03/09/2026
Must read via The Nation Magazine 👇
Whether by delaying a critical 60 Minutes story about the infamous El Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration sends many deportees; commandeering the airwaves for a fawning interview with Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika; changing the CBS style guide to replace the term “assigned s*x at birth” with “biological s*x at birth” when referring to trans people; or turning the network over to an infinite string of pro-war propagandists in the wake of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, Bari Weiss keeps demonstrating that she thinks free speech should run only in a rightward direction.
People are tired of Weiss’s conservative shtick that masquerades as free speech while bulldozing those she doesn’t agree with. If we want to push forward political dialogue, we’ll have to find different tactics from the ones Weiss favors—suppressing the kinds of political stories we don’t like, or that may hinder our careers. Sucking up rarely pays off if one takes the long view of history.
Read more from Grace Byron: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bari-weiss-free-speech-cbs-news/
