Bari Weiss isn't capturing the media. She's being captured.

Bari Weiss and the Media Landscape

America's once diverse news landscape is being remade under the control of a few.

By taking the helm of CBS News, Bari Weiss is silencing herself, a counterintuitive view of the most talked-about media executive of the year.

She's being captured.

Weiss has always positioned the Free Press, the publication she left the New York Times to launch, as the authentic voice of scrappy media outsiders.

Author's summary: Bari Weiss's new role at CBS News raises questions about media control.

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