editorial role at CBS News as part of a deal that would fold her outlet into the new Paramount, according to the Puck newsletter.
Paramount declined to comment, but Puck media reporter Dylan Byers pegged the potential purchase price between $100 million and $200 million, with sources saying the talks are in their final stages.
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